Uniting all the elements of the performance--script, acting, set, costumes, lights, music and sound--into a meaningful whole.
What is the business and the art of the director?
100
Designers that have drafting and construction skills.
What are scenic designers?
100
The early term used to describe musical theater.
What is musical comedy?
100
Developed Meiningen court theater--was determined to reclaim the theater from haphazard production practices and excesses of popular lead actors.
Who is George II, duke of Saxe-Meiningen?
100
The central action the draws together all the smaller plot incidents and all the separate character actions.
What is the spine of the play?
200
As defined by Stanislavsky, one who interprets the playwright's creation.
Who is the director?
200
The common denominator for all theater spaces.
What is three-dimensionality?
200
Musical about farmers and cowboys that reinforced traditional American values at a time when the nation was in the middle of participation in WWII.
What is Oklahoma! ?
200
Most famous and influential director of early realistic period; developed psychological approach.
Who is Konstantin Stanislavsky?
200
Found objects, reworked fabrics or clothes, and bare lights serving as design elements.
What is poor theater?
300
Creates the foundation for what happens on the stage.
What is the imagination of the director?
300
The period when stage design began to generate great enthusiasm and remarkable ingenuity.
What is the Renaissance? (or Baroque)
300
Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim's 1950s adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
What is West Side Story?
300
Created a rigorous and athletic actor training program and encouraged a process that would allow actors to strip away "life-masks"
Who is Jerzy Grotowski?
300
Framing device that defines the rectangular opening of the stage and shapes the audience's view.
What is the proscenium arch?
400
The director who works in partnership with the playwright and actors.
What is the first model of directorial approach?
400
One of the most powerful influences on human existence.
What is Light?
400
The 1950's musical that introduced brilliant language to the musical stage.
What is My Fair Lady?
400
Contributed a new vision for musical theater by extending actors' expressive possibilities through puppets and masks (with the production of the Lion King)
Who is Julie Taymor?
400
Three-sided stage arrangement where audience members are much more aware of the presence of other audience members.
What is a thrust stage?
500
Actions speak louder than words
What is the first principle of the stage?
500
Can be dated from the introduction of electric light on stage.
What is the modern era of theater?
500
Introduced the style of the "concept musical" where scenic and performance elements are of greater importance than the plot.
What is Cabaret?
500
Began professional career as a lyricist for West Side Story and Gypsy.
Who is Stephen Sondheim?
500
Stenciled cut outs placed inside lighting instruments to produce a patterned effect