1. Which genre of musical theater is a production that is built around a storyline and was common from the 1920s onward?
2. _____ was synonymous with musical theater during the first three decades of the century, featuring a light story, romantic leads, and culminating in a marriage or two by the end.
3. ________ moved to New York to hone his skill for hyping big-name talent, eventually becoming a producer of enormous revues.
4. A later development for the musical was the trend toward large-scale works. Which musical theater genre relied on huge casts, scenes, and sets to enthrall audiences?
5. Which composer was mentored by Oscar Hammerstein II, contributed lyrics alone to West Side Story (1957), and eventually became a leading composer of musical theater?
6. Which type of musical is one where music, lyrics, visual elements, and dance are all tied to the narrative in some way, usually to advance the plot?
7. Which form of musical theater has no narrative and instead uses a variety of comedy skits, over-the-top chorus numbers featuring lines of girls, and featured high-power stars?
8. What landmark 1943 show was composed by Richard Rodgers, was a fully integrated musical, and featured a storyline using American farmers and cowboys?
9. ______ was an open-form stage entertainment, with comedy troupes performing alongside musicians, trained animal acts, magicians, and acrobats?
10. Which type of large theater production featured lots of songs and dances, enormous casts, and extravagant sets?
11. Which Broadway-famous composer wrote Oklahoma! and was the first person to win the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards)?
12. Which genre of musical theater coincided with the dominance of popular music by the end of the 1960s?
13. What fundamental component of musical theater production involves the act of working together?
14. Which term refers to smaller musical productions that take place in theaters other than the large Broadway venues (with less than 500 seats), and that also may refer to the shows themselves?
15. What type of theater created in the 1840s featured white performers wearing makeup to appear as caricatured blacks, singing songs about the south and acting in comedic skits?
16. This most common type of 21st-century musical takes songs that are already hits and weaves them together to form some type of plot.
17. What is it called when a song is not written by the “main” composer and lyricist for a show but is instead incorporated into the show at the discretion of the producer?
18. Which genre of musical theater was a fully staged work that used spoken dialogue instead of recitative and had easier vocal parts than standard opera?
19. Which actor and composer got their start in minstrel shows, but eventually ended up as part of Ziegfeld’s Follies, and was the first African American to appear in a show alongside white entertainers?
20. Which 1927 show was considered pivotal in the history of musical theater and featured a plot that included the serious topics of sex and race?