POTPOURRI
MUSICALS!
ACTING
DIRECTING
DESIGN
100
Earliest known ritual drama festival, nearly 4,000 years ago, in Egypt.
What is Abydos?
100
Musical form that had its beginnings in Italy around 1600.
What is opera?
100
The two categories of role playing in daily life.
What are "social" and "personal"?
100
The controlling or central vision that unifies a production
What is the "concept"?
100
Generally, the first visual information an audience sees in a theatre.
What is scenery?
200
Teacher, student, dentist, boss, employee, are examples of this type of role in daily life.
Whay are "social roles"?
200
1927 landmark musical, featuring interracial marriage as a subplot, and produced by Florenz Ziegfeld.
What is "Showboat"?
200
An actor’s “job interview” for a role:
What is an audition?
200
When the director deliberately puts someone who does not appear to be right for the part in a role.
What is "casting against type"?
200
Scenery, along with proscenium theatres, appeared first in this country.
What is Italy?
300
A nonrealistic, stylized production is referred to as:
What is "presentational"?
300
Songwriting team responsible for Oklahoma! and many other Broadway hits between 1943 – 1959.
Who are Rodgers and Hammerstein?
300
These people serve as the direct, immediate contact that the audience has with the theatre.
What are actors?
300
The director's vision of where the actors will move
What is "blocking"?
300
One goal or objective of scene design:
What is "establish locale," "reflect the theme/concept," "set the mood," "provide physical environment," etc.
400
This Lorraine Hansberry play was based on her family’s personal experience.
What is "A Raisin in the Sun"?
400
This multimillion-dollar entertainment organization began producing Broadway musicals in 1994.
What is Disney?
400
Differing from acting in real life, a theatrical performer is always _________ of his/her performance.
What is "conscious"?
400
Type of rehearsal bringing together all technical elements and costumes
What is a dress rehearsal?
400
Stage setting that very closely resembles its counterpart in daily life.
Who is "realistic"?
500
San Quentin Drama Workshop first produced this tragicomedy in 1957.
What is a "Waiting for Godot"?
500
Pulitzer Prize-winner from 1975, based on the hopes and dreams of Broadway dancers.
What is "A Chorus Line"?
500
The driving force, or what a character WANTS during the course of the play.
What is "superobjective"?
500
Type of director who significantly alters a script, and controls virtually every aspect of a production
What is "auteur"?
500
Visual representation, scenically, of a play’s central theme.
What is a "visual metaphor"?
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