Musicals
The musical about a young orphan girl who moves in with a wealthy man during the Great Depression.
What is Annie?
The dance step where everyone lines up together with their hands behind each other's backs, and they kick right/ left.
What is a kickline?
The front part of the stage, closest to the audience.
What is Downstage?
When ONE character speaks for a long time by themselves. These are sometimes used in auditions, but are sometimes written into a play or movie for the character to speak.
What is a monologue?
What is Be Our Guest?
Spongebob and his friends built the Eruptor Disruptor to stop this from killing everyone in Bikini Bottom.
What is a volcano? (also acceptable: "What is Mount Humongous?")
A jazzy way to walk on stage where you move sideways in one direction as one leg crosses in front of the other.
What is the Jazz Walk?
The part of the stage that is on the audience's left and the actor's right.
The city where Broadway is located.
Where is New York City?
Annie and her friends think their lives are difficult. This song title explains how they describe their lives.
What is The Hard-Knock Life?
Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote this musical to tell the story of one of America's Founding Fathers.
What is Hamilton?
When you put your hands out to the side, palms facing the audience, and wiggle them rapidly.
What are Jazz Hands?
When an actor makes up their words or movements "on the spot" without planning it first.
What is improvisation? (also acceptable: What is improv?)
This is the job title of the person who writes the dances for a musical.
What is a choreographer?
The title of the song from Matilda where a group of children are fighting back against the mean principal, Mrs. Trunchbull.
What is Revolting Children?
The Rodgers & Hammerstein musical about a woman studying to become a nun moves in with a single father and his many children during WWII Austria, teaching them many things, including how to sing.
What is The Sound of Music?
What is Jazz Square? (also acceptable: What is Box Step?)
When two actors angle themselves towards each other but also a bit towards the audience. This allows the audience to see their faces while still looking like the characters are having a conversation.
What is Cheating Out?
This word describes when you move part of your body (often hands) to make your acting believable. Examples are waving, pointing, etc.
What are gestures?
The title of the song sung by an old cat who is reflecting on what life was like when she was young and beautiful.
What is Memory?
The musical about man who lives beneath an opera house and becomes fixated on a soprano named Christine. He wears a mask over half of his face.
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
A jazzy dance step where your right foot kicks forward while your hands flick, then your right foot and hand both move towards the middle, then the left foot moves back while the left hand moves forward, and then and then the left foot and hands move back towards the middle.
What is the Charleston?
The word to describe when an actor "tries out" to be cast in a musical.
What is audition?
This is the word for using your voice to speak loudly and clearly enough for an audience to hear you from far away.
What is projecting (or projecting your voice)?
The number of minutes in a year. This is taught to us in the song Seasons of Love from the musical Rent.
What is 525,600?