Who said it?
Who'd it happen too?
Vocab
Tech
Terminology
200

"But you said, "the man we have called..." as if we had made up his name"

Narrator 2/ Maddie

200

Suffers eternal damnation

Marley

200

wretched

Extremely unhappy, poor, or miserable

200

The physical tearing down and packing up of the set after a show closes

strike

200

Angling your body toward the audience so they can see and hear you better, even when talking to another actor

Cheating out

400

"Let me leave it alone, then. Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!"

Scrooge/Nolan

400

Suffers intense neglect as a child, left completely alone at a boarding school

Young scrooge

400

Covetous

Wanting something that belongs to someone else

400

A plastic sheet that goes in a frame is front of a light to change its color

Gels

400

Common direction given to actors who are hard to hear, facing back, or need to support their voice

Project

600

"Tis' a small matter, to make these silly folks do full of gratitude"

Past/Ezra

600

Suffers from a severe physical illness that leads to his early death

Tim

600

Desolate

Empty, lonely, or abandoned

600

A specialized fabric that appears completely opaque when lit from the front, but becomes translucent when lit from behind

Scrim...

600

Making up or improvising lines and actions when you forget text or something goes wrong

Ad-lib

800

"In words. No. Never."

Belle/Jewel

800

Loses his business in harsh economic times in the alternate dark future, though he is happy in the present

Fezziwig

800

Miserly

Unwilling to spend or give away money

800

Heavy pipe or wooden bar that is suspended horizontally over the stage to hang scenery, curtains, or lighting instruments

Battens

800
A trigger signal such as a line of dialogue, action, or sound that tells an actor or tech to execute the next part of the show

Cue

1000

"Hurrah"

Tim/Travis

1000

Appear as wretched, deformed, and starving creatures

ignorance and Want

1000

Uncooth

Unmannered

1000

A rehearsal that involves running through cues without any actors present.

Dry tech

1000

This blocking direction instructs an actor to stand diagonally downstage or upstage from another performer, ensuring neither blocks the others sightline

staggering/levels