Grab Bag
Types of Productions
Musicals
Playwrights
Staging
100
The Greek person who is credited with being the first actor.
What is Thespis?
100
A serious play in which the protagonist, by some peculiarity of character, passes through a series of misfortunes leading to a final devastating catastrophe.
What is tragedy?
100
Based on a novel by Victor Hugo, the musical tells the story of a French convict. After serving 19 years in prison, he is now free and turns his life around after the help from a saintly bishop.
What is Les Miserables?
100
an influential, innovative and successful American musical theatre writing team consisting of composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II. Five of their Broadway shows, Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music, were outstanding successes, as was the television broadcast of Cinderella
What is Rodgers and Hammerstein?
100
This stage is constructed so that an audience can sit on all sides of a performance; a stage with no main drape, wings or backstage
What is arena stage?
200
What is performed, the performance, and the audience
What is the components of theater?
200
Cycle plays from the Medieval Time period. These were plays that depicted the life of Jesus and were Christian based.
What is mystery plays?
200
The United States' version of London's West End theatre district.
What is Broadway?
200
an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theatre. His musicals include Company (1970) and Sweeney Todd (1979). He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for Sunday in the Park with George.
What is Stephen Sondheim?
200
Font part area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called the lip
What is apron?
300
an improvised kind of popular comedy in Italian theaters in the 16th-18th centuries
What is Commedia dell'arte?
300
In the early 1400's, the Japanese performed a very stylized and graceful form of theatre called ____________ Theatre, in which the actors always wore masks.
What is Noh?
300
A musical where a man, deformed since birth, lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with an obscure chorus singer and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and demanding she be given lead roles.
What is Phantom of the Opera?
300
an American playwright and author of many stage classics. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller he is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th-century American drama. He became suddenly famous with The Glass Menagerie (1944), closely reflecting his own unhappy family background. This heralded a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), and Sweet Bird of Youth (1959)
What is Tennessee Williams?
300
Type of performance space that is small, created out of a room, painted all black; the scenery can be arranged in any way inside the box
What is black box?
400
The correct order of the rehearsal process.
What is Blocking Rehearsal-Tech Rehearsal-Dress Rehearsal?
400
A style of performing that is realistic in its enactment.
What is Representational Style of Acting?
400
The skill that would be the most helpful for rehearsing a production of Oklahoma
What is piano performance?
400
a prolific American playwright, essayist, and prominent figure in twentieth-century American theatre. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge
What is Arthur Miller?
400
Something that you put it front of a lighting instrument to project an image.
What is GOBO?
500
Plot, character, theme, diction, music, spectacle.
What is Aristotle's Six Components of Tragedy?
500
a general movement that began in the 19th-century theatre, around the 1870s, and remained present through much of the 20th century. It developed a set of dramatic and theatrical conventions with the aim of bringing a greater fidelity of real life to texts and performances.
What is theatrical realism?
500
A musical in which a modern day Romeo and Juliet are involved in New York street gangs. On the harsh streets of the upper west side, two gangs battle for control of the turf. The situation becomes complicated when a gang members falls in love with a rival's sister.
What is West Side Story?
500
Two Englishmen of the nineteenth century who wrote many witty operettas satirizing society of the Victorian period (see satire ). W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert wrote the song lyrics and spoken dialogue, and Arthur Sullivan wrote the music. Their works include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado, and The Pirates of Penzance.
What is Gilbert and Sullivan?
500
The __________ style of stage is the most popular and has an audience on one side, a pit, an apron, and a main drape.
What is proscenium?
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