Vocab
Musicals
Our Classroom
Drama Roles
Harder Vocab
100

Moveable items used by actors during a play

Props

100

What was the musical we watched in class?

Newsies

100

Your awesome peer tutors names 🥹 (with correct pronunciation)

Samaria and Alana❤️❤️😍🥰😘🥳🤯🤯🤯

100

Responsible for the visual appearance of characters

Costume/Makeup designer

100

The act of a character telling their inner thoughts and feelings to the audience. ALL other characters are in tableau 

Soliloquy

200

The ability to put yourself in the shoes of the character you are preforming and pretend they are truly real

Actors Belief :)

200

 Created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, this musical tells the life story of America’s Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton

Hamilton 

200

The teacher who owns this drama room and is head of the entire theatre department (the man in the side office)

Mr. Rossiter!

200

Creator/designer for the physical background of a play

Set designer

200

A second-round audition where casting directors ask a select group of actors to return after an initial audition

Call-back auditions
300

Precise staging, planning and choreography of actors movements

Blocking
300

The 2003 musical based on The Wizard if Oz. Recently got a 2024 movie-musical remake

Wicked

300

The name of the large stage behind you (with the stairs that you can preform on)

Bob

300

Someone who learns the lead role(s) in case the lead can’t make it on the day they preform

Understudy

300

An extra extension that projects forward towards the audience 

Apron

400
Preforming dialogue/movement that wasn’t originally written in the script

Improvisation/improv 

400
Originally a late 1910’s book, this 1980’s musical is a tragic love story between a young singer and a disfigured musical genius with a white mask

The Phantom of the Opera

400

Name all scripts that were first preformed that your peer tutors graciously wrote (not the ones you are preforming now)

Rapunzel’s Auditions, The Ugly Duckling, Hansel and Gretal, Little Red Riding Hood, The Laughing Prince

400

Professional who helps actors to find, pitch, and secure acting roles in film, television, and theatre

Talent agent

400

Name all stage directions

Downstage left, centre, right. Centre left centre, right. Upstage left, centre, right

500
You call out “____” to someone with the script when you don’t remember what you’re suppose to say

“Line!”

500

A romcom set on a Greek island about Sophie, who secretly invites three men from her mother’s past to her wedding, hoping to find her biological father (being preformed by our schools theatre company)

Mamma Mia!

500

Name all your classmates 😂

Daman, Chloe, Nicolas, Luke, Parth, Sahaj, Nico, Mason, Moatassem, Julia, Hummnah, Yuwa, Destiny, Kiyan, Ishaan, Anaruv, Manny, Griffan, Ezaz, Great, Daniel

500

Security who enforces the venues roles i.e checking bags, and shows you to your seat 

Bouncer

500

Four-part harmony roles, not including mezzo (hint: SATB)

Soprano, alto, tenor, bass