Musical Theatre
Terms & Vocabulary
Theatre Facts
Theatre Ashbury
People
100
This character has three potential dads in the musical Mamma Mia

Sophie

100
This is the area of the stage that is closest to the audience

Downstage

100

This ancient civilization is considererd the birthplace of Western Theatre

Ancient Greece

100

This musical, featuring the song "Oh My God You Guys" was performed at Ashbury in 2016

Legally Blonde

100

This playwright wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespeare

200

This Broadway musical features the song “Defying Gravity.”

Wicked

200

This lighting term refers to the darkness onstage before or after a scene

Blackout
200

This style of theatre developed in Italy, and features stock characters

Commedia dell'Arte

200

This play, featuring the characters of Wendy, Michael, and George, was performed at Ashbury in 2015

Peter Pan
200

This composer wrote the music for the shows Into the Woods and West Side Story 

Stephen Sondheim

300

This musical features a song called "She Used to be Mine"

Waitress

300

This term refers to the imaginary space between the audience and the stage 

The Fourth Wall

300

This show holds the title of longest-running Broadway show, with over 13,000 performances. 

The Phantom of the Opera

300

Finish the lyric: "Baby we were makin' straight a's, but we were stuck ___ ___ ___ ___"

in a dumb daze

300

This actor played the role of Jack Kelly in the musical Newsies

Jeremy Jordan

400

This musical is set in the town of Gander, Newfoundland 

Come From Away

400

This rehearsal happens just before opening and includes all technical elements.

Dress Rehearsal

400

This object is still left on the stage of many theatres, so it is never completely dark.

A Ghost Light

400

This play featured a clock motif in the set design

Radium Girls

400

This singer wrote all the music and lyrics for the musical Waitress

Sara Bareilles

500

Veronica and JD are the lead characters in which musical?

Heathers

500

These outdoor performance spaces were designed for acoustics and could seat thousands.

Amphitheatres

500

A female actor first appeared in a Shakespeare play in this year, 44 years after Shakespeare's death.

1660

500

This musical featured the song "Summer Nights"

Grease

500

This actor is in Off-Campus and on Broadway in the musical In Pieces

Anthony Cipriano