CREW/TECH KNOWLEDGE
The boundary edge of the stage set, named for the area where actors stand when out of view of the audience.
What is offstage / wings?
Shakespeare’s famous tragedy about two star-crossed lovers from feuding families in Verona.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
The direction given to an actor to move from one part of the stage to another.
What is blocking?
The phrase actors say to wish each other good luck before a show instead of "good luck."
What is "Break a leg"?
Played the lead role in Hamilton on Broadway and wrote the show's music and lyrics.
Who is Lin-Manuel Miranda?
The weighted pulleys and ropes used to raise and lower scenery or lighting rigs above the stage.
What is a fly/rigging system?
In Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark delivers a famous soliloquy starting with these six words.
What is, To be, or not to be?
The imaginary boundary between the actors on stage and the audience watching them.
What is the Fourth Wall?
"On Wednesdays, we wear pink."
What is Mean Girls?
An actor most famous for his roles as SpongeBob on Broadway and Seymour in Little Shop of horror's in west side productions.
Who is Ethan Slater?
The superstition stating that saying the title of this Shakespeare play inside a theater brings bad luck.
What/who is Macbeth?
The comedy play that features four lost lovers, fairies, and a man turned into a donkey named Bottom.
What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?
Facing or turning your body toward the audience so they can clearly see your facial expressions.
What is cheating out?
"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life!"
What is The Crucible?
Played Evan Hansen in Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway and went on to star in movie musicals like Pitch Perfect.
Who is Ben Platt?
A metal stencil placed inside a lighting instrument to project a pattern, such as leaves or window frames, onto the stage.
What is a gobo?
Shakespeare wrote most of his plays and sonnets using this specific 10-syllable rhythmic poetic structure.
What is iambic pentameter?
An audition requirement where an actor reads lines from a script without having seen or rehearsed them in advance.
What is a cold read?
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
What is Les Misérables?
A two-time Tony winner who played Shakespeare in Something Rotten! and Black Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher.
Who is Christian Borle?
A safety mechanism that uses a heavy wire cable to quickly drop a fire-resistant curtain to seal the stage off from the audience.
What is a fire curtain / safety curtain?
The famous outdoor London theater built in 1599 where many of Shakespeare's plays were performed.
What is the Globe Theatre?
The acting approach, named after its creator, that focuses on getting the actor out of their head and responding instinctively to their scene partner.
What is the Meisner Technique?
"To length of days and strength of nights, and to the star-stuff in us all."
What is Peter and the Starcatcher?
Won a 2024 Tony Award for playing Charley Kringas in the Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Along and starred as Harry Potter in the original West End run of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child but is also known for his NON theatre performances.
Who is Daniel Radcliffe?