Scripts & Blocking
Blocking script
What is the document where the stage manager records actor movements?
The Stage Manager
Who is responsible for maintaining the director’s vision once the show opens?
Tech Rehearsal
What is the rehearsal where technical elements are added for the first time.
Breaks
What happens after 55 minutes or 80 minutes of work?
SQ or S
What is used for notating a sound cue in a calling script?
X
What’s the most common symbol used to mark an actor’s cross on stage when taking blocking notation?
ASM
This person assists the stage manager and may run backstage during performances.
Paper Tech
When the SM sits down with the designers (and often the director) to go over cue placement and talk through technical elements before tech rehearsal.
Wings
What are the side areas offstage where actors wait?
Headset
What is worn to communicate with people running a show
Calling Script
Includes light and sound cues as well as any scene changes that happen during a show.
Sound Designer
Who creates the auditory world of a show?
Table Read
What often happens at the first rehearsal?
Spike
What is marking a position of a set piece, furniture or prop with tape?
Standby
What is the word that comes before GO?
Prompt book or Production "Bible"
What is the stage manager's master script with all cues, blocking, notes...anything and everything that has to do with the production.
Props Master
Who is responsible for buying, borrowing, making, and overseeing props for a play?
Final dress rehearsal
What is the last rehearsal before opening night?
"Hold"
What word is used to stop the show immediately?
Light cue
What is a cue that is called to turn on, off or change the look of the lights?
Slip page
What is a sheet of paper inserted into the blocking script for writing down blocking?
Technical Director
Who is responsible for making sure the set is safe and built correctly?
Blocking
What is the movement of the actors and their position onstage?
Walk the set
What the stage manager should do before the actors are on the set for the first time?
Warning
What a stage manager would say to give someone more advance notice for an upcoming cue