Theater Terminology
an actors stands the furthest from the audience
What is upstage?
What is Wicked?
The Playwright of Romeo and Juliet
What is Shakespeare?
The process of removing all elements of the production from the stage
What is Strike?
Known for her roles in Wicked and Rent
What is Idina Menzel?
an actor is the closest to the audience
What is downstage?
What is Beetlejuice?
What is a Greek Chorus?
What is the term that a Stage Manager uses when preparing a board operator for the next cue?
What is Standby?
Known for his comedic relief of a Role in Hamilton
What is Jonathan Groff?
what is a Cyc or Cyclorama
A Musical Based on a 80's cult classic film
What is Heathers?
A form of variety theatre from the 1880's that involves representative acts that included skits, comics who specialized in trained animals, singers, dancers, and acrobats. The art form declined around the 1920's
What is Vaudeville Theater?
A mechanical crane used in ancient Greek drama to lower actors playing gods onto the stage
What is Deus ex machina?
Known for his role in Newsies
What is Jeremy Jordan?
Seating where the audience sits
House
The Longest Running Broadway Musical
What is Phantom of the Opera?
During 1607 this form of theater became popular in Europe, that includes singing
What is an Opera?
The British counterpart to the continental “chariot-and-pole” system for rapidly changing perspective scenery during the early eighteenth century, it operated by using flats that slid in grooves built on the stage floor and in supporting tracks behind the borders above.
What is a Wing and Groove system?
Known for her roles in Heather's as Veronica and Her Role in Mean Girls as Janice Ian
What is Barrett Wilbert Weed?
What is a Sitzprobe?
Ms. Ross' favorite Musical
What is Little Shop of Horrors?
popular form of traditional Japanese theatre noted for its lavish use of scenic display, costumes, and makeup; the physical and emotional style of its actors, traditionally made up of only male actors.
What is Kabuki Theater?
Stage machinery for quickly changing scenic “flats” riding on substage trolleys, invented by Giacomo Torelli in the 1640s.
What is Chariot-and-pole system?
What is Nathan Lane?