Chapter 10 Review Questions

Chapter 10 guided review questions:
**How many theatres make up today's official Broadway Theatre District?
**Where is the TKTS Booth located?
**What is the salary difference between Broadway and Off-Broadway productions?
**In what city is the "Loop" theatre district?
**The Mark Taper Forum produces what category of theatre?
**The Guthrie Theatre stages what type of theatre?

Homework #7: Musicals!

This is another large assignment. It is due Tuesday, December 2 (the class after Thanksgiving break), and it worth triple. It comes in three parts.

PART 1: Fill in the sheet that I handed out in class on November 20. Some websites that you may find helpful are the official Tony Awards website's searchable archives, playbill.com's list of current broadway shows, the Internet Broadway Database, and the Pulitzer Prize website's list of past winners for Drama.

PART 2: Answer the Chapter 9 guided review questions, including the extra ones added today!

PART 3: Make up an date seeing a show that you and your guest would both enjoy. Since this is an imaginary date, feel free to be creative and have fun with it!

Briefly describe the type of show you enjoy seeing.

Briefly describe the type of show you think your guest would enjoy seeing. (Your guest can be a boyfriend/girlfriend, parent, roommate, sibling, friend - whatever.)

Pick a play being performed nearby that you think you would both enjoy. Use the internet as a tool to help you find shows being produced by local community theatres, nearby professional theatres, other colleges/universities, etc.

Explain why you think you and your guest would enjoy this show.

Mention where and when the show is being performed, and how much the tickets will cost.

Cite the source of your info(e.g., the theatre's website, a copy of the advertisement from the paper), so that I can double-check everything.

OTHER THINGS WORTHY OF NOTE:

There will be a quiz on Chapter 9, The Musical Theatre, in class on Tuesday, December 2. It will carry the weight of one homework assignment.

Please read the blog comment someone left in response to the entry, "Chapters 7 & 8 Review Questions".

Our tech rehearsal is also on Tuesday, December 2, from 7:30-9:30 p.m. The performance is Monday, December 8, from 7:30-9:00 p.m. Missing EITHER of these is an automatic failure for the entire course!

Chapter 9 Review Questions - Updated 12/1

Here are the chapter 9 guided review questions:

**The Broadway musical has its roots in what 19th century genres?
**A musical generally has three creators. Who does what?
**Where was vaudevillian George M. Cohan born?
**What are the differences between musical comedy and musical drama?
**Why were the following shows groundbreaking? Show Boat, Porgy & Bess, and Oklahoma.
**What does Susan Stroman have in common with Bob Fosse and what is her trademark as a director/choreographer?

(New as of 11/20:)
**How is Monty Python's Spamalot similar to Mel Brooks' The Producers?
**What musical with music by elton John opened on Broadway in September 2008? Check out YouTube.
**The musical Spring Awakening, which is on the cover of your book, won 8 Tony Awards. What's a Tony?

(New as of 12/1:)
**Sweeney Todd, the movie, stars Johnny Depp. Who was the composer/lyricist of the musical and why is he considered one of the greatest influences on the modern musical? Check out YouTube, Sweeney Todd, opening scene. What color is Sweeney's shirt?

Chapters 7 & 8 Review Questions

Note that new questions have been added to the Chapter 6 guided review questions below. Here are the questions for chapter 7:
**Where did theatre begin?
**What are the two foundations of theatre?
**What was the purpose of the mask in ancient Greek theatre?
**Which Greek playwright is best known for his comic dramas?
**During what time period was Shakespeare writing?
**How does Asian theatre differ from Western traditions?

...and for chapter 8:
**What is the goal of the realism movement in theatre?