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MRHS Theatre
100
Tracy Turnblad, Link Larkin, Corny Collins
What is Hairspray?
100
Times Square in NYC was originally called this.
What is Long Acre Square?
100
This cheap fabric can be used to make mock-ups of costumes, or in combination with a wood frame to create soft flats.
What is muslin?
100
This rival high school will produce Arsenic & Old Lace this fall.
What is Weddington?
100
This play about a giant invisible rabbit was the first one performed at MRHS, before Sims got here.
What is Harvey?
200
Danny Zuko, Sandy Dumbrowski, Betty Rizzo
What is Grease?
200
This spectacular Greek convention allowed a god character to fly in and solve a problem.
What is deus ex machina?
200
The name for a curtain that moves across the length of the stage, usually parting in the middle.
What is a traveler?
200
The Union County Performance Ensemble will produce this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical later this year.
What is Phantom of the Opera?
200
This play of 2008 was the most well attended, even though production values have improved greatly since then.
What is Alice in Wonderland?
300
Tevye, Yente, Lazar Wolf
What is Fiddler on the Roof?
300
This Renaissance convention that looked like a monster was mounted on a wagon and featured fire and smoke.
What is the Hell's Mouth?
300
This color is said to be slimming because it absorbs light, making the form it covers look smaller.
What is black?
300
Mazelin, Sims and JP worked on The Music Man at this local theater, which has been around for over 80 years.
What is Theatre Charlotte?
300
The Servant of Two Masters, a 300 year old Italian comedy included masks and half a dozen doors onstage. It was written by this man.
Who is Carlo Goldoni?
400
Madame Morrible, Dr. Dillamond, Boq
What is Wicked?
400
The theatre that made Shakespeare's work famous.
What is The Globe?
400
This short curtain tantalizes the audience by not allowing them to see the light sources above the stage.
What is a teaser?
400
This professional theatre houses a junior ambassador program, as well as the new Blumey Awards.
What is the Blumenthal?
400
This production that involved traveling through a closet included a cast of 50, the largest cast of a single MRHS production to date.
What is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
500
Ugly, Bullfrog, Jay Bird
What is Honk!?
500
In Commedia dell Arte, a typical troupe of performers consisted of three women and this many men.
What is seven?
500
Dementors regulate Azkaban. These regulate the width of the stage.
What are tormentors?
500
It's a 'miracle' that this local theatre group produces some of the same plays as MRHS.
What is Matthews Playhouse?
500
The Cave, a play about 12 characters who come together for the purpose of an improvisation, was written by this man.
What is Tim Kelly.
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