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Stage Craft Tools
Musicals
Commonly Read/Performed Plays
Stage Acting Basics
100

This person portrays a character on stage.

What is an actor?

100

Used for creating precise cuts and shaping wood, this hand tool features a serrated edge. 

What is a saw?

100

This Lin-Manuel Miranda musical tells the story of a "forgotten" American founding father through a blend of hip-hop and traditional musical styles.

What is Hamilton?

100

In this play by Lorraine Hansberry, a working-class black American family strives for a better life in a predominately white neighborhood.

What is A Raisin in the Sun?

100

This term refers to the practice of rehearsing lines until the script is known by heart.

What is memorization?

200

This person is in charge of the entire show; they make the overall decisions for the look and theme of a show.

What is the director?

200

This power tool is used to quickly assemble and disassemble set pieces using screws.

What is a drill?

200

This 1971 hit musical features Danny Zuko, Sandy Dumbrowski, and a song called "Summer Nights."

What is Grease?

200

This commonly read play features a feud between two Italian families.

What is Romeo and Juliet?

200

When an actor speaks loudly enough for everyone in the audience to clearly hear, they are using this voice technique.

What is projecting?

300

This position involves managing the day-to-day operations of the stage during rehearsals and shows, including coordinating scene changes.

What is the stage manager?

300

This tool is used to measure distances and lengths and is retractable.

What is a measuring tape?

300

This musical, set in a post-apocalyptic world, features the song "Defying Gravity" and will be released as a film this November.

What is Wicked?

300

August Wilson wrote this play to show the experience of the average black family in 1950's urban America. (Hint: It's one of Colleen's faves.)

What is Fences?

300

This is where an actor is supposed to stand and how the actor is supposed to position their body on stage.

What is blocking?

400

This position is in charge of the clothing actors will wear on stage.

What is a costume designer?

400

This tool, which uses a heating element and solid-to-liquid bonder to attach materials, is often used in costuming and set design for quick repairs.

What is a glue gun?

400

In this 1960 musical, based on a comic strip, the main characters are an orphan and a rich man who adopts her.

What is Annie?

400

In this Shakespearean tragedy, the lead becomes King after murdering Duncan, but loses everything in the end due to his ambition.

What is Macbeth?

400

This is the process where two actors sharing dialogue on stage face at 45 degree angles instead of directly towards each other.

What is cheating out?

500

This position ensures that the stage, actors, and action are highlighted properly to create the desired mood.

What is the lighting designer?

500

This tool comes in a variety of sizes from tiny to over 3 inches wide and is used to apply liquid coloring to a variety of surfaces.

What is a paint brush?

500

This Lin-Manuel Miranda 2018 musical explores the lives and dreams of the residents of Washington Heights.

What is In the Heights?

500

This play showing the correlation between the Red Scare and the Salem Witch Trials was written by Arthur Miller and will be performed by the HML Drama Club this year.

What is The Crucible?

500
Many well-known actors, like Vincent D'Onofrio and Heath Ledger, immerse themselves completely into a role, even living it in real life, in order to portray it convincingly using this acting style.

What is method acting?

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