Musical Theatre
It is a musical that is based off of an already popular music recording or artist
What is a jukebox musical
A plan or map with each light's location, color, and kind of instrument.
What is a light plot?
A style of theatre centered around fantastical elements, such as sci-fi, or fantasy.
What is Non-realism?
These are two types of daily acting
What is imitation, and roleplaying
This is the difference between a prop and scenery.
What is manipulation by an actor
He was regarded as the greatest stage performer of the 1920's
Who is Al Jolson
These are the two types of sound effects in theatre
What are motivated sounds and environmental sounds
An emotional preparation that happens between an audience and a theatre performance
What is Psychological priming
A director that may use deconstruction to alter or change the script.
What is a post-modern director
A complete drawing of a design usually in color.
What is a rendering
The time period of "The Golden Age" of musicals.
What are the 1940's-1960's
Name three of the objectives of a lighting designer.
What are to provide visibility, reveal shapes and forms, provide a focus onstage, assist in creating mood and reinforcing style, help establish time and place, establish a rhythm of visual movement, and reinforce a central visual image, establish visual information, or both.
This is what Blanche calls her late husband
Who is "the boy"
This is the technical term for directed movement on stage.
What is blocking
This is a technique used by costume designers to show wear and tear on a costume
What is distressing
They were the "Godfathers of Musical Theatre", and they instigated the change from opera into musical theatre.
Who are Gilbert and Sullivan
Name the four properties of light.
What are color, intensity, distribution, and movement.
This is the name of the offstage area.
What are the wings
He was the father of modern acting, and he had a system of rules and laws to help create organic human behavior on stage.
Who is Contstantine Stanislavski
The five elements of set design.
What is line, mass, composition, texture, and color
Name three different musical theatre convention songs.
What is the "Sitting on the rock"/"I want" "Hypothetical love duet" and "The Showstopper"
Fabric that is opaque when light is shined at it, but turns translucent when you shine light behind it.
What is a Scrim
In playwriting, they are referred to as these two terms, from the Greek for "player of the first part" and "opponent," respectively?
What is the Protagonist and the Antagonist
These are the six Stanislavski elements we went over in class.
What is Concentration, Relaxation, Magic If, Given Circumstances, Objective, and Action or Psychological action.
These are the objectives of the designers
What is style and tone, period and locale, relationships and personality, central image, meeting the needs of the perfromers, consistant with directors vision, and cohesion with other design elements.