Circus
Well known contemporary circus company originally from Canada-
What is cirque du soleil
- What is the name of the performer who used a rod puppet named Madame in his singing and comedy shows?
Wayland Flowers
Who developed the theory of biomechanics?
-Meyerhold
Who won the 2014 Tony award for Best Musical?
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
To convey characters and emotions clearly to audiences sitting incredibly far away from the stage, Greek actors adopted these
What are masks
Theatre associated with horses-
Hippodrama
- Name three of August Wilson’s Plays from the Pittsburgh cycle.
Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars, Fences, Two Trains Running, Jitney, King Hedley II, Radio Golf
Who developed the technique of method acting?
What was the first Broadway musical with an all-female creative team?
Waitress
First used for the Dutch musical Soldier of Orange, the theatrical technology SceneAround sees the audience doing this in relation to the stage
What is rotating
Former military officer who is known as the "father of modern circus"-
Philip Astley
What type of comedy was commonly used by Charlie Chaplin and other mime performers?
Slapstick
Which technique has a more heightened sense of reality?
What was the first Broadway musical?
The Black Crook
Audiences remained illuminated by as much light as stages until the 19th-century implementation of this new light source
What is gas lamp
Peter Schumann's company in Vermont
Bread and Puppet
What country did Avrom Goldfadn flee from due to heavy anti-semitism?
Romania
What was Stella Adler’s technique?
-Imagination and individuality
The “Concept Musical” is most usually tied to which composer?
Steven Sondheim
To create a recognizable environment for audiences, Adolphe Lemoine Montigny placed this object in centre stage, revolutionizing theater forever
What is a table?
The piece of legislation that censored types of theatre in Britain that tried to stop circus
What is the 1737 Licensing Act.
Who wore masks in Ancient Greek theatre?
Men in the chorus (must specify men only)
Which one of these people did not use Stanislavsky’s techniques for their own acting methods?
Uta Hagen, Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, Lee Starsburg
5: Which one of these people did not use Stanislavsky’s techniques for their own acting methods?
Uta Hagen, Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, Lee Starsburg
-Sanford Meisner
Howard Ashman and Alan Mencken wrote the music for the Little Mermaid, which Broadway song sounds eerily similar to “Part of Your World”?
Somewhere that’s Green
In the Boerenkermis painting by Pieter Balten, a spectator is handing this object to a person hiding backstage
What is a stool