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<= IRCstivus '14 Musical Questions: Three Weeks, Will It Ever Be Worse? =><= by Matt Jackson =>Warning: Things have names. According to Cinema Sins, a “large triangle window” in this polity “is a f*ck you to Sleep,” and the “ENTIRE movie” set here “only happens because NO ONE says the obvious s*it they should say at the right time!” The symbol of this polity is a gold crocus on a green and purple background. A native of this place insists that “foot size doesn’t matter” in a rapid dialogue about her fiance. A film set in this place contains (*) “Vuelie,” a vocal song composed in the style of a traditional joik which begins "na, na, na HEY-ah." A person from this place “dream[s she’ll] find romance” during sight gags parodying John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo and Jean-Honore Fragonard's The Swing. Two central fountains adorn this place’s town square, which eventually becomes a skating rink. For 10 points, name this fictional kingdom extorted by the Duke of Weselton and by Hans as the title status condition affects it, the home of Princess Anna in Disney’s Frozen.ANSWER: Arendelle CastleA song titled for this attribute, which mentions the "old songs that still cry / old blood that won't dry", is sung as Judge Rosser and Hugh Dorsey go fishing and was added for the 2007 London production of Parade. A breakout dance for the hat- and cane-bearing "Manson Trio," accompanied by music very similar to "All That Jazz" from Chicago, interrupts a song by this name depicting a campaign against the Visigoths; that song follows after (*) "War Is A Science" in Stephen Schwartz's Pippin. This thing is believed to exists "beyond the cheap colored lights" by Roger, who seeks to gain it before "time dies" by writing "One Song" in Rent. For 10 points, name this attribute which, when repeated twice, precedes "Hallelujah" in Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic.ANSWER: glory [or The Glory; or One Song Glory]A mother in this film has trouble distinguishing Belinda and Bettina, her twin daughters. At one point, a sidekick in this film falls onto a “flaming hot goose” roasting on a spit. A small boy in this work sings “Life is full of sweet surprises / Everyday's a gift / The sun comes up and I can feel it lift my spirit” at the dinner table. A headmaster in this film proudly exclaims “It is the American way!” before a whisper in his ear leads him to correct to “It is the British way!” The song “Bless Us All” is found in this film, in which several (*) rats scribble furiously with quills in an underheated office. The lead human in this movie, played by Michael Caine, has several chains thrown on him by the duo of “Marley and Marley,” depicted in this case as Statler and Waldorf. A vision of a small crippled frog features in, for 10 points, what holiday special by Jim Henson Productions, in which Rizzo the Rat helps Gonzo assume the narratorial role of Charles Dickens?ANSWER: The Muppet Christmas Carol [prompt on “A Christmas Carol” to be nice]On stage, the role of this named character was originated by Aiko Nakasone, and this character’s first appearance is immediately followed by the sung line “I think we need an agent.” This character, who claims to have seen Alec Baldwin while spending Labor Day weekend in East Hampton on the beach, repeatedly exclaims “Ker-ching ker-CHING!” in her characteristically repetitive sing-songy way. This character is told “Call me a hypocrite, I need to (*) finish my own film -- I quit!” during the bridge of “What You Own.” For 10 points, name this employee of?the sleazy TV show Buzzline, who leaves annoying voice mails to try and hire Mark Cohen in the second act of RENT.ANSWER: Alexi Darling [accept either underlined name]A chorus of older women in the Weismann Theater addresses one of these inanimate objects in a 1971 song whose lyrics evoke "Cole Porter in his professionally weary mood" and whose music imitates "Rodgers in his Rodgers and Hart days;" that song, in which Stella observes someone who "lives life like a carousel, / Beau after beau after beau," is "Who's That Woman?" from Stephen Sondheim's Follies. After "Dance Ten, Looks Three," Cassie sings a song whose last title word is this noun, belting that "all [she] ever needed / was the Music and" one of these objects, and a chance to dance. Though the Knight of the White Moon episode does NOT occur in Man of La Mancha, in that show, Sansón Carrasco dubs himself the (*) Knight of [these objects] and uses them to bring Don Quixote to his senses. Carrasco's first guise in Cervantes' novel is also named for, for 10 points, what objects, such as a magic one which stupidly tells an evil queen that there is a fairer being than her in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?ANSWER: mirrors [accept The Music and the Mirror]In "Flight," a standalone song written by Craig Carnella, the singer pines “Wanna flow, wanna [this verb], wanna spill” before he imagines “grow[ing] on a grove on the side of a hill.” As originally sung by Ty Taylor, Man 1 sings that this exact verb is happening to him twice after begging “Carry me on, and my shame / ?and my fear will pass me by” in “Flying Home,” the penultimate song in Songs for a New World. This verb is the first word titling a song lamenting Uncle Ben’s “silence in a crowded room / Louder than the loudest tune”, the lead single from that awful show Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Repeated commands for everybody to do this, originally sung by Elaine Stritch, end a song in which Joanne asks “Does anyone still wear a (*) hat? I’ll drink to that”; those commands end “Ladies Who Lunch” from Company. For 10 points, name this action which the Cat in the Hat commands all present to do in Seussical as Judge Yertle enters the courtroom for Horton’s trial, which the sun does accompanied by the words “Nants ingonyama bagithi baba” at the start of The Lion King.ANSWER: everybody rise [or wanna rise; or Rise Above; or rise up; or “I’m rising; rising”; or sunrise; prompt on “flight” or similar answers until “exact” is read; do NOT accept “stand”]Late in the show he appears in, this male character stays up at home waiting until "Four O'Clock," the time of a far-away execution. In another song, this character describes his "Little Grey House" to Alex, the illegitimate son of his sister. This character's most famous song begins "Before Lord God made the sea and the land" as "He held all the stars in the palm of his hand." Two decades after premiering the role of Porgy, Todd Duncan sang "Thousands of Miles" as he created this role in 1949. Songs composed for this character by (*) Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, include "O Tixo, Tixo, Help Me!" For 10 points, name this protagonist of the Broadway musical Lost in the Stars, a Zulu priest who travels to Johannesburg in search of his sister Gertrude and his murderer son Absalom.ANSWER: Stephen Kumalo [or Stephen Kumalo]The most prominent musical theme attributed to this composer takes a step down from A to G, then up a third to B, then half-steps down to Bb and A. According to Friedrich Nietzsche, this non-Wagner composer built "all his political hopes" on "middle-class mediocrity," and was unique for his era in that he "brought the spectator onto the stage." The Vienna papyrus G.2315 shows part of a song credited to this composer, a stasimon set to be sung around (*) Orestes. This man's musical innovations included astrophic, polymetric monodies, such as one describing the cleaning of Apollo's temple which he put in the voice of Ion. For 10 points, name this man who failed to fight off the Socratic sensibility which killed tragedy according to Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, and whose songwriting skills contributed to first-place wins at the City Dionysia for his plays Hippolytus and The Bacchae.ANSWER: EuripidesA book of this title earned the nickname “The Green Monster” from the first students who read it, due to its size and the color of its cover. Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst sing as part of a trio that "Girls Must Be Strong" in a musical of this title, which premiered in 2013 at the Keble O'Reilly Theatre in Oxford, and whose plot involves a time vortex to ancient Athens that opens up in the Quad at Harvard. Michael (*) Sandel got famous for criticizing a book of this title, which advocates maximin resource allocation to ensure that any remaining inequalities benefit those who are worst off. For 10 points, name this 1971 book adapted into a musical captured on Vimeo behind a paywall, in which Ayn Rand seduces the protagonist's rival Robert Nozick and a muse-like being holding a sword and a scale, called Fairness, falls for John Rawls. ANSWER: A Theory of Justice [or John Rawls' A Theory of Justice: The Musical!]One of these compositions imagines that a “grass-green turf” grows by a dead lover’s head, "at" whose "feet" lies "a stone." Another of them imagines "springs / on chaliced flowers that lies," where Phoebus's horses are taken to drink. Three of them, including “The Cloud-Capp’d Towers,” were arranged for SATB choir by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1951. The leadin to a tossup on “aubades” at Minnesota Open 2012 inspired Kevin Koai to neg with this answer. (*) One of these, often interrupted by the refrain “With hey, ho! The wind and the rain,” notes that “the rain it raineth every day.” For 10 points, name these compositions whose original tunes are mostly lost, which include “Fear no more the heat o’ the’ sun” and are put in the mouths of characters such as Feste, Cymbeline, and Ophelia.ANSWER: songs from William Shakespeare’s plays [accept any answer indicating songs which were composed by, or had lyrics by, or were used by, or are found embedded in the works of, William Shakespeare] This character mistakenly uses the name "Harold Murgatroyd" to address Harrison Howell, a Washington politician who once helped this character get something out of her eye by taking her to Atlantic City. Her second solo song, which imagines an Ohioan named Mr. Thorne and a Hindu priest who "goes too far east," opens as she claims: "If a custom-tailored vet / (*) Asks me out for something wet, / When the vet begins to pet, I cry ''Hooray'." After hearing about a $10,000 debt, this character sings "Why Can't You Behave?"; she later belts out "Always True To You In My Fashion" to Bill Calhoun, her gambling-addicted boyfriend, as they're both backstage. For 10 points, name this serially-unfaithful actress who plays Bianca in the play-within-a-play from Kiss Me, Kate.ANSWER: Lois Lane [accept either underlined name; do not accept "Bianca"]During a song in C minor sung by this group of people, the band repeatedly plays the same seven-chord-long descending-fifth sequence as the jazz standard “Autumn Leaves,” under a vocal line beginning C-D-Eb-Eb. “Vapor and fume at the stone of my tomb” are imagined by a pregnant member of this group named Jeannie in a song exhorting “Breathe deep, while you sleep.” This group’s song “The Bed” was cut from a 2009 revival directed by Diane Paulus. They’re not Samoan, but this group poses for a picture with Margaret Mead, who turns out to be a man in drag. Leonard Bernstein walked out of the show featuring this group before intermission, and compared “laundry lists” to songs it sings such as (*) “Ain’t Got No” and “Sodomy.” This group chants in Sanskrit during an Act I finale in which it controversially strips naked on stage. Berger and Claude Bukowski are the ringleaders of, for 10 points, what relatively unshowered group of New Yorkers, which plaintively wails “Let the sunshine in” and hails “the dawning of the Age of Aquarius” in a 1968 rock musical?ANSWER: the Tribe [or the ensemble of Hair; or the cast of Hair; prompt on “hippies”]This song introduces a key 3/4-time theme in its movie, whose first 2 measures begin on the rising scale degrees 1-3-5-flat 7, then take a step down to flat 6. It’s not “Pop, Lock and Drop It,” but the beginning of this song features low Es alternating with a low F on the fourth beat of each measure as the chorus echoes one-word commands. In the scene IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING this song, a worker swings across the face of a statue and accidentally paints a smile on its face before the nose of that statue falls off and breaks a scaffold. During a moment of high tension in this song, a crocodile and several hippopotamuses all snap their jaws. The first words heard in this song, at a construction site, are "Mud… Sand… Water… Straw.... FASTER!” The middle of this song is a lullaby beginning “Hush now my baby, be still now, don’t cry,” sung by (*) Yocheved as she flees a police raid on Goshen and puts her child in a CGI basket. For 10 points, name this song co-written by Hans Zimmer and Stephen Schwartz in which a bunch of animated Hebrew slaves ask God for escape "to the Promised Land", the opening song of DreamWorks' film The Prince of Egypt.ANSWER: “Deliver Us” [prompt on “opening of The Prince of Egypt”; anti-prompt on “Yocheved’s lullaby” or "Hush now, my baby" etc. until mention]During the 1870s, using this skill on an object could involve observing whether “I.G. Mod. 71” is engraved on that object or not. A character mentions this skill as the orchestra plays four tutti Bb7 chords for a quarter-note each, in the slow third verse of an otherwise fast song in Eb major. A person without this skill might falsely believe that Leon Gambetta escaped from an occupying army equipped with assegais by using a hot air balloon. This skill makes it easier to spot the technology which replaced the most famous product of the Dreyse metalworks. One of six examples of “a smattering of (*) elemental strategy,” someone who lacks this skill admits so just before saying that “such affairs as sorties and surprises” he could afford to be “more wary at.” For 10 points, name this skill which might allow Major-General Stanley from The Pirates of Penzance to distinguish the main firearm of the 1870s Prussian army and a hurled, arm-length projectile dating back to the Stone Age.ANSWER: telling at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin [accept “When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin”; accept any descriptive answer to the effect of 'determining whether a given object is a Mauser rifle, a javelin, both, or neither'; prompt on “(smattering of) elemental strategy” before it is read; prompt on answers such as “a better major-general has never sat a-gee”; prompt on "capable of vision"]One song of this exact title contains a brief footage montage in which the singing character is held aloft and spun violently in front of a Santa impersonator on a snowy street. This exact phrase names a song alternately titled "Everybody Rejoice," in which workers in Eveline's factory dance while asking "Can't you feel a [this phrase]" to celebrate the melting of the Wicked Witch of the West in the all-black musical The Wiz. Penny sings this phrase immediately before three superfans hold up a receipt and say "This is his dry cleaning bill" in "So They Say." In a song of this title, Billy declares that "Mr.(*) Cool, Mr. Right, Mr. Know-it-all is through" and imagines himself as a giant stomping people on the street as the "sun is high" and the "angels sing because you're gonna die." For 10 points, give this optimistic three-word phrase which titles the last song of Act 2 of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.ANSWER: Brand New Day [or "Can't you feel a brand new day;" or "build a brand new day; or "It's a brand new day"]Places of this sort introduce the minor characters Diana Dream and Dolores Dolores, as well as the song “I Wish I Was Dead,” in Leonard Bernstein’s On the Town. In another musical, the narrator makes a blizzard of Tom Cruise references in one of these places, which get rebuffed when Yolanda says she doesn’t speak English. The pre-show to the 2008 musical Fela!, about Nigerian politician Fela Kuti, is set in one of these places as Fela works there. Years after getting kicked off a title conveyance, Julie LaVerne sings “Bill” in (*) one of these places in Act II of Show Boat. Several people exclaim “Somebody better open these goddamn doors” and “Oye, qué pasó?” in one of these places during the Act I finale of In the Heights, “Blackout.” For 10 points, name this type of establishment where one might "get that X" or sip Bacardi like it’s Shawty’s birthday according to an early hit single by 50 Cent.ANSWER: nightclubs [or dance clubs; or The Club; or In Da Club; anti-prompt on “bar” or “cabaret” or “stage” or “concert hall”]Early in this show, “Majestic vessels break against a rippling white cap fog” before a woman recites the names of many ships including the Phoenix, the Orion, and the real-world-infamous Zong. Several men exclaim “I got, I got, I got the beat; you got, you got, you got the beat” in this show’s “Whirligig Stomp,” which ends a segment of this show including a Chicago riot on “Urbanization.” The composer-lyricist and female lead of this show, Ann Duquesnay, beat out Idina Menzel’s performance as Maureen for the Best Featured Actress Tony Award, and its lead male dancer was Savion Glover. This show's opening?number, "In Da Beginning," quickly segues to "The Door to Isle Gorée" and "Slave Ships," and it sweeps out an arc of musical styles up to a “Gospel / Hip-Hop Rant.” ?For 20 points, name this 1995 Broadway revue which traced black history, and black music history, through tap dance.ANSWER: Bring In ‘da Noise, Bring In ‘da FunkOne character in this show sings "The opposite of dark is bright, / The opposite of bright is dumb" while assessing the "watchcries" that other people live by alongside Chief of Police Magruder. A leader in this show is accompanied by four Pageboys who carry her in a sedan chair. The first act of this 3-act musical ends with a mock audience facing the real audience and laughing at it at the end of the song "Simple". After Baby Joan licks a rock in this show, water is pumped out of it to fake a miracle. Angela Lansbury's first Broadway role was as Cora the Mayoress in this show, whose economically depressed town setting deals with a breakout from a sanitarium called the Cookie Jar. In its title song, Fay declares that "What's (*) hard is simple / What's natural comes hard" after noting that she can "dance a tango," "read Greek," and "slay a dragon any old week – easy". For 10 points, name this massive 1964 flop by Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim, whose title is an evidently false general statement about people.ANSWER: Anyone Can WhistleAn angry reference to this activity is hurled at someone who is “carvin’ up the chicken for dinner, mindin’ [her] own business” while standing in her own kitchen. The story containing this phrase is followed by a frantic burst of spoken Hungarian from Hunyak; said story itself is summarized by, but DOES NOT contain, the word “Squish,” as told by residents of (*) Crookem County Jail. The person who yells this accusation, Wilbur, then ran into his wife June’s knife “ten times.” For 10 points, name this adulterous activity described in the “Cell Block Tango” from Chicago, which might please a food service professional who’s “on his way” according to the “Lullaby of Broadway” featured in 42nd Street.ANSWER: “You’ve been screwing the milkman” [prompt on “adultery” and synonyms thereof before “adulterous”; prompt on “screwing,” “sex,” etc.]David Nield helped write a musical set in Victorian England about a Ragged one of these entities for the Edinburgh International Festival. In a number added to the Little Mermaid musical titled for one of these beings, the eels Flotsam and Jetsam suggest that Ariel go see Ursula the Sea-Witch. Tateh and Mother sing that two of these people are “silhouetted by the blue, / One like me and one like … you” while on an Atlantic City beach in the musical Ragtime. Baron and Baroness (*) Bomburst employ a “Catcher” of these people to rid Vulgaria of them in the musical adaptation of Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang. These people "will look to you / For which way to turn / To learn what to be." For 10 points, name this type of person who "Will Listen" according to the Witch in the finale of Into the Woods, and which might result from unsafely screwing the milkman.ANSWER: children [accept The Ragged Child; accept Sweet Child; accept Our Children] ................
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