Show:
ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE
THE COLOR LINE
ON BROADWAY
A CLASS ACT
AUGUST WILSON
100
When onstage to move your body position so the audience has a better view of you.
What is to "cheat out" ?
100
This producer showed white actors the door when they squawked about performing with a black actor.
Who is Florenz Zeigfeld?
100
This remake of "Romeo and Juliet" had phenomenal choreography by Jerome Robbins.
What is West Side Story?
100
This student is always happy to "cheer" you up.
Who is Nneka Sinclair?
100
The city and state where most of his plays take place. And the name of his body of work?
What is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania--the Pittsburgh Cycle?
200
This type of theatre has audience surrounding it on 3 sides.
What is a thrust stage?
200
Her nickname was "String Bean" and she performed the searing "Suppertime" in a 1930's review.
Who is Ethel Waters?
200
Her big voice was known as the "emblem of Broadway."
Who is Ethel Merman.
200
This student is an award winning playwright.
Who is Sam Vincent?
200
This play deals with a sibling dispute over what to do with a family heirloom.
What is THE PIANO LESSON?
300
What an actor is thinking when speaking their dialogue.
What is subtext?
300
This groundbreaking musical by Hammerstein and Kern had a famous miscegenation (inter-racial marriage) scene.
What is SHOWBOAT?
300
This show had to move uptown to perform after the theatre was chained.
What is "The Cradle Will Rock" ?
300
Although she's a "Chatty Cathy" she has a gorgeous singing voice.
Who is Laoura Parkhomouskaya?
300
This student will be heading to the August Wilson semi-finals in January.
Who is Bennett Castillo?
400
This acting term utilizes your memory of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures.
What is "sense memory"?
400
This performer is rumored to have paid $5000 for 5 martinis.
Who is Bert Williams?
400
This composers song "Alexanders Ragtime Band" was considered "rap" of the 1910's and was almost censored.
Who is Irivng Berlin?
400
The reason this student is always sleepy in class is because they have "hoop dreams".
Who is Pam Ephrim?
400
This play deals with a father's dashed dreams, obsession with cheating death and his troubled relationship with his son and wife.
What is FENCES?
500
They are Tina Fey's 5 Rules of Improv.
What are: 1. Agree. 2. Yes, and... 3. Make statements 4. Don't ask questions all the time 5. No mistakes, only happy accidents.
500
A folk opera that is emblematic of our melting pot.
What is "Porgy and Bess"?
500
George M. Cohan's first Broadway show.
What is "Little Johnny Jones?"
500
We had to say "auf weidersein" to this classroom heart throb.
Who is Zino Gersino?
500
Part of Wilson's theatrical style, this distinctive use of language has characters "engaging in a humorous insult match."
What is "signifying"?