Theater History
This early color film process, made famous by movies like The Wizard of Oz, became known for it's vibrant, saturated hues.
What is Technicolor?
This literary term refers to a performer who speaks directly to the audience, often guiding the story-frequently used in musicals, plays and movies.
What is a narrator?
This award winning hit musical is about The Revolutionary War and was recently adapted into a Disney+ musical movie.
What is Hamilton?
This is what you say to actors instead of "Good luck".
What is Break a Leg?
What is the highest rating you can recieve at a MSHSAA One Act Competition?
What is "Superior"?
This is what the Smile and Frown theater masks mean.
What is Tragedy and Comedy?
Speaking at a louder than normal volume so that you can be heard in the back of the Theater.
What is Projection?
This musical tells the story of nuns who perfect their singing choir to save their convent.
What is Sister Act?
Doing this at the ends of rehearsing is considered very bad luck.
What is Taking a Bow?
What is "Angel"
This group of performers was often used in Greek theater to narrate and comment upon the action.
What is a Chorus?
Both offstage sides of a stage are referred to as this. I thought only birds and airplanes had them.
What is Wings?
This musical is the highest grossing musical of all time and is based on the 1994 Walt Disney Animation Studios' animated feature film about lions.
What is Lion King the Musical?
This is what you should never give an actor before their show.
What is Flowers?
The following characters all have a specific role in broadway musicals.
Rose, Donna Sheridan, Maria VonTrap, Edna Turnblood, Heidi Hansen, Eliza Schyler, The Bakers Wife, Heidi Hansen, Mae Peterson, Golde, Fantine, Sylvia
What is mother or mom?
Actors are referred to as Thespians in honor of this man, who became the first actor.
Who is Thespis?
This refers to the area that is closest onstage area to the audience.
What is downstage?
This musical, which debuted in 1986, is the longest running show in Broadway history, running consecutively for 24 years.
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
Putting this on stage is considered bad luck.
What are Mirrors?
Who composed many famous musicals including Cats and Phantom?
Who is Andrew Lloyd Webber?
This 1960's film set in a strict Catholic girls' school and based on a stage play features famous actresses of the times such as Hayley Mills, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Rosalind Russel.
What is The Trouble with Angels?
A actor drawing attention to themself away from the main action (by moving around, or over-reacting to onstage events).
What is Upstaging?
This sung-through musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber features a narrator and tells a familiar story through a wide variety of musical styles, from calypso to rock.
What is Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat?
You should never say this in the Theater unless it is part of the play.
What is Macbeth?
Who is "Mother Superior" or "Reverend Mother"