Key Terms
What do you call the "break" in between acts of a play?
Intermission
When you are an actor in a play facing the audience and you walk to your right.
Stage right
The story of two unlikely friends, Elphaba and Galinda, who struggle through opposing personalities and viewpoints, rivalry over the same love-interest, reactions to the Wizard's corrupt government, and, ultimately, Elphaba's private fall from grace.
Wicked
Never say "Good Luck!"
What should you say instead?
Break a leg!
What do the 2 masks represent that symbolize theatre as an art?
Comedy & Tragedy
Audition
The very edge of the stage, closest to the audience.
Downstage
The story takes place on a Greek island in the present day, and centers around a young girl named Sophie who dreams of a white wedding, with her father giving her away at the altar. Problem is, she doesn't know who her dad is, but she's got three possible dads, and has invited them all to the wedding.
Mamma Mia!
What is the proper response to a stage manager telling you "5 minutes to places."
Thank you, 5.
When an actor speaks directly to the audience, they are "breaking the __________."
Fourth wall
What do you call the sequence of steps and movements in a staged dance?
Choreography
The very middle of the stage floor.
Center stage
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York.
RENT
If it's not your prop, __________.
Don't touch it!
What do you call the light left on the stage of a theater after shows to please the theater ghosts.
Ghost light
What do you call the bows at the end of a show?
Curtain call
The direction you are going when you are walking away from the audience toward the back of the stage.
Upstage
Nightclub sensation Velma murders her philandering husband, and the city's slickest lawyer, Billy Flynn, is set to defend her. But when Roxie also winds up in prison, Billy takes on her case as well -- turning her into a media circus of headlines. Neither woman will be outdone in their fight against each other and the public for fame and celebrity.
Chicago
It's not called "practice," it's called __________.
Rehearsal
What do you call comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events?
Slapstick
What do you call the person who learns another's role in order to be able to act as a replacement at short notice?
Understudy
When you are watching a play, and the actor onstage moves to the right they are moving...
Stage left
A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
Kinky Boots
Who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production?
Director
Name the tragedy written by William Shakespeare that is commonly referred to as "The Scottish Play" because it is bad luck to say the name of the play inside of a theater.
Macbeth