Technical Theatre
Broadway Questions
Name Games
Musicals + Actors
Basics
100

Another common name for the technical rehearsal

What is Cue-to-Cue?

100

The city Broadway is famously located in

What is New York City?
100

The name of the green witch in Wicked (bonus points for full name)

What is Elphaba Thropp?

100

Broadway star that voiced Elsa in Frozen

What is Idina Menzel?
100
What you say to someone before a performance for good luck

What is Break a leg?

200

The kind of microphone commonly used by actors or hidden on their costumes

What is a Lavalier Mic?
200

The longest running broadway musical of all time

What is The Phantom of The Opera

200

The name of the carnivorous Venus fly trap plant in Little Shop of Horrors

What is Audrey II?

200

Musical set in a cannibalistic pie shop in 19th century London

What is Sweeney Todd?

200

A common note given to actors to be able to see their face and hear them

What is Cheating Out?

300

A length of steel pipe to support lighting, drops, and flying scenery

What is the Batten?
300

The oldest running Broadway theater still in operation

What is the Lyceum?

300

The name of Annie’s dog in the musical Annie

What is Sandy?

300

Stephen Schwartz musical featuring a traveling religious group performing parables

What is Godspell?

300

When all actors bow at the end of the show

What is Curtain Call?

400

The proper name for a rotating circular platform to create movement on stage

What is Revolve?
400

What lyricist and composer (who died in 2021) had a Broadway Theater named for him on his 80th birthday?

What is Stephen Sondheim?

400

The name of the wannabe vaudeville performer that stars in Chicago

What is Roxie Hart?

400

Actress that originated the role of Veronica in Heathers: the Musical

What is Barrett Wilbert Weed?

400

A waiting room where performers rest or receive visitors

What is Green Room?
500

Stencil or pattern placed in a light to project a shape or texture

What is Gobo?

500

The minimum number of seats a venue in the theater district must have to be a “Broadway” theater

What is 500?

500

The real name of the Phantom in Phantom of The Opera

What is Erik?

500
Musical that has characters named Grizabella and Bombalurina

What is Cats?

500

The term for the traditional stage where the audience sits on one side facing the show

What is Proscenium Stage?

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