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1
Many Vaudeville acts were modeled after acts from minstrel shows.
A)True
B)False
2
One intention of Burlesque is to treat something inane or ridiculous with mock dignity.
A)True
B)False
3
American operetta composers Gilbert and Sullivan wrote several operettas, like H.M.S. Pinafore, that remain successful even today.
A)True
B)False
4
Revues today often feature the music of one composer.
A)True
B)False
5
George M. Cohan, a self-taught musician, was a zealous American patriot who Americanized Broadway theater.
A)True
B)False
6
George M. Cohan was born on the Fourth of July, just as he claims in the song "I'm A Yankee Doodle Boy."
A)True
B)False
7
Black composer Will Marion Cook studied with Antonin Dvorák.
A)True
B)False
8
Many early musicals had all-black casts and were popular and successful.
A)True
B)False
9
With the Crash of 1929 Broadway witnessed a period of substantial decline.
A)True
B)False
10
Richard Rodgers was forced to work with Oscar Hammerstein II after Lorenz Hart died.
A)True
B)False
11
Oklahoma! changed the course of the Broadway musical.
A)True
B)False
12
West Side Story is essentially the retelling of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
A)True
B)False
13
Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim was first drawn to being a composer of concert music.
A)True
B)False
14
Stephen Sondheim contributed to the lyrics of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story and Jules Styne's Gypsy before embarking on his own work.
A)True
B)False
15
"A Little Night Music" by Stephen Sondheim is based on the story of the music of the same name by Mozart.
A)True
B)False
16
Stephen Sondheim employs the Japanese theater art form of "kabuki" in his musical "The World of Suzie Wong."
A)True
B)False
17
In 1951 it cost $360,000 to mount "The King and I." Its revival in 1996 cost $5.5 million.
A)True
B)False





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