Stage Layout
This is where the actor is closest to the Audience.
What is Downstage?
Using makeup to make the ideal look of your face without changing your overall appearance.
What is natural makeup?
When two actors are speaking to each other.
What is dialogue?
Two star crossed lovers are divided by two families in this Shakespeare tragedy.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
Inspired by a 1939 classic, this musical returns to the yellow brick road and is now its own blockbuster movie, the first half at least.
What is Wicked?
This is where the actor is furthest away from the audience.
What is upstage?
A common garment worn by Roman senators.
What is a toga?
When one actor says a lengthy line of dialogue to an audience with no interruption from other characters.
What is a monologue?
Through twist and turns this king of Thebes ends the show by plucking his eyes and running into the woods.
What is Oedipus Rex?
This holds the record for the longest running musical in Broadway though it left the stage in 2023.
What is the Phantom of the Opera?
Audience left, actor's right.
What is stage right?
Material used to create scars and other wounds.
What is nose puddy?
How actors move around the stage without covering other actors on the stage.
What is blocking?
A recently deceased mathematician's daughter now has to convince one of his students that she has this.
What is Proof?
Set in Greece while including music from a Swedish band.
What is Mamma Mia?
Actor's left, audience right.
What is stage left?
An actor was wearing red, now they wear blue.
What is a costume change?
A complex sequence of movement that requires precision and practice
What is choreography?
A two man show where they play multiple characters in a small Texas town.
What is Greater Tuna?
Set on a Roman street with three houses, this musical comedy has nothing of kings, nothing of crowns, bring out the lover, liars, and clowns!
What is A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum?
This structure acts as a sort of gateway between the world of the show and the world of the audience.
What is a proscenium arch?
To make an actor look older than they actually are.
What is old age makeup?
One's goal and how they will achieve those goals.
What is motivation?
A community theatre group try to put on a murder mystery only to face certain setbacks.
What is The Play that Goes Wrong?
Put on your Sunday clothes for this musical, revived in 2016 starring Bette Midler.
What is Hello Dolly?