Stage Directions
Vocabulary
Musical Theatre
Roles
Miscellaneous
100

The person from whose view stage directions are used.

What is the actor?

100

The correct spelling of a building in which plays, motion pictures or shows are presented.

What is T-H-E-A-T-E-R?

100

The most popular street in NYC in which to see musical theatre.

What is Broadway?

100

Pay for and helps publicize a show.

Who is the producer?

100

TThis is acting with no rehearsal and no script

What is improvisational acting (or improv)?

200

The area of the stage closest to the house (or audience).

What is downstage?

200

The correct spelling of the art or profession of producing plays.

What is T-H-E-A-T-R-E?

200

A modern hip hop musical about one of America's founding fathers.

What is Hamilton?

200

Who writes the show

Who is the Playwright?

200

A genre of play that does not end in tragedy.

What is a comedy?

300

The area of the stage furthest from the house (or audience).

What is upstage?

300
Words written in a script that are not part of the dialogue that help the reader know what the playwright was envisioning; usually in italics.

What are stage directions?

300

This film about a pink-loving sorority girl that gets into Harvard and becomes a lawyer was adapted into a stage musical.

What is Legally Blonde?

300

Is responsible for the overall vision of the show, instructs performers, and collaborates with technical team.

Who is the Director?
300

Words in a script that actors say out loud that are assigned to characters.

What is dialogue?

400

When an actor is closes to the audience and crosses from the right of the stage (from their perspective) to the left of the stage (from their perspective).

What is crossing from Downstage Right to Downstage Left or X from DR to DL?

400

The people that develop the artistic vision or concepts for a show.

Who are the designers?

400

Looking Through a Window and You Will Be Found are from this musical about a lie that went viral.

What is Dear Evan Hansen?

400

Organizes and records blocking, calls the show, and usually is backstage making sure the show runs smoothly.

Who is the Stage Manager?

400

The most expensive musical ticket to date.

What is Hamilton?

500

When an actor is at the back of the stage in the very middle and walks all the way forward to the edge of the stage?

What is crossing from Upstage Center to Downstage Center or X UC to DC?

500

The person who researches the time period of the play and the characters in a script to design what each actor will wear in a play.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

What is a Costume Designer?

500

Before writing Hamilton, Lin Manuel Miranda wrote this musical about bodega owner Usnavi and his friends living in a New York City neighborhood  dreaming, hoping and working for a brighter future. 

What is In the Heights?

500

Operates the sound or light board or assist with area of theatre behind the scenes.

What is a technician?

500

The Lion King's plot is based on this play, written by William Shakespeare.

What is Hamlet?