Theater Terms
This form of acting/reading doesn't let the actor read the script ahead of time.
What is cold reading?
This 2003 musical originally starred a strange colored Idina Menzel and "bubbly" Kristen Chenoweth as unlikely friends based on a very old movie.
What is Wicked?
This is the position on the stage that is closest to the audience.
What is downstage?
This month is normally considered Pride Month.
What is June?
The park on Woodruff Avenue right next to school is called this name.
What is the Del Valle Park?
The planned movement in a play or scene.
What is blocking?
This musical based off a book takes place in revolutionary France, and there was a film adaptation in 2012 featuring Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway.
What is Les Misérables?
This is the position on the stage furthest from the audience.
What is upstage?
One of the first "pride" moments in US history was a riot in 1969 at this Inn.
What is Stonewall?
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
Which of the following stores are NOT in the immediate Lakewood High School vicinity?
A. Vons
B. Home Goods
C. Party City
D. Ralphs
C. Party City
This term refers to completely clearing the stage of anything that used to be on it. Also can mean getting a stage ready for a different play.
What is striking a set?
This musical had a recent disastrous film adaptation that looked incredibly strange, but it has a long history of being a "purr"fect musical on Broadway.
What is Cats?
This type of acting has no script and is often comedic in nature.
What is improv?
This sexuality means that you hold little to no sexual attraction to another person.
What is asexual?
There are approx. this many people who live in Lakewood.
What is 80,000?
Despite how it sounds, this term means good luck.
What is "break a leg"?
This musical features a ghost haunting an old theater who grows obsessed with one of the actresses in a show.
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
This is a type of play that is normally much shorter than a normal one because it has less parts than other plays.
What is a one act play?
This hip hop artist/rapper is a gay man who has released songs like "Montero" and "Old Town Road".
Who is Lil Nas X?
The Lakewood Mall has this ride near the Target.
What is a carousel?
The audience.
What is the house?
This musical features a plant from outer space that a timid young man tries to calm down with human blood.
What is Little Shop of Horrors?
We read/performed scenes from a play called The Glass Menagerie. This is the author.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
This pop singer is a bisexual woman who has released songs about her identity like "Born This Way".
Who is Lady Gaga?
Lakewood High School was opened in this year.
What is 1956?
The room where people get ready to go on that's named after a color
What is the green room?
With half a dozen characters from various fairytale stories, this musical shows the "real" story of many well known fairytale creatures like Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Rapunzel.
What is Into the Woods?
This is a term for a type of script piece where only one person talks for an extended amount of time.
What is a monologue?
To this day, it is still illegal for a gay man specifically to do this simple thing in the US.
What is donating blood?
The high school in Long Beach has their football field in Lakewood
What is St. Anthony's High School?
A practice for a play that includes all sound and lighting cues
What is a tech rehearsal?
Based off an 80s black (not ethnicity) comedy movie, this musical is about a man killing students at his high school along with his reluctant girlfriend and blaming it all on suicide.
What is Heathers?
The name of the group of people who work lights and sounds.
Who are stage crew?
This gender identity is one where you can "fluidly" transition between male and female at will.
What is genderfluid?
The address of our school.
4400 Briercrest St.
This expression means to turn towards the audience, even when you might be facing another actor on the stage.
What is "cheat out"?
Based off an 80s comedy movie, this musical stars a strangely named demon who tries to convince a newly dead couple to let him help them navigate death.
What is Beetlejuice?
This is the thing that happens between acts of a play or show. A break.
What is an intermission?
There are this many countries that criminalize LGBTQ "behavior" still.
What is 48?
Our principal's FIRST and LAST name.
Who is Mona Merlo?
The part of the curtain that is on the side of the stage.
What are the wings?
Done completely with puppets, this musical won best musical of 2003 instead of Wicked.
What is Q Avenue?
The classroom is this type of theater.
What is a black box theater?
There is a long history of trans individuals, and indigenous transgender people were often called this name.
What is two spirit?
The vice principal in charge of DMAC.
Who is Mrs. Tullo?
This part of the stage is a rounded part at the very front of it that juts out a little towards the audience.
What is a proscenium?
Using only songs from a Swedish pop band, this musical tells the story of a young woman who wants to get married, but needs to figure out who her father is so he can walk her down the aisle.
What is Mamma Mia!?
This is the name of a piece of a script where someone speaks alone for an extended period of time, but they cannot be heard by any characters on the stage, only by the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
This identity is a characterized as a lack of attraction to someone romantically.
What is aromantic?
Lakewood was "incorporated" or made into a city in this year.
What is 1954?