Definitions
The feeling of intense nervousness or anxiety before or during a public performance
What is Stage Fright?
Something to consider this when we turn onstage.
What is turning towards the audience?
The specific reason a character has in a play to do things.
What is Motivation?
The choice of colors and textures influences the _______ of the production.
What is Mood?
Musical Theatre started in this country.
What is the United States?
The term that refers to a fixed program
What is Routine?
The exception to the "When walking onstage, you should walk normally" rule.
A character that has a distinct physical impairment or disability that alters their gait.
The ability to recall memories or an object through the use of our five senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. It involves mentally reliving past experiences by focusing on sensory details.
What is sense memory.
The physical space where the play unfolds.
What is the set?
The lead roles in Musical Theatre.
What is principals?
This word describes a hormone change, leading to a sudden rush of excitement and energy often experienced in high-stress situations.
What is Adrenaline?
Onstage is when you’re standing on the stage and Offstage is when you’re standing off the stage.
What is the difference between offstage and onstage?
The Shakespeare version of “Hush! What is that light through the window over there?”
What is “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?”
The designing of anything that, if you turned the whole stage upside down, wouldn’t fall.
What is Scenic Design?
Premiering in 1927, this was the first show that changed the game for Musical Theatre.
What is Show Boat.
Any sound one makes with their voice.
What is Vocalizing?
The ability of muscles to remember specific movements or actions through repeated practice, making them more efficient at performing those actions over time.
What is Muscle Memory?
“Her cheeks are brighter than stars, just like sunlight is brighter than a lamp.”
“The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp;”
In Set Design, arranging all of the elements of the set in a visually pleasing way.
What is Composition?
This person is in charge of creating and teaching the dances in a musical.
This term refers to clear and concise speaking.
What is Articulation?
This particular characteristic of old stages is the reason why we now call it "upstage" and "downstage".
What is raked?
“If her eyes were floating in the air, they would be so bright that birds would sing because they’d think it’s daytime.”
“her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing and think it were not night. ”
To read the play and research time period and location, work with the director to bring their vision to life and work with the other designers to create a cohesive colorstory.
What is the role of the scenic designer?
The original name for Musicals.
What are Musical Comedies?