A Tin Pan Alley composer known for bringing ragtime to broadway and white audiences for the first time in his musical "Watch Your Step."
Who is Irving Berlin?
100
Originally a play with underscoring to enhance certain moods, this theatre form has come to be known for it's stock characters and drama.
What is Melodrama?
100
This decade is famously known for Prohibition, women's suffrage, and the Jazz Age.
What are the 1920s?
100
A way for new composers to make money by playing other writer's music in order to sell their sheet music.
What is song plugging?
100
Considered the weakest part of a musical during the 1920s and 1930s.
What is the book?
200
Musical-writing team known for their innovative and outrageously successful shows, including "Oklahoma!", "The King and I", "Carousel", and "The Sound of Music."
Who are Rogers and Hammerstein?
200
Featured actors in blackface playing to African American stereotypes in America's first form of a variety show.
What are Minstrel Shows?
200
Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, these elegant and spectacular revues featured dancing women in bedazzled costumes and feathers.
What are the (Ziegfeld) Follies?
200
The convention of having the source of music in a show/movie visible to the audience.
What is diagetic?
200
A theme in musical theatre that breaks the convention that the main couple must always end up together.
What is an "Almost Love Story"?
300
A sibling musical-writing team, known for their "folk opera" centered around an African American couple, "Porgy and Bess."
Resulting in an upswell of inventions that made labor easier, this era also led to the movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
A common practice in early musical comedies, single songs by one songwriter/team were placed into another songwriter/team's show.
What is interpolation?
300
This song element contains the main message and central melodic theme.
What is the Chorus?
400
Broadway director known for influencing the importance and development of dance in his shows and for mentoring director/choreographers like Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse.
Who is George Abbott?
400
A form of theater that featured a simple plot with more focus on spectacle and getting laughs than a cohesive or dramatic plot.
What is a musical comedy?
400
This was the name given first to the location of most NYC music publishers’ offices, and later to the style of popular songs many of these publishers sold.
What is Tin Pan Alley?
400
Troupes of actors hired by theaters to work on all the shows produced by that theatre.
What are stock companies?
400
This choreographer influenced dancing on Broadway by using dance to express emotions and reflect character.
Who is Agnes de Mille?
500
Producers and stars of the first musical plays to present African Americans without stereotypes, even as upper-class elites or royals.
Who are the Hyers Sisters?
500
A theatre form that evolved to remind the new immigrants of their homelands and help them transition into their new lives as Americans.
What is ethnic theater?
500
This theatre form became popular during the Depression in response to the hardships of life and general cynicism of the American people.
What is political satire?
500
A musical in which the songs, dances, and book all work together to create a well-made story with serious dramatic goals.
What is an integrated musical?
500
This show started the Waltz "craze" in the United States in the early 20th century and became famous for its merchandising success.