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Theatre originated from this country.
What is Greece?
100
He was the first actor.
Who is Thespis?
100
This is the term for a musical with no spoken word.
What is a Ballad Opera?
100
This show is considered the first rock musical.
What is Hair?
100
Name thee stock characters in Roman theatre.
Who is the virgo, leno, adulescen, senex?
200
This republic absorbed and adapted theatre after winning a war in early 2nd century BC.
What is Rome?
200
These two british men were considered the most influential musical composers of their country.
Who are Gilbert and Sullivan?
200
These are the three main offshoots of musical theatre.
What is burlesque, vaudeville, and opera?
200
This place is known as the musical theatre capitol of the world.
What is Broadway?
200
This person was the only one that danced in middle ages theatre.
Who is the Devil?
300
The God Dionysus was the Greek God of these items.
What is wine, wine making, and ritual madness?
300
This man was the one of the most famous choreographers in America.
Who is Bob Fosse?
300
This was the first origin of dance in the US.
What is the hambone?
300
Gilbert and Sullivan wrote this nautical adventure.
What is the Pirates of Penzance?
300
This musical was a modern re-telling of Romeo and Juliet.
What is West Side Story?
400
When the Italians adapted Greek theatre, they created this form of musical theatre.
What is Opera?
400
These men were the most influential American composers.
Who are Harrigan and Hart?
400
These are the two types of theatre during the middle ages.
What are liturgical and vernacular?
400
Name three Rogers and Hammerstein Musicals.
What are Carousel, Oklahoma, and the Sound of Music?
400
This was the name of the festival theatre started at in Ancient Greece.
What is the City Dionysia?
500
Musical theatre had its beginning in America when slaves were forced to perform in these.
What are Minstrel Shows?
500
This man helped France take musical theatre and develop it into ballet.
Who is Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx?
500
This kind of music became popular during the beginnings of musical theatre in the USA.
What is the blues?
500
Name and describe the first American made Musical.
What is Showboat, which covered topics like divorce, alcoholism, and race issues?
500
There was a division in the 90s in Broadway between these two sides, that wanted this.
What is Rent and Disney. Disney wanted a cleaner musical experience, and Rent wanted to show life as hard and difficult.