Musical Terms
Musicals Terms 2
Musical Staff
Types of Musicals
Musicals We've Seen
100
This is the music that introduces the play, featuring a medley of the major numbers.
What is the overture?
100
This is the line immediately preceding a song, acting as a cue for the pit orchestra.
What is the lead-in line?
100
This person is in charge of backstage operations, calling cues, and managing brush-up rehearsals.
Who is the stage manager?
100
This genre consists entirely of vocal and instrumental music.
What is an opera?
100
Hairspray addresses themes of racism and civil rights in this place and historical era.
What is 1960s Baltimore?
200
To repeat a measure or phrase until a performer is ready.
What is vamping?
200
This is music played beneath the dialogue.
What is the underscore?
200
This person is the secondary male lead, like Kenickie in Grease or Riff in West Side Story.
Who is the sidekick?
200
This is a series of loosely connected songs and vignettes, usually centered around a theme or a single composer.
What is a revue?
200
Professor Higgins realizes that he is in love with Eliza Doolittle in this number.
What is "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"?
300
This is the music that precedes the second act.
What is the entr'acte?
300
This is a style of singing that closer to speaking.
What is recitative style?
300
This person creates a budget and hires the production staff.
Who is the producer?
300
This is usually an interactive show set in a small, intimate venue.
What is cabaret?
300
"Motormouth" Maybelle Stubbs sings about the history of the civil rights movement and the symbolism of light in this number.
What is "I Know Where I've Been"?
400
This is the script of a musical accompanied by lyrics and music.
What is the libretto?
400
This is a short scene played in front of the curtain while scenery is changed behind it.
What is a crossover?
400
This person writes the script of the musical.
Who is the librettist?
400
This satirical genre is the forerunner of the modern musical, and includes the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.
What is a comic opera?
400
My Fair Lady addresses themes of social class in this place and historical era.
What is Edwardian London (1901-1910)?
500
This is a large scale number featuring complex choreography and many singers.
What is a production number?
500
This is music that continues from one scene into the next.
What is a segue?
500
This is the secondary female lead, like Rizzo in Grease.
Who is the soubrette?
500
This style uses the existing work of one artist or band and builds a show around it, like Mamma Mia! uses the work of ABBA.
What is a jukebox musical?
500
This style uses techniques like a play within a play or characters that act as "playwrights" or "directors."
What is metatheater or metadrama?
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