HW 2

MTHR 3143 001/850/851 Homework Please Type OR Highlight all written answers. Chapter 2, STRIKE UP THE BAND Name____________ Siddhi Patel ______________________ True(T) or False(F): Please highlight the letter that correctly answers the question. IF the answer is "F," please provide information that would make that question "true." Do so on the lines provided on the back of this homework sheet. Please TYPE all written answers! 1. T or F A major innovation for musical theatre in the 1920s was the creation songs for shows before the script was written. 2. T or F The Student Prince was a highly successful musical comedy in the 1920s. 3. T or F Popular dance steps of the 1920s included the Charleston, the shimmy, the one (and two) step, the tango, etc., etc. 4. T or F Shuffle Sideways , by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake was one of the most the successful "black musicals"* of the 1920s. 5. T or F Lady, Be Bad was written by George Gershwin and Lorenz Hart. 6. T or F Fred and Adele Astaire were a husband-wife dance team. 7. T or F No, No, Nanette was composed and written (lyrics) by Oscar Hammerstein II. 8. T or F No, No, Nanette first opened on Broadway and then toured the country. 9. T or F With Lorenz Hart, composer Richard Rodgers wrote music to which Hart then created the lyrics. 10. T or F Considered the first "Worst Egyptian Musical," Showboat first appeared on Broadway in 1928. 11. T or F Show Boat was produced by Florenz Ziegfeld. 12. T or F Show Boat , though listed as a "musical comedy" was really the first American musical drama. 13. T or F Show Boat dealt with the problems and issues with gambling and drug abuse. 14. T or F Three Penny Opera was composed by Kurt Brecht and written (script) by Bertolt Weill in August 1928. 15. T or F Three Penny Opera influenced Broadway musical of the future ( Company, Follies, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Sweeney Todd, etc.).