Composers
Lighting Terms
Theatre Rules
Theatre Jobs
Milestones
100

The composer of Shrek, Fun Home, Caroline or Change

Who is Janine Tesori

100

The colored glass or film used to alter the color of a lighting instrument.

What is a gel.

100

This type of audition must include members of the creative team.

What is an Equity Chorus Call.

100

This person runs the show.

Who is the Stage Manager
100

This landmark in musical theatre had the chorus line eliminated and was first to offer an interracial relationship (white man and black women). 

What is Showboat

200

The composer of The Secret Garden and Dr. Zhivago

Who is Lucy Simon

200

The abbreviation PAR stands for:

What is Parabolic Aluminum Reflector

200

Typing is allowed at this type of Audition.

What is an Equity Chorus Call

200

This person is elected by the cast to serve as the liaison between the cast and the producers.

Who is the Equity Deputy

200

This was the first musical to include a ballet sequence and also to use dance elements to further the dramatic plot.  It also began the Golden Age.

What is Oklahoma

300

This person works worked with Lin Manuel Miranda on Bring it on.

Who is Amanda Green

300

This kind of lighting instrument includes a lens and barn doors.

What is a Fresnel

300

This person runs the audition, organizing the auditionees in a line, collecting HS and Resumes and facilitating their entrance to the audition room. 

Who is the Monitor, or Equity Monitor

300

This person is in charge of all the "goings on" beyond the stage.  Including audience organization, safety and the handling of other staff.

Who is the House Manager

300

Juanita Hall

The first black performer to win a Tony Award.

400

These three women saw music from their existing catalog utilized and crafted into original juke box musicals.  

Who are Alanis Morrissette, Sara Bareilles and Carol King.

400

The term "wash" refers to what kind of lighting.

What is a group of lights working together to cover a larger area.

400
The producers hire this person (or company) to handle the casting of their shows.

What is the Casting Agent or Casting Director

400

This person serves as a right hand to the Director, and will also be used to creatively stage subsequent productions in preparation for the directors arrival.  

Who is the Associate Director

400

This musical won the most Tony Awards, with 12. 

What is The Producers

500
For Fine and Dandy, she was credited as the first woman to have entirely written a hit musical.

Kay Swift

500

This kind of lighting instrument has the ability to change colors, focus lens, add diffusion and follow actors in a fully automated way.

What is intelligent lighting.

500

This person has the job of handling contracting, booking transportation, organizing hotel accommodations if needed, etc. 

Who is the company manager.  

500

This person gives cues to the actors when it is their time to enter the stage. 

Who is No One

500
The honor that these 4 artists share:  Whoopie Goldberg, Quincy Jones, James Earl Jones, Harry Belafonte

What is all have won the EGOT.  

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