Thea 101 – Flashcard
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Eastern European directors created a theatre of ancient plays produced with
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Hidden, often subversive meanings clear to audiences, but lost on the government.
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Dinner theaters were introduced to suburban America in the 1970's offering a "night on the town" package of dinner and a play in the same facility.
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True
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The founding of the Yale Drama Department (now known as the Yale School of Drama)
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signaled an expanded commitment on the part of American higher education to train and educate future theatre artists
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The American Broadway musical dates back to
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the staging of The Black Crook, a melodrama, at Niblo's Garden in New York City in 1866 when a French dance company stranded in the city was added to the show
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Which American orchestral conductor and composer left a considerable mark on the musical's golden age with his On the Town, about World War II sailors on leave in Manhattan?
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Leonard Bernstein
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Which production shocked prewar audiences with its suggestive lyrics about sexual infidelity and shady business ethics?
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Pal Joey
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Opera bouffe is a type of satirical comic opera of French composer Jacques Offenback.
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True
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The musical that Susan Stroman directed, which sensitively tells the true story of young black southern men—some of them just boys—who were falsely accused and convicted of raping two white women on a train, used a simple set design, and staged in the format of a minstrel show is called
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The Scottsboro Boys
