Who's Who
Stage Directions
Drama Vocab
Broadway!
Trivia!
100
This person is in charge of the show overall. They make casting decisions, blocks the play (gives stage directions), coaches the actors.
Who is the director?
100
The area furthest from the audience (along the back wall).
What is upstage?
100
A type of play/production in which the audience sits all the way around the stage.
What is theater in the round?
100
This musical is about Horton and the Who's he finds on a clover!
What is Seussical the Musical?
100
The name of the theater here at the J.
What is the Vexler?
200
These are the people who perform the play. They memorize lines and blocking, and develop characters.
Who are actors?
200
The area of the stage closest to the audience.
What is downstage?
200
A type of acting in which you make up scenes on the spot, usually with help from the audience. There are no scripts in this type of theatre.
What is improvisation?
200
This musical takes place in Oz and tells the story of how Elphaba became the Wicked Witch of the West.
What is Wicked?
200
The most famous playwright of all time.
Who is Shakespeare?
300
This person is in charge of all of the dancing in a play or musical. They work with the director and make/teach dances to the actors and ensemble.
Who is the choreographer?
300
Where you stand and where you move to. Given by the director.
What is blocking?
300
The area where the audience sits.
What is the house?
300
This musical is supercalafradgilisticexpialidocious!
What is Mary Poppins?
300
Everything on stage that tells the audience where the show takes place.
What is the set?
400
This person helps the director during rehearsals. They write down all of the blocking and light/set cues, make the rehearsal schedule, check all of the equipment, and calls the show (calls for places, light cues, sound cues, set changes, etc.)
Who is the Stage Manager?
400
The middle of the stage.
What is center stage?
400
Anything that is used by an actor on stage that is NOT part of the set.
What are props?
400
This musical is about a little orphan girl who gets adopted by a rich man!
What is Annie?
400
The longest running Broadway show.
What is Phantom of the Opera?
500
This is the person/people in charge of the business part of theater. They hire staff (directors, etc.), manage the money, pays the actors, makes sure there is advertisements, and more.
Who are the producers?
500
Why is it called upstage and downstage?
Because in the old days, stages were raked, or sloped.
500
A speech that a character makes to other actors on stage.
What is a monologue?
500
This musical is about a girl who is obsessed with a ghost that is haunting her theater!
What is Phantom of the Opera?
500
The first show Allie did at the J, and the role she played.
What is Grease and Sandy?
M
e
n
u