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Musical Theater Vanity Packet: "Adolf Digs a Challenge Tap!"By Matt Jackson, December 2013Special thanks to Jacob Reed for playtesting1. This composer-lyricist duo included the exhortation "Polish up the Mercedes!" in one opening number. In that show, this pair has ensemble members make the noises of birds, trees, frogs, and breezes as a helpful goddess appears, and a hotel is destroyed as a tree bursts out of it. A matronly character adapted by this duo watches two children play in the sand, and later sings "There was a time / our happiness seemed never-ending." This duo has ensembles literally sing "La la la" etc. while describing grandes hommes on an isle governed by four gods in "We Dance," and before the hearing of "distant (*) music / Simple and somehow sublime" in another opening number. This duo musicalized a trial presided over by Judge Yertle, at which an incubated egg hatches an "Elephant-Bird"; they also musicalized the trashing of a black musician's Model T in a novel adaptation with lots of historical characters. For 10 points, name this composer-lyricist duo behind Once on This Island, Ragtime, and Seussical.ANSWER: Stephen Ahrens and Lynn Flaherty [generously prompt if the player gives only one name]2. A movie named for this locale was reset in Chicago seven years later for a remake called Wabash Avenue and contains the blackface number "Miss Lulu from Louisville," performed by Betty Grable. The rising theme F-G-A-C-E flat-A flat is introduced by an unaccompanied clarinet midway through a three-segment dream sequence set in this place, accompanying a pas de deux after the “Great Lover” displays himself in a boxing ring. Songs sung in this locale include "Devil Take the Hindmost," from a 2010 musical. Rajah Bimmy's Harum-Scarum is found in the "Real" version of this place. This locale contains a building called Phantasma, where (*) Christine Daaé performs, in Love Never Dies, the Andrew Lloyd Webber sequel to Phantom of the Opera. For 10 points, name this peninsula where Ivy Smith finally reunites with Gabey in Bernstein's On the Town, a New York City mainstay whose attractions include the Cyclone.ANSWER: Coney Island [prompt on "New York City"]3. In one scene, people cry over this character as the orchestra plays treble B flat major chords over a low bass G-flat on the piano. This character compares herself to Iola Stover and reacts to being called "sunshine" by saying "looks more like rain to me" in her first scene. This character, who "ain't no pile of rags at all" according to Newt Lee, is the first to sing "He calls my name / I turn my head / He has no words to say" before three other girls take up the theme, and inspires the hymn "There is a fountain filled with blood." A lavender shirt is given to this girl's mother by prosecutor Hugh (*) Dorsey in a courtroom where the black ex-convict Jim Conley also testifies about carrying her. This character's death inspires Frankie Epps to fight for "the old hills of Georgia" in a white hood. For 10 points, name this 13-year-old Georgian factory girl in Jason Robert Brown's Parade, a historical figure whose murder is blamed on Leo Frank.ANSWER: Mary Phagan [accept either underlined name]4. "The Woman With [one of these items]" is a Mary Main biography of Eva Perón, which Tim Rice used as source material for Evita. Atop a wagon, Doris Day utters sets of three exclamations about these items in "Deadwood Stage," the opening number of the movie Calamity Jane. In another musical's second act, this item is used in a scene prior to the exclamation "Die if you want to, you innocent puppet!" during a reprise of the "Heaven on their (*) Minds" guitar riff. The use of another of these items leads a character to mention a "hot red devil" and "soft white cool virgin palms" after orgasm; that item inspires the cry of "No! God! Please! Deliver me!" from Judge Turpin as he uses it on himself in a deleted scene of Sweeney Todd. Due to Anna's influence, Rama IV refrains from using this type of object to discipline Tuptim in The King and I. For 10 points, name this weapon which is used 39 times on the protagonist of Jesus Christ Superstar.ANSWER: whips [accept lashes]5. A song in this musical breaks from the traditional 32-bar AABA form with two 7-bar A sections, a [6+6+2] 14-bar B section, and an 11-bar modified-A ending; that D-major duet in this show is sung by a fat man on a hammock and his sister. A priest in this show delivers a speech beginning "Thou shalt not kill," which eventually becomes "Thou shalt not…" and then "Thou…shalt…War! War! We're going to war!" This musical's characters include a violinist-painter duo, Yasha and Dauber. A woman who has "coffee and" for breakfast in this show sings about an illusory nickel under her foot, and its male protagonist, who first appears onstage in the eighth of its ten scenes, sings "That's thunder, that's lightning, and it's gonna surround you." Traditionally accompanied only by a (*) piano, this show's characters are brought into court, even though most are on the Liberty Committee. In this show, the prostitute Moll meets Larry Foreman, who organizes against the factory boss Mister Mister. A 1999 Tim Robbins film dramatizes the original opening of this musical, in which a cast directed by Orson Welles had to move theaters and sing from the audience. For 10 points, name this Depression-era union-leftist musical by Marc Blitzstein, which defied a shutdown order from the Federal Theater Project.ANSWER: The Cradle Will Rock6. According to dialogue in one song, this character "doesn't have the good things and he doesn't have the bad things, but he doesn't have the good things either," and he resembles "the Seagram's building." This man stands on a balcony as Peter asks him "Have you ever had a homosexual experience?" This character comforts a woman who imagines "floating in the Hudson with the other garbage," and his name corresponds to a motive consisting of the descending intervals A flat-F and A flat-G flat. This man's acquaintances include the Puerto Rican (*) Marta, and Sarah calls him "angel". In a 2006 revival of the show containing him, all other characters doubled as the orchestra, though Raul Esparza finally used the piano while asking for "Someone to hold you too close" in the finale, "Being Alive." This man skips a birthday party thrown for him by his married friends. For 10 points, name this 35-year-old bachelor played recently by Neil Patrick Harris, from Sondheim's Company.ANSWER: Bobby [or Robert; or Robbie]7. One character with this first name sings "If you climb on my back, then we can both fly;" that character, whose music box is discovered in the song "I Dreamed a Dance," was the first Broadway role originated by Aaron Tveit, who later played Enjolras in the Les Misérables film. This character introduces the phrase "catch me I'm falling," interrupting Dr. Madden's sessions, in the first musical by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, and sings "I am the (*) one who helps you." Natalie had a brother of this name, whose memory comforts their bipolar mother Diana. Sounds from another character with this name inspire a fake preacher to sing "Once I was headed for hell" and "now I'm ready to trim my lamp." For 10 points, give this name of the imaginary son in Next to Normal and an angel told to "blow" by Reno in Anything Goes.ANSWER: Gabriel [or Gabe, I guess; the Next to Normal character's full name is Gabriel Goodman]8. This performer, whose solo albums include Build a Bridge and Go Back Home, sang "Come Home" in the role of Marjorie Taylor on the first complete recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Allegro. This performer said that nothing could beat "February 14, 2001," the birth date of her daughter Zoe, as the best day of her life as she accepted a Tony Award. This actress originated a character who remembers "only darkness and pain, the anger and pain, the blood and the pain" from bearing a baby that has its "daddy's hands." More recently, this two-time co-star with (*) Brian Stokes Mitchell told Carrie Underwood to "ford every stream." For 10 points, name this woman who originated the role of Sarah in Ragtime, a black singer-actress who starred as Bess in the 2012 revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, and appeared in the televised 2013 staging of Sound of Music as Mother Abbess.ANSWER: Audra McDonald9. One song in this show has measures in (3+3+3+4) 13/8 time in the choruses, though the verses are straight 4/4. For its Broadway run, designer John Napier had the ceiling lowered and the proscenium removed in the Winter Garden Theater. This show's second act is subtitled "Why Will the Summer Day Delay--When Will Time Flow Away." Earlier, it contains the made-up word "effanineffable" in a song whose lists include (*) "Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter." A fake Italian operatic duet, "In Quella Tepida Notte," interrupts a segment of this show before "the Chinks…swarmed aboard" a pirate ship remembered from Gus's past acting career. An old female in this show sings a tune resembling Ravel's Bolero before a discarded tire lifts her up to the Heaviside Layer. For 10 points, name this review set at the Jellicle Ball, a T. S. Eliot adaptation by Andrew Lloyd Webber.ANSWER: Cats[NOTE: This tossup is in no way an endorsement of Cats. Cats is an abomination unto the LORD.]10. Precursors to these objects called bozze were prepared by Sebastiano Serlio during the Renaissance. At Yale University, a pioneering method for using these objects was taught by Stanley McCandless. David Cunningham obsoleted the Leko by inventing a standard one of these devices sold by ETC, which often has a built-in "C clamp." These objects, which include the ubiquitous Source Four, are modified by metal sheets called (*) "gobos." In Pippin, Catherine makes a request of these objects before improvising the song "I Guess I'll Miss the Man." The "strip" type of them is often used with a cyclorama. For 10 points, name these ubiquitous components of technical theater which include many inventions of the Kliegl brothers, Fresnels, and follow spots.ANSWER: stage lights [or lighting devices; be lenient and accept answers such as gels or colors or backdrops on the leadin, which technically describes bottles full of colored chemicals that had light shone through them to produce color on theatrical backdrops]11. In a 2013 revival, this character is "falling falling falling" in an added comedy bit played by Colin Cunliffe, and is last seen being put inside a treasure chest by actress Rachel Bay Jones. This character's first line is "It is a little late…but as long as you're interested…"; his last line, "Hope you get to heaven," responds to inquiries about future place in "Valhalla, or wherever you infidels go". After this character's role is done, the protagonist pines "I thought there would be more plumes…" A small picture of this Visigoth was dwarfed by a background pic of Daniel Brach-Neufeld on the schedule for LOCKOUT, the 2013 Georgetown Day high school tournament. This character, who lost his third battle, talks to the protagonist before the song "Simple Joys" and after the war song (*) "Glory." For 10 points, name this minor character from the ensemble of Pippin, a highlight of Matt Jackson's high school theater career, which is somehow capable of vision and speech despite its prior gruesome detachment.ANSWER: the talking severed head from Pippin [prompt on "Pippin ensemble" or "player" or similar]12. This lyricist inspired the summary comment "There is a statute of limitations on gratitude" from one collaborator, according to a 2012 biography by Gary Marmorstein. This man worked on a show whose revival omitted a discussion of Nietzschean individualism and the racist "All Dark People Is Light On Their Feet." ASCAP banned saucy lyrics from one of his shows from radio for over a decade, including "Horizontally speaking, he's at his very best" and "Thank god I can't be oversexed again!" This man's alcoholism, short stature, and closeted homosexuality, which all fed into suicidal depression, were profiled in the biography A (*) Ship Without A Sail. With the maternal grandfather of Floyd Collins' composer Adam Guettel, he wrote "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" for Pal Joey, also penning the line "Is your figure less than Greek?", and coining the word "unphotographable" for Babes in Arms. For 10 points, name this lyricist of "My Funny Valentine" and "Manhattan," whose early death in 1943 ended the first partnership of Richard Rodgers.ANSWER: Lorenz Hart 13. Playwright Christopher Durang broke his knee playing one of these characters in a scene alongside Book of Mormon co-composer Bobby Lopez, during a 2013 concert rendition by alumni at Yale University. These characters compliment a "very elocutionary" fellow who "does not spit when he talks." They report on Mr. Gumpy's off-stage actions in a stage book written by Sam and Bella Spewack. These employees of Mr. Hogan elbow each other when mentioning (*) "Sapph-ho-ho," and appear because Bill Calhoun wrote his boss's name on a $10,000 I.O.U. These men describe girls who "will not give a damn or a damnlet" after helping "Mr. Gray-ham" deal with Lilli Vanessi in Baltimore. They assure you that "they'll all kowtow" if you "kick her right in the Coriolanus." For 10 points, name these tough-talking men who get a double encore of "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" in Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate.ANSWER: the two gangsters from Kiss Me, Kate [accept close synonyms such as gunmen or thugs; prompt on "First Man and Second Man", which is how the script refers to them]14. At a key point in this event, the chorus sings the pitches C4, G4, A4, and E5 over a low F in the orchestra, which all crescendo and abruptly cuts off. In the original depiction of this event, one participant arrives seeking help to fix a broken-down wagon, and another says "There is no such thing as love…It's all just selfishness and self-seeking" before dozens of written-out m-dashes interrupt the dialogue. This event, which we later see simultaneously with Father Kaulbach delivering a (*) sermon, is later described as "something you keep in a box on the street / and it's longing for a home". Before this event, the painted tree on the floor of the stage lifts and becomes a platform held up by four chains in "The Mirror-Blue Night"; as it begins, the chorus opines "There is love in heaven; all will be forgiven" in the number "I Believe." For 10 points, identify this life milestone which concludes Act I of the 2006 rock musical Spring Awakening.ANSWER: the sex scene between Melchior Gabor and Wendla Bergmann in Spring Awakening [accept loss of virginity; or Melchior impregnating Wendla; accept the rape scene from Spring Awakening due to clues from the play; prompt on "hookup" or other vaguer answers which do not specifically refer to penile-vaginal penetrative intercourse]15. In the scene after this song, its singer exclaims "See…you look like you should speak French!" A Broadway revival performance of this song was interrupted the words "How dare you? …Who do you think you are? Get them out!" as Patti LuPone ranted at an audience member taking illegal photos. In a quiet middle section, its singer thinks of "scrapbooks full of me in the background" and remembers "battin' (*) zero," later vowing "starting now, I bat a thousand." This song's namesake claims "this people's got it, and this people's spreadin' it around" after opening this song by exclaiming "Here she is, boys! Here she is, world!" Ten consecutive rapid-fire lines start with "Mama" in this song, which ends on seven exclamations of "For me!" Its references to earlier songs include "How do you like them egg rolls, Mr. Goldstone?" and a selfish variant on "everything's coming up roses." For 10 points, name this concluding number by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim, a breakdown-tastic soliloquy from the mother in Gypsy.ANSWER: "Rose's Turn" 16. One resident of this city complains that too many songs "mimic the phallocentric narrative of verse, chorus, verse, chorus, climax, fade out, smoke a cigarette, turn over, snore, and never call me again." The beret-clad woman Sudabey joins Desi and The Youth in a collective from this city whose slogan is "What's inside is just a lie," the Nowhaus, in Stew's 2008 show Passing Strange. Another resident of this city grabs the crotches of Bobby and Victor to tell which twin is which, and a third asks "Suppose simply keeping still means you manage until the end?" after betraying a (*) boyfriend who gave her a pineapple. In this city, a girl performs in a gorilla suit in "If You Could See Her" and a British transplant asks dwindling audiences "What good is sitting alone in your room?" For 10 points, name this city home to the Kit Kat Club, where Sally Bowles sings "Maybe This Time" in Cabaret.ANSWER: Berlin17. This character freaks out over the breaking of a glass bottle in a scene of dialogue set in a bar. This character is denied "free love" by a woman because she has a train to catch; that woman also denies his offer to help carry her bag. This man opens a song by imagining "Men in the (*) mines to dig the iron, men in the mills to forge the steel, men at machines to turn the barrel". This character, the first to enter the Proprietor's gallery, sings first in "Gun Song." The Balladeer recounts this man making his way to the "head of the line" by the Temple of Music. For 10 points, name this character from Stephen Sondheim's Assassins whose targeted president shares a name with the high school on Glee, and who interacts onstage with fellow anarchist Emma Goldman.ANSWER: Leon Czolgosz18. One man in this profession has his offer of help rebuffed by the phrase "Like a bandage can help a corpse." Another man with this job marries a girl from Odessa after he is taken back forty-one years in time by a talking clock on his wall which sings "Na, na na na, na na na…you'll get to be happy!" A Christmas story by Jamie Wellerstein features one of these from Klimovich named Shmuel in The Last 5 Years. Another man of this profession gave a pledge described as "Unheard of! Absurd!" and (*) "unthinkable." That man inspires a made-up dream sequence beginning "A blessing on your head," and is celebrated in the Jerome Robbins-choreographed "Bottle Dance" at his wedding. For 10 points, name this profession of Motel Kamzoil, who gets a sewing machine after marrying Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof.ANSWER: tailors19. In this piece, one man exclaims "Respect the cruller, and tame the donut!" while playing with his food; his girlfriend later complains "his penis got diseases from the Chumash tribe." Songs in this piece include "I'm Standing In the Way," and later, an actress who requested few singing lines in this piece interjects "I think this line is mostly filler." In this work's shortest song, a crowd exults that launderers got the mustard out of their shirts. In another part, a series regular sings "You make me com – plete" while levitating as cunnilingus is performed on her offscreen. A stolen necklace leads to bouts of song and dance in this episode, which eventually make people (*) combust. A red-faced demon kidnaps Dawn in this episode, in which Dawn's sister reveals she actually went to heaven after her death in the season 5 finale, and kisses Spike as literal curtains fall. For 10 points, name this first attempt at composing from Joss Whedon, the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.ANSWER: "Once More, With Feeling" [prompt on answers such as "the musical episode of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" or "Buffy season 6, episode 7" until read; prompt on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" until "episode" is read]20. This character has a solo song that ends with him singing a C# over a B minor chord which lacks a third, and begins with an ostinato of repeated quarter-note F#-G dyads. This character was played by Shuler Hensley in a video-recorded 1999 London revival, alongside Hugh Jackman. Musicologist Raymond Knapp called this character "America's id." This character echoes the word "wood" in a song noting that "it's summer and we're (*) running out of ice." He is killed by a picture-viewer called the "Little Wonder," which contains a hidden blade; previously, in a dream ballet brought on by smelling salts, he wins a fight first choreographed by Agnes de Mille. This man sings "Lonely Room" after he imagines his own funeral at his rival's behest. For 10 points, name this man who bids on basket at the box social, a villainous farmhand who tries to take Laurie from Curly in Oklahoma!ANSWER: Jud Fry [accept either underlined name]BONUSES1. This group includes Consuelo, whose comment about arriving with "arms open" is met with the retort "You came with your pants open." For 10 points each:[10] Name this section of the ensemble which initiates a Mambo in a high school gym, choreographed by Jerome Robbins. Several of them also grab their skirts during a dance set to a prominent example of hemiola.ANSWER: the Sharks' girlfriends [or the Puerto Rican girls from West Side Story; prompt on "Puerto Ricans" or even "Sharks"][10] This type of establishment employs the most prominent Puerto Rican girl in West Side Story, María. The props in "One Hand, One Heart" are taken from this place's inventory.ANSWER: a dress shop [or a bridal shop; accept Madame Lucia's dress shop][10] This album by the prog rock band Yes quotes the theme from "America" in its final 10-minute song, also called "America." It depicts a globe on the cover and its other songs include "The Fish (Schindleria Praemuturus)".ANSWER: Fragile2. This woman exchanged law suits with Michael Cohl and Jeremiah Harris, two producers, over royalties stemming from a show whose numbers include "Picture This" and "If The World Should End." For 10 points each:[10] Name this embattled director who resigned from Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark in 2011. She got her start working with large puppets.ANSWER: Julie Taymor[10] This character, whose gender was switched from the original, sings the added songs "Shadowland" and "He Lives in You" in Julie Taymor's somewhat more successful staging of The Lion King.ANSWER: Rafiki[10] In early previews of Spider-Man, these mundane items were stolen by the henchmen of the goddess Arachne during the song "Deeply Furious." Inexplicably, they were needed to help her "descend from the astral plane."ANSWER: shoes3. Answer these questions about some forebears of American musical theater, for 10 points each.[10] In Follies, this unseen character wrote the song "One More Kiss" for Heidi. This Austro-Hungarian composer's The Merry Widow exemplifies the operettas which influenced early American musical comedy. ANSWER: Franz Lehár[10] These pianists-for-hire played newly-released sheet music for store customers and publishers to promote 1910s pop hits from Tin Pan Alley. Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin both wrote their own tunes while employed in this role.ANSWER: song pluggers[10] Some of the oldest song-driven comedy in America was minstrelsy and blackface. This vaudeville performer of "Nobody" and star of Bandanna Land was unusual among late blackface performers in that he was a black man, who darkened his skin further.ANSWER: Bert Williams [or Egbert Austin Williams]4. Not every musical can be a hit. Answer these questions about notable Broadway flops, for 10 points each.[10] This Sondheim show, whose lasting audition staples include "Good Thing Going" and "Not A Day Goes By," lasted only 16 performances, in part because a cast of teenagers had to play 45-year-olds at the start of a story told in reverse chronology. ANSWER: Merrily We Roll Along[10] This 1988 flop featured an infamous, poorly-explained white staircase which the title character descends while covered in blood.ANSWER: Carrie[10] After finding success with Hair, Galt McDermott composed this disastrous adaptation of Everyman, whose tempting devil is named Zero. Its weird choices included gutting a proscenium theater to create a dirt floor in the round, and replacing its 23-year-old lead with 11-year-old black boy after he quit.ANSWER: Dude: The Highway Life[McDermott's next show, Via Galactica, is also hilarious. It built trampolines into the set to represent low gravity.]5. This sequence features the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who gets dubbed "Emanci-mothafuckin-pator of the Slave", and ends with a sung rendition of Hamlet's "What a piece of work is man" speech. For 10 points each:[10] Name this sequence of scenes which takes a gruesome turn during the number "Three-Five-Zero-Zero." It begins as doors are locked, blinds are pulled, lights are low, and flames are high.ANSWER: Claude Hooper Bukowski's trip in Hair [or Claude's hallucination[s]; or the space walk; prompt on "Hair" or "Act 2 of Hair"][10] Earlier, the ensemble of Hair performs this controversial act in low lighting during the Act I finale, "Where Do I Go", as Claude refuses to burn his draft card.ANSWER: publicly stripping nude [or disrobing; or getting naked, or similar; prompt on "Be-In"][10] This older character in Hair takes a picture of the Tribe saying the word "Speed!" and shares a theory about "the male's emergence from his drab camouflage" before revealing that she's actually a man dressing in drag.ANSWER: Margaret Mead [accept either name] 6. This man is lovable despite not being "one of the God-like kind of men / With a giant brain and a noble head / Like the heroes bold / In the books" the singer has read. For 10 points each:[10] Name this man who "can't play golf or tennis or polo" and "dresses far worse than Ted or Jim." This fictional man from a song sung at the Trocadero nightclub is largely a reminiscence of the singer's absent husband Steve.ANSWER: "Bill"[10] "Bill" is sung by the mixed-race entertainer Julie in this pioneering 1927 musical by Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern, whose finale reprises "Old Man River". ANSWER: Show Boat[10] At the DC tryout, this producer of Show Boat ordered that the plaintive black ensemble number "Mis'ry's Comin' Around" be cut, enraging Hammerstein, who wove the tune into the overture to retaliate against this man. ANSWER: Florenz Ziegfeld7. The music history of these people was traced in its entirety in the 1996 show Bring In da Noize, Bring In da Funk. For 10 points each:[10] Name this ethnicity which made up the entire cast of the 1975 L. Frank Baum adaptation The Wiz.ANSWER: black people [or African-Americans; or even Negroes; don't accept less polite terms][10] Steps to performing this action include "Pick your right foot up / when your left foot's down." The funky song titled for this action recurs in The Wiz every time a new member joins Dorothy's party.ANSWER: "Ease on Down the Road" [accept any equivalents which refer to easing on down the Yellow Brick Road; prompt on "follow the Yellow Brick Road" or other non-The Wiz-specific answers][10] This 1970 black musical focused on a "New-Fangled Preacher Man" who tries to save the Big Bethel church while touring the Jim Crow South. Its librettist, Ossie Davis, had earlier written a play about its title character Victorious.ANSWER: Purlie8. This man's sex-charged routines often featured inward-bent knees, raised shoulders, and the tipping of black bowler hats, perhaps inspired by his early baldness. For 10 points each:[10] Name this man whose wife Gwen Verdon starred in Chicago and Sweet Charity under his direction, a dictatorial director-choreographer.ANSWER: Robert Louis "Bob" Fosse[10] In this Fosse number from 1954's The Pajama Game, three dancers raise and lower their hats while making a short-short-long rhythm on the sounds "[click] [click] fzzzzzz", and say "I need your love to keep away the cold."ANSWER: "Steam Heat"[10] This alleged lover of Fosse awkwardly starred alongside Verdon in the quasi-biopic All That Jazz. Something of an heir to his choreography, she played the first Roxie in the Chicago revival and choreographed in his style for that revival and the 1998 revue Fosse.ANSWER: Ann Reinking9. Answer these questions about people imagining better futures for themselves on stage, for 10 points each.[10] The protagonist of this British musical asks "Who can say where she may hide? Must I travel far and wide?" in "Where Is Love?" It begins with lines of orphans imagining "Food, Glorious Food" before receiving gruel.ANSWER: Oliver![10] In the Little Shop of Horrors musical, Audrey imagines living "somewhere" with this Lockean secondary quality, in a "tract house" with Seymour far from Skid Row. Though she never gets her "big, enormous, twelve-inch screen," she does get her wish in ironic fashion. ANSWER: somewhere that's green [She is eventually devoured by Audrey II, a notably green plant, just after a reprise of the song "Somewhere That's Green".][10] In a 1985 musical, this teenager hopes for a purpose in "Waitin' For the Light to Shine". This character sings "Worlds Apart" with an adult male friend, and sets off on a new journey in the finale of his show, "Muddy Water."ANSWER: Huckleberry Finn [accept either underlined name][from Big River]10. Answer these questions about academic writings on musical theater, for 10 points each. [10] A St. Louis-based director of this surname wrote the popular Broadway history Strike Up the Band, and an "insider's guide" called Deconstructing Harold Hill. A Chicago economist of this surname co-names a theorem about the irrelevance of capital structuring for firms with an Italian.ANSWER: Miller [Scott Miller and Merton Miller][10] This UCLA musicologist wrote about the "brazenly artificial" pastiche of Rocky Horror in The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity. He equated the "folksy" ethos with a denial of indigenous genocide and the Nazi drive for lebensraum in The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity.ANSWER: Raymond Knapp[10] This man's academic work includes study of how the add6 chord became a consonant sonority in Strauss waltzes, a trend picked up by Cole Porter. This bowtie fan is currently using his dictatorial conducting technique to direct a buzzer quartet at the University of Chicago.ANSWER: John Yi Lawrence11. This man's fans proclaim that he "loves the Irish and the Jews," and he almost causes a war with France when he rejects Southern belle Diana Deveraux. For 10 points each:[10] Name this running mate of Alexander Throttlebottom, a presidential candidate whose rather contentless campaign is themed around Love.ANSWER: John P. Wintergreen[10] Wintergreen's campaign is central to Of Thee I Sing, a Pulitzer-winning musical for which this composer was denied a share of the Pulitzer. This man composed "I Got Rhythm" and An American in Paris.ANSWER: George Gershwin[10] After four bars of intro, these two chromatic notes are sounded in the second chord of the title phrase in the title song "Of Thee I Sing," creating a chord which transitions between the tonic and the subdominant. Name both. Scale degrees are fine.ANSWER: flattened seventh and raised fifth [or flat seven and sharped five; or b7 and #5; from what I can tell this song is written in C, which would make the notes Bb and G#]12. Answer these questions about the collaborations of Lerner and Loewe, for 10 points each.[10] At this locale from My Fair Lady, Eliza shocks a stuffy, binocular-sporting crowd by shouting "Come on, Dover, move your bloomin' arse!"ANSWER: Ascot race course [prompt on "the horse race" or other insufficiently specific answers][10] This title setting of Lerner and Loewe's first hit show, featuring "Come To Me, Bend To Me," is a town which phases into reality on one day out of every hundred years.ANSWER: Brigadoon[10] This young man is the last new character to appear onstage in Lerner and Loewe's Camelot. Arthur knights him and asks him to retell the story of the show for posterity.ANSWER: Sir Tom of Warwick [it's heavily implied that this kid is Thomas Malory, so accept either of those underlined names too]13. A flown-in mirror in Franz Liebkind's Springtime for Hitler, reflecting a rotating human swastika, parodies this man's predilection for top-down shots of huge, radially-symmetric arrangements of dancers. For 10 points each:[10] Name this man whose stage experience fed into elaborate 30s Hollywood dance numbers, such as "The Woman with the Tutti Frutti Hat" from The Gang's All Here and "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" from 42nd Street.ANSWER: Busby Berkeley [or Busby Berkeely William Enos][10] These women title a 1933 movie which brought Berkeley to fame for the number "We're In the Money," later seen in the Broadway version of 42nd Street. Kanye West rapped about one of these people who "got a baby by Busta" over Jamie Foxx's imitation of Ray Charles.ANSWER: gold diggers [or Gold Diggers of 1933][10] This extravagant setting is used for the 10-minute penultimate number of the Busby Berkeley and Jack Cagney film Footlight Parade, preceding "Shanghai Lil".ANSWER: a pool [or a tank of water; or underwater; or an aquacade; or "By a Waterfall"; or the "human waterfall"]14. Let's pretend Tom Hooper's 2012 Les Mis movie was an art film for just a second and answer some questions about its cinematography, for 10 points each.[10] The first shot of the movie shows this sort of object being pulled by hundreds of prisoners at Toulon.ANSWER: a ship [or a boat][10] Many reviewers attacked the film for its overzealous adherence to this heuristic from photography. It states that the photographer should imagine a tic-tac-toe grid overlaying their prospective image, and put the focal object at one of the four internal vertices.ANSWER: the rule of thirds[10] A customer wearing this outfit gets fleeced in the film's staging of "Master of the House." The original wearer of this outfit is ranted at by a Marlene Dietrich parody who "was just seventeen when [he] rode into town" in Songs for a New World. ANSWER: a Santa Claus suit15. Even before the advent of the musical theater performance major, many Broadway stars and composers got their start working on shows at college. For 10 points each, answer these questions about lasting college theater groups:[10] This full-length, original musical, which goes up every April at Columbia University, was written in various years by Terrence McNally, Herman Wouk, Oscar Hammerstein, and Richard Rodgers.ANSWER: the Varsity Show[10] Traditional shows at this college, where undergrad Leonard Bernstein played piano four-hands for fun with undergrad Donald Davidson, include the "Hasty Pudding Theatrical," featuring a kick-line of men in drag.ANSWER: Harvard University [or President and Trustees of Harvard College][10] This still-extant undergraduate theater group at Carnegie Mellon staged "Pippin, Pippin", a two-act historical grand opera by Stephen Schwartz which was later reworked and Fosse-lized into the show we have today.ANSWER: Scotch n' Soda Theatre16. Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony acceptance rap had a line parodying this song, which is preceded by the singer imagining a "Bonnet flapping…yapping…Ruff! ...chicken…pastry…" as if he were a dog. For 10 points each:[10] Name this solo song which mentions a "window" from the real world to the world of art, where "there's a part of you always standing by, mapping out the sky." It expresses the singer's inability to stay close to Dot while performing the title action. ANSWER: "Finishing the Hat"[10] "Finishing the Hat" is sung by this Sondheim protagonist, who paints a pointillist masterpiece on the island of La Grande Jatte.ANSWER: Georges Seurat [or Georges][10] This posthumously-assembled, three-person musical features a parody of the song "Sunday" from Sunday in the Park with George, set in a "blue, silver, chromium diner." ANSWER: tick, tick…BOOM! [by Jonathan Larson]17. Answer these questions about fraught or problematic love stories from the Rodgers and Hammerstein canon, for 10 points each.[10] This 1945 show, set in Maine, features Julie Jordan rationalizing domestic abuse at Billy's hands, telling her mother the hit was "jest as if he – kissed my hand". Billy's ghost returns for its finale, "You'll Never Walk Alone."ANSWER: Carousel[10] This young soldier from South Pacific falls in love with the Tonkinese girl Liat. He dies rushing into battle shortly after defending his racism in "You've Got To Be Carefully Taught."ANSWER: Lieutenant Joe Cable [or Joe Cable][10] This least successful Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, a John Steinbeck adaptation, ran into trouble since it couldn't directly state whether its leading lady Suzy was a prostitute. It includes the marine biologist Doc and the ambiguously brothelly Bear Flag Café.ANSWER: Pipe Dream18. Make Max Bialystock proud by answering these questions about real musical theater producers, for 10 points each.[10] This super-accomplished guy produced Fiddler, Forum, Cabaret, Company, and Pacific Overtures, and directed Sweeney Todd and the 1994 Show Boat revival, among other things, during a six-decade-long career which he began as an assistant to George Abbott. ANSWER: Harold Smith "Hal" Prince[10] This British producer made the "megamusical" into a global brand in the 80s, amping up the role of product tie-ins for shows such as Miss Saigon and The Phantom of the Opera.ANSWER: Sir Cameron Mackintosh[10] This family, originally from Detroit, bought the Detroit Opera House about a century ago under patriarch David. Its namesake Organization owns nine Broadway theaters, including an eponymous theater on West 41st Street, currently showing Newsies. ANSWER: Nederlander family [largely David T. Nederlander, James M. "Jim" Nederlander, and James L. Nederlander]19. The 2007 Donmar Warehouse production of Parade, in London, added this instrumental effect to the finale, where it lasts for 8 measures as Frankie Epps holds out the word “home” and the rest of the parade-watchers fill in. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this orchestral effect. It also occurs after the words "The sweetest flowers, the fairest trees / Are grown in solid ground" in the third verse of "Make Our Garden Grow".ANSWER: a sudden tacet in the orchestra as vocal parts continue [or, like, "they stop playing"; I'll admit I don't know what the technical term is for this. Accept any answer indicating that the orchestral accompaniment to singers has suddenly cut off; or dropped away even though the vocal parts are still singing; prompt on "a cappella singing" or "unaccompanied singing"][10] The 8-part vocal harmony in "Make Our Garden Grow" ends this frequently-revised Bernstein operetta, in which "Glitter and Be Gay" is sung by Cunegonde in an Inquisitor's home.ANSWER: Candide[10] The New York Philharmonic has played the Candide overture with this unusual reduction about two dozen times since 1990, the year of Bernstein's death.ANSWER: the orchestra plays without a conductor [or no conductor; or conductorless]20. In Passing Strange, The Youth's mom is seen in monologues of this sort before her death. For 10 points each:[10] Name this medium which, in another musical, also conveys the job-related naggings of Alexi Darling and the adage "So let her be a lesbian…there are plenty other fishies in the sea" from Mrs. Cohen.ANSWER: voice mails [or unanswered phone calls; or answering machine messages; prompt on "phone calls" or similar][10] Five voicemails punctuate a 1996 musical titled for this economic quantity, which, according to In the Heights's Sonny, is also "escalatin'" in Washington Heights.ANSWER: rent[10] Lucas protests high rents and unjust housing policy in this yet-to-open 2014 musical, starring Anthony Rapp and Idina Menzel. In this Kitt/Yorkey show, Elizabeth lives two diverging timelines under pink and blue lighting after making a key life choice in a park.ANSWER: If/Then ................
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