Improv
Stages of Theatre
Musicals
Warm-Up Friday
Vocabulary
100

Making an offer or action irrelevant.

What is Cancelling

100

This theatre has the audience members sit on all four sides.  It is also a place that hosts sporting events.

What is an Arena?

100

This musical is set in the fictional city Bikini Bottoms which is located in the ocean.  It is based off a Nickelodeon cartoon.

What is Spongebob Squarepants the Broadway Musical?

100

Professional pumpkin pickers pick the ___________ pumpkins.

What are the Plumpest?

100

The middle of the playing area or stage.

What is Center Stage?

200

Different types of events in improv competitions.

What are Challenges?

200

This part of the stage is closest to the audience.  It gets it's name from when stages us to be slanted causing the actors to walk on a decline when they got closer to the front of the stage.

What is Downstage?

200

This musical tells a story of forgotten Founding Father and his rise from poverty to power during the American War of Independence.

What is Hamilton?

200

If a black bug bleeds black blood, what color blood does a ________ bug bleed? 

What is Blue?

200

A piece of theatre where music, song, and dance play an integral part in the storytelling.

What is a Musical?

300

An offer that gives characteristics or attributes to a fellow performer’s character.

What is Endow

300

This particular stage has the audience members sit on three sides of the stage.  The name also appears in the tongue twister, "He __________ his fist against the post and still insists he sees the ghost.

What is a Thrust?

300

This musical is a modern twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales in a musical format that follows the classic tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel-all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife, their wish to begin a family and their interaction with the witch who has put a curse on them.

What is Into the Woods?

300

If two __________ would watch two watches.  Which __________ would watch which watch?

What is Witches?

300

A moment in a script that covers a single idea or action.

What is a Beat?

400

To accept the offers made by other performers.

What is Accepting?

400

A curtain that is hung on the side of the playing space. Used to hide actors and scenery.  Also something you pull when you are teasing a gullible person.

What is a Leg?

400

The musical concerns a deceased couple who try to haunt the new inhabitants of their former home and call for help from a devious bio-exorcist ghost who is summoned by saying his name three times.

What is Beetlejuice?

400

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a ________.

What is a Bear?

400

To fill a space with sound, without hurting the voice.

What is Projection?

500

Moving a scene forward.

What is advancing?

500

A flexible performance space that is painted completely black.  

What is a Black Box?

500

This musical is a radical retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet, focusing on Simba, a young lion prince who must accept his past and face his destiny for the good of his people… well, animals. When Simba is born, his uncle Scar is pushed one step further away from ruling the majestic Serengeti.

What is The Lion King?

500

Betty Botter bought some butter but she said this butter is __________.

What is Bitter?

500

A lighting cue that turns all the lights off suddenly.

What is a Blackout?

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