Acting Basics
This term describes how loudly or softly an actor speaks.
Volume
This person is in charge of the overall visual and storytelling vision of the production.
The director
A conversation between two or more characters on stage.
Dialogue
This play features a group of newsboys striking against newspaper publishers.
Newsies
What Disney movie was turned into a Broadway show featuring characters like Simba and Rafiki?
The Lion King
This acting term refers to the specific places on stage where actors stand or move.
Stage Areas OR blocking
The term for objects used by actors on stage.
Props
The movements and positioning of actors on stage.
Blocking
This musical is set in the 1950s and features a high school romance between Sandy and Danny.
Grease
Who starred as Alexander Hamilton in the original Broadway cast of Hamilton?
Lin-Manuel Miranda
This principle involves ensuring your body and face are open to the audience during a performance.
Cheating/Opening Out
This type of light focuses a hard beam on a specific spot on stage.
Spotlight
This type of theatrical performance does not use spoken dialogue and instead relies on music/sound and movement.
Pantomime
This Stephen Schwartz musical tells the untold story of the witches of Oz.
Wicked
What does it mean when a costume is “pulled”?
It is taken form storage/something you already have.
Acting without planned actions/words.
Improv
The backstage area where actors wait before coming on stage.
Green room OR wings
The person who designs the set.
Set Designer
This Stephen Sondheim musical intertwines classic fairy tales, such as "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Jack and the Beanstalk"
Into The Woods
What superstition says it is bad luck to say the name of a certain Shakespeare play inside a theatre?
Macbeth
A stage direction telling an actor to move away from the audience.
Upstage
The area above the stage where scenery and lights are stored. (Think Mary Poppins)
Fly System
Where we get the terms "upstage" and "downstage" from.
Renaissance Era, Raked stages.
This Rodgers and Hammerstein musical is set in Oklahoma Territory in the early 20th century.
Oklahoma
What is the name of the longest-running Broadway musical?
The Phantom of the Opera