MUSICAL THEATRE TEST

NAME_____________________________

Date_________ 6. The first show to advance the story

through the songs was:
a) Oklahoma!
1. This accidental hit is generally b) The Black Crook
considered to be the “first” musical. c) ShowBoat
a) Oklahoma! d) The Zigfield Follies
b) The Black Crook
c) ShowBoat 7. As part of Broadway’s Golden age,
d) The Zigfield Follies they wrote such hits as “My Fair
Lady,” “Brigadoon,” & “Camelot.”
2. The job of the Librettist is to: a) Rodgers & Hart
a) Write the screenplay b) Lerner & Loewe
b) Write the music c) George & Ira Gerswhin
c) Write the lyrics d) Kern & Hammerstein
d) Write the “book”
8. He was the man that introduced
3. HE was considered to be the first “Ragtime” to Broadway:
great “Song and Dance” man.” a) Irving Berlin
a) George M. Cohan b) Jerome Kern
b) Fred Astaire c) Cole Porter
c) Gene Kelly d) Ira Gershwin
d) James Cagney
9. He was the first successful librettist,
4. The first musical with a “Rock and composer and lyricist:
Roll” score was: a) Stephen Sondheim
a) Cabaret b) Andrew Lloyd Weber
b) Company c) Leonard Bernstein
c) West Side Story d) Meredith Wilson
d) Hair
10. Coming out of Vaudeville, he made
5. The first Choreographer/Director it on Broadway with “Little Johnny
Combo was: Jones,” and “Yankee Doodle Boy.”
a) Jerome Robins a) Florenz Zigfield
b) Harold “Hal” Prince b) George M. Cohan
c) Anges DeMille c) Irving Berlin
d) Bob Fosse d) Oscar Hammerstein
11. All of these men developed West
Side Story except:
a) Leonard Bernstein
b) Hal Prince
c) Stephen Sondheim
d) Bob Fosse
e) Jerome Robbins

12. This Show is considered to be the

start of the “Golden Age” of the
Broadway Musical:
a) Oklahoma!
b) The Black Crook
c) ShowBoat
d) The Zigfield Follies