Grant Theater Lore
The location of the first aid kit in the Grant Auditorium.
Where is mounted to the upstage wall on the stage right side OR What is in the shop on the stage right side?
The software program used to run sound during shows at Grant.
What is QLab?
The three quarters stance you take to face the audience and also your scene partners.
What is cheating out?
The number of minutes in a year.
What is 525,600?
Broadway's London counterpart.
What is the West End?
The number of seats in the Grant Auditorium.
What is 875-900?
The cable that, along with power, is needed for hanging and patching an LED.
What is a DMX cable?
The rhythm in which an actor must recite Shakespeare.
What is iambic pentameter?
Where the musical Hairspray is set.
What is Baltimore, Maryland?
The name of the light that is left on in an empty theatre auditorium, even when the building is completely empty.
What is the ghost light?
Two of the iconic Grant pre-show warm ups.
What are Chicky Chicky, Vista, Mother Pheasant, Soup, Ride My Pony, Dull Dark Dock, or My Name is Joe?
What it means to 'knife it' when moving a large flat object with many people.
What is turning it on its side?
Where actors go when not backstage during a show.
What is the green room?
The name of Annie's dog in the musical Annie.
What is Sandy?
A word you should never say over headset during a performance unless you're calling a cue.
What is 'go'?
One of the three musicals that John Eisemann was cast in while a student at Grant High School.
What is The Wizard of Oz, Les Misérables, or Into the Woods?
The structures that hold lights over the house. (The structures that hold lights above the stage at Grant are called battens, and labeled as 'electrics'.)
What are trusses OR What is truss 1/2?
The set of things that are known as facts in a script prior to beginning (used in script analysis).
What are the Given Circumstances?
A famous musical that opens with an auction under a Paris theater.
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical containing the song "Rainbow High".
What is Evita?
The name of the Grant student who's ashes were spread around the auditorium when it was under construction.
Who is Ben Buckley?
The thickness of a 2x4 in reality. (Theoretically, the name “2x4” refers to a piece of wood that is 2 inches thick and 4 inches wide. However, sanded 2x4’s that you buy today are not these dimensions.)
What is 1 1/2 inches thick?
The rehearsal in a show process where you go through all your music with the orchestra, usually near the end of the rehearsal process.
What is a sitzprobe?
A musical that was adapted into a movie musical in 2019 directed by Tom Hooper, but the stage show was originally based on a children’s book of poetry published in 1939.
What is Cats?
An expensive and well-known brand of dance and character shoes.
What are LaDucas?