What do you Noh?
This type of performance involved the use of large puppets operated by multiple puppeteers
What is Bunraku?
The Golden Age of Musical Theatre is generally considered to encompass these two decades.
What is 1940s and 1950s?
These decades encompass what is referred to as the "pre-contemporary" period of American musical theatre.
What are the 1970s-1990s?
Contemporary musical theatre begins in this year.
What is the year 2000?
This theatre term describes the technique needed to make sure the audience can hear the performer.
What is projection?
An actor looking at their fingernails as a character choice in a scene is utilizing this point of focus.
What is the self/the body?
Intense physicality and dramatic makeup characterized this style of Japanese theatre
What is Kabuki?
The Golden Age was so-called for these reasons.
What are: when musical reached the height of its popularity, a period when a huge number of classic musicals were produced.
These features were common in pre-contemporary musical theatre.
What are big spectacles, large casts, and dramatic anthem songs?
Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia, and Beautiful are all examples of this type of musical.
If an actor is difficult to understand, they need to work on this.
What is diction?
What is looking at your partner?
Noh theatre had these three characteristics.
What are masks, male actors, and slow stylized music?
other acceptable characteristics: music, four pillar stage, three actors/characters
This duo were behind many of the most popular musicals of the Golden Age.
Who are Rodgers and Hammerstein?
These shows are classics of the precontemporary theatre.
What are Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera and Miss Saigon?
(MANY other acceptable answers here including Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Into the Woods and dozens of others.)
One trend in Contemporary musical theatre was to move away from the big sweeping epics of the pre-contemporary era toward stories that were like this.
What is smaller, more intimate stories. (e.g. Dear Evan Hansen, Fun Home, Next to Normal)
Blocking should have these three characteristics
What are planned, motivated and specific movements?
This focal point woulld be a strong choice for an actor portraying a character who is lost in thought.
Noh theatre had these five types of plays.
What are God plays, Wig Plays, Warrior Plays, Demon Plays and Madwoman plays?
This all-American classic kicked off the Golden Age of musical theatre.
What is "Oklahoma!"
This pre-contemporary musical features a turn-table and a large barricade
What is Les Miserables?
This trend in contemporary music theatre reflects an unwillingness on the part of producers to make risky investments on new stories.
What is a large focus on musicals based on content (movies, books, etc) with an existing fan base, e.g. Legally Blonde, Mean Girls, Frozen, Catch Me If You Can, The Addams Family, Beetlejuice, etc. etc. etc.)
Deeper scene work cannot be achieved until this actor has done this.
Also acceptable:
What is character/scene analysis?
An actor playing a character experiencing a revelation might choose to use this point of focus.
What is looking into the void/looking outside the self?
This many puppeteers were need to operate the puppets in Bunraku theatre.
What are three puppeteers?
This ahead-of-its-time 1920s musical was a sign of things to come and hinted that American musical theatre was heading toward the Golden Age.
What is "Showboat?"
Singers moved away from both pure "legit" singing and pure "belt" singing toward a style called "mixing" which blended elements of belt and legit together.
What is a pop sound?
This rhyming phrase reminds actors to focus not only on their own performance, but on how their partner's performance is affecting them.
"Acting is reacting"
What is looking at the immediate environment?