This versatile space does not have fixed seating and therefore can be used in a variety of ways.
What is a Black Box?
100
Musical theatre combines these three humanities.
What are Drama, Dance and Music?
100
This person is responsible for all the clothing actors wear on stage.
Who is the Costume Designer?
100
Specific items that adorn the set or that actors hold, carry or use.
What are Props?
200
The main idea or point of a script.
What is the Theme?
200
All entrances must be made through the audience, as they are on all sides of the stage.
What is an Arena stage?
200
This team, whose hits include "South Pacific" and "Carousel" are credited with reinventing the Musical.
Who are Rodgers and Hammerstein?
200
This person is in charge of supplying the funding for a production.
Who is the Producer?
200
This element insures that the audience is able to see the performance. It may be simple or highly stylized to create different effects.
What is Lighting?
300
The series of events depicted in a script. In a well crafted play each event influences those that come after.
What is the Plot?
300
The most common type of stage, the audience is situated on only one side.
What is a Proscenium stage?
300
This Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about a love triangle between a young girl, a cowboy and a farm hand was the first to completely fuse song, script and dance.
What is "Oklahoma!"
300
The people hired to perform the script on stage.
Who are the Actors?
300
The system of pulleys and poles (called battens) used to store scenery above the stage.
What is a Fly System?
400
All of the visual elements of a production are part of this element.
What is Spectacle?
400
A thrust stage is unique from other types of stages because it has audience members seated on this many sides.
What is Three?
400
The longest running show in Broadway history is this Andrew Lloyd Weber musical.
What is "The Phantom of the Opera"?
400
This person is in charge of the overall artistic vision of a play.
Who is the Director?
400
The car, the platforms and the tunnel on stage in the musical "Cats" were all part of this.
What is the Set?
500
Drama is a unique Literary form because it is meant for this as opposed to being read.
What is Performance (to be performed).
500
Breaking this imaginary structure is achieved when an actor speaks directly to or acknowledges the audience.
What is the Fourth Wall?
500
Julie Andrews, the host of the Musical documentary we watched in class, turned down a role in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Pipe Dream" to star in this musical.
What is "My Fair Lady"?
500
This person must create the scenery that the actors will perform on.
Who is the Set Designer?
500
This element can be used to turn people into a variety of fantastical creatures, but it is also used to prevent actors from looking washed out by the lighting.