Potpourri
The play you can never name in a theatre
What is Macbeth
This person is the backstage leader.
What/who is the Stage Manager?
a movement where a playwright (or theatre company) interviews people from a real-life event and uses their words in the script. Typically actors play multiple roles, genders, and races. The Laramie Project is one of the most well known pieces of this genre
What is Verbatim Theatre?
This show which features music from Alanis Morissette’s catalog, leads the 2021 Tony nominations for musicals.
What is Jagged Little Pill?
The name of our theatre company
What is Golden Arts?
In a theatre company this person keeps an eye on the accuracy of the overall storytelling of the production, coordinates and shares performance research and communicates with audiences outside the performance
Who/What is a dramaturg?
Another name for the lighting department
What is Electrics
a stage musical or musical film in which a majority of the songs are well-known popular music songs, rather than original music.
What is a jukebox musical?
This Kander and Ebb musical recounts the story of "the merry murderesses" of this title town
What is Chicago?
The most recent winner of the Gypsy Robe
Who is Ben Macmillan
Many of the theatre games we play in class where created by this Chicago-based "mother of improv"
Who is Viola Spolin?
the front “pretty” curtain
What is the main drape/main rag/grande drape
Small theater that is infinitely flexible and changeable
What is a Black Box?
This early Kander and Ebb musical is one of VBs all-time favorites
What is The Happy Time?
The title of the student leader of our company
What is Keeper of Traditions?
Modern day Improv is descended from this bawdy form of Italian masked theatre
What is Commedia dell'arte?
The technical department responsible for explosions and/or fire effects
What is pyrotechnics?
a theatrical production that is designed to be performed in a specific space, but not a traditional theatre.
What is site specific theatre?
This musical based on Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera Madame Butterfly, tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. It is important in theatre history as one of the first battles for equitable representation on Broadway
What is Miss Saigon?
His name appears on a plaque outside our theatre. He is credited with creating the tradition of award-winning theatre at NVOT.
Who is Curt Ebersole?
In this form of British slapstick theatre you might encounter a dame, a comic, or a baddie; you would be expected to cheer, hiss, and boo loudly
What is Panto?
an object placed inside or in front of a light source to control the shape of the emitted light and its shadow.
What is a gobo?
a traditional form of Japanese puppet theatre. It takes multiple people to operate the puppets in realistic ways and incorporates musicians and chanters as well. The tradition has been around for hundreds of years.
What is Bunraku?
This musical which was written, composed, choreographed and directed by Elizabeth Swados, tells about the lives of children who run away from home and live on the city streets. The characters were taken from workshops conducted by Swados in the late 1970s.
What is Runaways?
The tony award-winning actress whose personal note to the cast of Beauty and the Beast sits in our front display case
Who is Angela Landsbury