Who Am I?
I design the costumes performers will wear in a production.
Who is the Costume Designer?
A singular dancer who expresses their thoughts and feelings without uttering words. The soloist’s movements can describe sadness, loneliness, triumph, joy, or fear.
What is a solo?
Most or all of the story is sung, regardless of whether the performer is loving, fighting, dying, laughing, or crying.
What is an opera?
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
What is Satire?
The orchestral music played before the curtain opens.
What is the Overture?
I create all of the scenery that will be used throughout a musical.
Who is the Scenic Designer?
A dance involving Two Dancers, usually a man and a woman or a boy and a girl.
What is Pas de Deux (Duet)?
A less serious form of opera, both in content and complexity of music. Its dialogue is spoken, not sung with much of its music based on Viennese waltz.
What is an Operetta?
The action of expressing or stating something too strongly; exaggeration.
What is Overstatement?
Songs that closely follow regular speech patterns. They have a narrow melodic range, are delivered in a sing-song manner with tightly strung, rhyming lyrics. The delight of such songs is their face-paced patter.
What is a Patter Song?
I write the lyrics of each song in a musical score.
Who is the Lyricist?
Involves Many Dancers and can establish the atmosphere of a scene while moving the plot along. Requires great precision and practice. It gives color and excitement to a musical production.
What is a Production Number?
Musicals that pack more meaning in their stories, probe deeper into the personalities of the characters, and present more innovative music.
What is a Musical Play?
The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important that it actually is.
What is Understatement?
A song from earlier in the performance sung again with the same words, or with new words set to the previous melody. It is frequently one of the best songs in the show, is pleasing to the audience, and generally restates the theme of the book or sums up the moral of the story.
What is a Reprise?
I create all of the dances and movement in a musical.
Who is the Choreographer?
This dance can tell a complete story by itself without words with only the movement of the dancers. It can include solo and duet sequences as well as a large group of dancers.
What is a Ballet?
Musicals made specifically for film, the majority of them only for entertainment with stories of little depth.
What is a Movie Musical?
The manipulation of language (in particular, the sounds and meanings of words) with the intent to amuse.
What is Word Play?
The last song of a musical that closes the story, if not with a happy ending at least with a feeling that the problem has been solved.
What is the Finale?
I manage the stage production, select and rehearse the cast, and pull the music, dance, scenery, costume, and lighting designs together into the finished product.
Who is the Stage Director?
The first musical to include ballet in a dance sequence telling a complete story.
What is Slaughter on Tenth Avenue from the musical On Your Toes?
A stage musical or musical film in which a majority of the songs are well-known popular music songs, rather than original music.
What is a Jukebox Musical?
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
What is Onomatopoeia?
Song that incorporate the ENTIRE COMPANY.
What is a Chorus Song?