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?
A cursed play written by William Shakespear in 1606
What is Macbeth?
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?
A large white piece of fabric that hangs in the very back of the theater
what is a Cyc
A Musical Based on an 80's high school with a really toxic hierarchy of 3 girls
What is Heathers?
Famous street in New York
What is Broadway?
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 do you say when someone announces that a line is flying in or out?
What is "Thank you in/out"
Musical based off of one of Americas founding fathers.
What is Hamilton?
Where did theater originate?
What is Ancient Greece?
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?