On Broadway
Broadway is actually a street in the middle of an area with many famous theaters. This street is located in this city.
What is New York City?
Movies are in color now, but they used to be in...
What is black and white?
We watch this on TV to find out what is going on in our city, country and the world.
What is the news?
What is The Sound of Music?
The title of the person who tells everyone where to stand and how to say their lines.
What is the director?
The popular Broadway musical that uses rap music and starred Lin Manuel Miranda. Everyone wants to be in "the room where it happened."
What is Hamilton?
Sometimes we wear special glasses to watch this kind of movie.
What is 3D?
Another word for TV shows that are "animated," which means characters are created on a computer to be like drawings that move.
What are cartoons?
This show is about a famous person in the Torah and his relationship with his brothers. Hint: He wears a pretty awesome coat.
What is Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat?
This kind of show has dialogue, music and choreography.
What is a musical?
What is "Cats?"
We buy candy and popcorn from this stand.
What is the concession stand?
A term for a TV show that makes us laugh.
What is a comedy or "Sit-Com?
This show takes place in Russia and is about Tevye and his daughters. Tevye cares about traditions.
What is Fiddler on the Roof?
A term used to tell an actor to speak loudly so that the audience can hear from the back of the theater.
What is "project?"
This type of entertainment was famous in the early 1900's. Performances would include comedy with music, dance, juggling and other light entertainment.
What is Vaudeville?
Before movies had sound, they were called this.
What are silent movies?
"General Hospital" and "The Young and the Restless" are examples of shows that are on every day in the afternoon. They follow the lives of many characters and are often very dramatic and have absurd story lines.
What is a Soap Opera?
The name of the famous young girl who kept a diary during the years that she hid in an attic with her family, in order to avoid being captured by the Nazis.
Who is Anne Frank?
A long paragraph spoken by one actor.
What is a monologue?
The country where theater began.
What is Greece?
Some movies are in a foreign language, and they have English words on the screen for the audience to read in order to understand the movies. These words are called this.
What are subtitles?
Most of the time, in TV shows these days, when something is funny, we hear laughter from the studio audience. A long time ago, shows were not filmed in front of an audience, so we would hear this.
What is a laugh track or canned laughter?
This child could not see, hear or communicate, but with the help of her teacher, Annie Sullivan, she learned sign language, and braille, and could eventually even speak.
Who is Helen Keller?
A term used to explain to actors what they are supposed to do. They often appear in a script in parentheses or in italics.
What are stage directions?