Vocabularious
Theatre Etiquette
SmARTypants!
Middle School Musical
Let's Go to the Movies
100

This type of drama activity has no script and the performers make up the lines (dialogue) as they go (ad-lib)

What is improvisation?

100

Check your watch!  It is importance for the audience (and the performers) to be this 

What is on time?

100

Studying the humanities (the arts, languages, history, philosophy) helps grow vital parts of this organ in the body

What is the brain?

100

This movie showcased the life of circus owner P.T. Barnum

What is The Greatest Showman?

100

The 2018 Academy Award® (Oscar®) for best animated movie went to this Pixar movie about a boy named Miguel who wants to be a musician

What is Coco?

200

This type of acting uses only body language and facial expressions to convey the story

What is pantomime?

200

Make sure before you take your seat that you have visited this place in the building, the one with the sinks

What is the restroom?
200

Doing improvisation exercises helps to cultivate (develop) skills for critical thinking and solving these 

What are problems?

200

In the movie Frozen, in the song "Let It Go," this character sings about finally being free to use her powers 

Who is Elsa?

200

In the new series of films about dinosaurs, Owen (Chris Pratt) has his trusty velociraptor Blue by his side

What is Jurassic World?

300

This word means two things: a story that is performed or a genre that means a serious, non-funny story

What is drama?

300

The show is so good you want to send a pic to social media (SnapChat, Instagram, etc.), but please be awesome and turn this off before the show

What is a cell phone?

300

In life, it is advantageous (beneficial to) strengthen skills in communication, empathy, confidence, listening, and trust.  Taking this class will help to grow these skills

What is drama?

300

Tamatoa sings about being "Shiny" in this movie about a Polynesian girl

What is Moana?

300

Marvel Comics superheroes (and villains) are all over the silver screen lately.  After next year's Avengers movie, Robert Downey Jr. will have played this wealthy hero ten times!

Who is Tony Stark (Iron Man)?

400

In a theatre, this is the raised platform on which the performances take place

What is the stage?

400

Every performer wants the people they love in the audience, but it is important during the performance not call out from the seats to the actors.  It is this 

What is rude?  (Disrespectful, impolite, being a jerk)

400

Being creative helps you solve problems, think outside the box, be more confident, and successful. Creativity is a strong component (part) of the arts.  Getting out of your comfort zone helps you grow as a person and to become stronger.  One of the ways to do this is to perform stories for these people, the viewers  

What are audiences?

400

The STEP documentary (true story) is about a high school step team that try to go on to this place of higher education

What is college?

400

In this film, Meg Murry and her little brother, Charles Wallace, have been without their scientist father, Mr. Murry, for five years, ever since he discovered a new planet and used the concept known as a tesseract to travel there.

What is A Wrinkle in Time?

500

Another word for "category," this French word can be used for books, stories, songs or performances such as plays, television shows, and movies

What is genre?

500

During a live production (performance with actors onstage), do these two things before you get to the theatre so you don't get hungry or thirsty

What is eat and drink?

500

No everyone wants to act, but there is room in drama and theatre for everyone.  For example, you can design and make costumes, or build sets using math.  Some people work behind the scenes on technical drama skills, like working the lights and the sound.  Working in creative situations will help you express these

What are emotions or feelings?

500

People can't decide if this is a Christmas movie... or a Halloween one.  But most of us love this musical directed by Tim Burton and starring characters Jack and Sally

What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?

500

Based on the New York Times bestseller, this movie tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters the fifth grade,attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

What is Wonder?