Acting Terms
The thing that you are trying to achieve when you are acting in a scene, your goal
Objective
A musical about two witches. One of them is Green.
Wicked
Rumors, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Star Spangled Girl, Biloxi Blues, Promises Promises, and like a hundred others.
Neil Simon
Hamilton, In the Heights, and parts of Moana
Lin-Manuel Miranda
What is Mr. Shakespeare's first name?
William
If you are facing the audience, and you take a few steps to the left, in what stage direction have you moved?
Stage left
Little Shop of Horrors
Much Ado About Nothing, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Othello
William Shakespeare
Sweeny Todd, Company, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George, A Little Night Music
Stephen Sondheim
The combination of two opposite or opposing images or ideas in verse
Antithesis
A shift in the emotional temperature of the scene
Beat change
A musical about Jean Valjean, Javert, Fantine, Eponine, Marius, Enjorlas, Thenardie, and a bunch of very loudly belting French people
Les Miserables
Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Seven Guitars, Joe Turner's Come and Gone
August Wilson
Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Cats
Andrew Lloyd Webber
When a verse line ends with no punctuation, and carries into the next line with no break, it is called
Enjambment
Elliptical Scenes
The musical adaptation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Spamalot
A Streetcar Named Desire, Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Camino Real, Night of the Iguana
Tennessee Williams
Wicked, Pippin, Children of Eden
Stephen Schwartz
Dramatic language that appeals to the senses
Imagery
What phrase/ item reference does Mr. Steele often use to demonstrate the concept of the objective?
Pick up the keys
The title of the Spiderman Musical (it was bad, and it was also the most expensive Broadway production to date)
Spiderman: Turn of the Dark
True West, Buried Child, Case of the Starving Class
Sam Shephard
Hadestown
Anaïs Mitchell
When a line is in 5 feet of two syllables, with the stress on the second syllable, it is called...
Iambic Pentameter