Song Types
"People Will Say We're In Love"
What is a Quasi Love Song?
Utilizes stock characters
Operetta
What is poetic justice?
Known for his tap dancing, started in the TOBA circuit
Who is Bill "Bojangles" Robinson ?
Based on a novel by Edna Ferber
What is Show Boat?
"My Boy Bill"
"The Magic Flute" by Mozart
What is Comic Opera, or Opera Buffa?
The young female stock character in melodramas
What is the Ingenue?
Started his career managing a muscle-man
Who is Florenz Ziegfeld?
Written by George and Ira Gershwin, revived with changes by Suzan-Lori Parks
What is Porgy and Bess?
A showstopper to highlight a performer's unique talents
What is a Specialty song?
This replaced recitatives in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas
What is the patter song?
The Black Vaudeville circuit
What is the TOBA circuit? (Theatre Owners Booking Agency)
The Yankee Doodle Boy
Who is George M. Cohan ?
No legs, no jokes, No chance!
What is Oklahoma?
"All That Jazz"
What is a Show Grabber (or Show Opener) ?
Lowbrow satire of Opera Seria
What is Ballad Opera?
The three main company members in the first half of a minstrel show?
Who are the Interlocutor, Mr. Tams, and Mr. Bones?
Annie Get Your Gun was her brainchild
Who is Dorothy Fields?
The brainchild of a crazy psycho producer named George Pascal?
What is My Fair Lady ?
The tune audiences will be humming when they leave the theatre at the end of the night
What is an 11 O'clock number?
Where was the first Opera House?
What is Venice?
Originated in saloons in the Bowery district of NYC
Vaudeville
Never learned to read or write music
Who is Irving Berlin?
The song "Carefully Taught" is from which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical?
What is South Pacific?