"But you said, "the man we have called..." as if we had made up his name"
Narrator 2/ Maddie
Suffers eternal damnation
Marley
wretched
Extremely unhappy, poor, or miserable
The physical tearing down and packing up of the set after a show closes
strike
Angling your body toward the audience so they can see and hear you better, even when talking to another actor
Cheating out
"Let me leave it alone, then. Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!"
Scrooge/Nolan
Suffers intense neglect as a child, left completely alone at a boarding school
Young scrooge
Covetous
Wanting something that belongs to someone else
A plastic sheet that goes in a frame is front of a light to change its color
Gels
Common direction given to actors who are hard to hear, facing back, or need to support their voice
Project
"Tis' a small matter, to make these silly folks do full of gratitude"
Past/Ezra
Suffers from a severe physical illness that leads to his early death
Tim
Desolate
Empty, lonely, or abandoned
A specialized fabric that appears completely opaque when lit from the front, but becomes translucent when lit from behind
Scrim...
Making up or improvising lines and actions when you forget text or something goes wrong
Ad-lib
"In words. No. Never."
Belle/Jewel
Loses his business in harsh economic times in the alternate dark future, though he is happy in the present
Fezziwig
Miserly
Unwilling to spend or give away money
Heavy pipe or wooden bar that is suspended horizontally over the stage to hang scenery, curtains, or lighting instruments
Battens
Cue
"Hurrah"
Tim/Travis
Appear as wretched, deformed, and starving creatures
ignorance and Want
Uncooth
Unmannered
A rehearsal that involves running through cues without any actors present.
Dry tech
This blocking direction instructs an actor to stand diagonally downstage or upstage from another performer, ensuring neither blocks the others sightline
staggering/levels