Parts of Stage
The area in which the audience sits.
What is the House
The music played before a show or event starts.
What is pre-show music?
In charge of managing the technicians and actors. Helps in running rehearsals.
What is a stage manager?
The tool needed to hook and unhook lighting instruments.
What is a crescent wrench?
The name for a light bulb in lighting fixtures.
What is a lamp?
The main curtain that closes between the stage and the audience.
What is the Grand Drape?
________ behind the cyc while a performance show is in progress.
What is walk
In charge of the scene changes and the movement/placement of props and set pieces during a show.
What is a stage hand?
The portable speakers that are used to direct sound on stage for the performers.
What are the monitors?
Magenta.
What does blue and red colored lights make?
The curtain that cuts the stage in half.
What is the mid traveler?
These should be set up before a show starts in the wings.
What are Props and Set pieces
In charge of executing the sound and light cues during a show.
What is the board operators.
Needed to connect the wireless microphones to the sound board.
What are receivers?
The lobby area.
What is the front of house?
The most downstage part of the stage that is in front of the Grand Drape.
What is the apron?
When an actor or technician enter or exit the house via the grand drape while audience members are in the house.
What is breaking the proscenium?
Gives acting guidance to the actors. Creates the main vision for a show.
What is a director?
Used to lower and raise the various curtains, batons, and electrics.
What is the Vortek?
The name of the play we did by William Shakespeare.
What is "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
The short curtains that help conceal the batons and electrics.
What is a teaser?
They must be quick and organized.
What is a good scene change like?
The individuals who help in creating the aesthetic of a play. They go off of what the director envisions and what the script requires.
What are designers?
The gel type used specifically for the cyclorama lights.
The direction of the stage that is towards the cyclorama?
What is upstage?