What is a lighting plot?

A plan on paper where the lights will be hung

Who is the protagonist in a story?

The character whose objective the story evolves around

What is a run-through?

Performing the show from beginning to end

The hidden meaning behind what you say

Reading the script for the very first time

Pieces of set raised off the stage

Actors frozen to create a picture

The person who researches history for a play

What does it mean to rehearse?

To do your performance over and over until it's the best

What is a thrust stage?

When the stage extends into the audience

What does it mean to hit your mark?

Walk to where you were supposed to walk

What is stage chemistry?

Having a special connection with another actor

A signal for something to happen

What is an orchestra pit?

The place where the orchestra plays

An over-dramatic play with a villain, a hero, and heroin

What does it mean to spike a set?

Mark the floor with tape to know where to put the set

When a character speaks to himself for a long time

What is Given circumstances?

Information that the playwright gives you

What is the "fourth wall?"

The pretend wall between the actors and the audience

Where the actors will stand and what they will do

A piece of scenery used as a wall

What does it mean to upstage someone or something on stage?

Take the attention away from where it's supposed to be

Telling what you think of something ( a play or musical)

What does it mean to call for "line?"

To ask the stage manager to tell you your line

What is exposition in a story?

The necessary information to understand the story

What is the mid curtain (or "mid")?

The middle curtain of the stage

The curtains on stage left and right, blocking the offstage

The left side of the house from the audience's point of view

What are stage directions?

Stage right, left, upstage, downstage, etc.

What does it mean to slate?

To give information about yourself before a performance

What does Aside mean?

When the actor speaks to the audience without anyone knowing

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1
What is a lighting plot?
A plan on paper where the lights will be hung
A dark stage
A piece of ground where lights live
A plan to kill lights
2
Who is the protagonist in a story?
Never the good guy
The character whose objective the story evolves around
The character who gets in the way of the good guy
Always the good guy
3
What is a run-through?
Post-nasal drip
Performing the show from beginning to end
Turning on the technical instruments
Running into the set and breaking it
4
What is subtext?
A substitute actor
When you write on your script
A play about submarines
The hidden meaning behind what you say
5
What is Articulation?
To form sounds with your mouth
Sounds made with a gutair
Sounds made with your hands
Sounds mad with props
6
What is the larynx?
A heckler in the audience
The box office
Your voice box
A character from Dr. Seuss
7
What is a dialect?
The day before Halloween
The different way people speak
Lyrics on sheet music
Lines of dialogue
8
What is a cold read?
I brand new script
Reading a script that feels cold to the touch
Reading the script for the very first time
An old script
9
What is a tenor?
A boy
The highest male singer
A very tiny boy
A small boy
10
What are platforms?
Tall shoes
Pieces of set raised off the stage
A type of duck used on stage
A political play
11
What is a matinee?
A fish
A very large fish
A large fish
An afternoon show
12
What is tableau?
Actors frozen to create a picture
A french fry
A french actor
A french woman
13
What is a call back?
A second audition
The back of a set
The first audition
When you invite someone to come back after the walk away
14
What is a Dramaturg?
The person who researches history for a play
A sold-out show
A dramatic turg
A cloth used on a set
15
What does it mean to strike the set?
To miss all 3 pitches during a play about baseball
To take down the set
The put holes in the set
To hit the set
16
What does it mean to rehearse?
To do your performance over and over until it's the best
Looking up lyrics or scripts on your phone
To sit and plan out your performance
To memorize the script
17
What is a thrust stage?
When the stage extends into the audience
A pizza-shaped stage
An inappropriate action on stage
Elvis Presley's first stage appearance
18
What is the pharynx?
A character from Dr. Seuss
A place in Egypt
A bad guy
The throat
19
What does it mean to hit your mark?
Run into a set flat
Punch your friend Mark
Walk to where you were supposed to walk
Draw on the back of the set
20
What is stage chemistry?
Being in love
Making potions on stage
Having a special connection with another actor
Chemistry props
21
What is a cue?
A signal for something to happen
Playing pool on stage
The stick you hit the cue ball with
Playing billiards on stage
22
What is an orchestra pit?
The place where the orchestra pits
A music venue
The pit of despair
The place where the orchestra plays
23
What is an understudy?
A backup for another actor
A person who lays under someone else when they study
A podium
It's like a bench
24
What does when an actor "crosses?"
When an actor moves on stage
To draw a cross backstage
When an actor makes a religious sign on stage for good luck
It's when the actor is mad
25
What is a melodrama?
An over-dramatic play with a villain, a hero, and heroin
A drama always directed by a student
Using watermelons in a play
A drama that is mellow
26
What are levels?
Different heights on stage
Stages of a game
Actors that are closer or further from the audience
1st, 2nd, 3rd floor
27
What does it mean to spike a set?
Put alcohol on stage
The stage dog
Throw a football down onstage
Mark the floor with tape to know where to put the set
28
What is a bass?
A fish
The male that sings the lowest
The female that sings the lowest
Male that sings the highest?
29
What does it mean to enunciate?
Speak clearly
Speak loudly
Eat food
Walk faster
30
What is a soliloquy?
A skeleton key
The only person left at the end of the play
When a character talks to another character for along time
When a character speaks to himself for a long time
31
What is Given circumstances?
Information the lead actress gives you
Information Mr .Mascio gives you
Information that the playwright gives you
Information the lighting crew gives you
32
What is the "fourth wall?"
The walls on the set
The Great Wall of China
The pretend wall between the actors and the audience
Mr. Mascio's classroom wall
33
What is Farce?
To make the audience cry
To be funny just to be funny
To be Fierce
To be scary to thrill the audience
34
What is stage presence?
Christmas gifts on stage
Being read to act
Being on stage
Looking good on stage
35
What is Denouement?
When the villain dies
When the lead actress gets shot
How the story gets solved
When a male in the play dies
36
What is Blocking?
When the actors will act
Where the actors will use props
When the actors will say their lines
Where the actors will stand and what they will do
37
What are Flats?
A piece of scenery used as a wall
A type of shoe used on stage
A hat prop
A mat used when actors do tricks
38
What does it mean to upstage someone or something on stage?
Push them upstage
Take the attention away from where it's supposed to be
Block another actor with your body
Dance upstage
39
What is a Critique?
Hating a Musical
Loving an actor
Telling what you think of something ( a play or musical)
Loving a something
40
What does it mean to call for "line?"
To call the playwright on the phone
To say your lines
To ask the stage manager to tell you your line
To sing while tightrope walking
41
What are lyrics?
The karaoke version of a song
Words you sing
Singing with someone else
The music you play on your phone
42
What is exposition in a story?
The necessary information to understand the story
The resolution of the story
The high point of a story
The end of the story
43
What is the mid curtain (or "mid")?
The curtain in the middle of the audience
The middle curtain of the stage
The curtain separating the backstage from the set
The curtains on the sides of the stage
44
What are the "legs"?
The wooden posts that hold up the set
"Get-away sticks"
The curtains on stage left and right, blocking the offstage
What actors use to walk
45
Where is house left?
Out to dinner
The left side of the house from the audience's point of view
Outside
The left side of the house from the actors point of view
46
What are stage directions?
Stage right, left, upstage, downstage, etc.
When a stage can give you directions
The way the stage is facing
How to get to the stage
47
Who is the cast?
The director and playwright
The fixture on a broken leg
The tech crew
The members of a play
48
What does it mean to slate?
To cut bread
To tell the stage manager you're ready to act
To tell the actors to start acting
To give information about yourself before a performance
49
What does Aside mean?
When the actor drops a prop
When the actor is next to someone
When the actor speaks to the audience without anyone knowing
When the actor messes up
50
What is a wagon (as far as the set goes)?
A platform on wheels
A wheelbarrow
Wells Fargo
A horse-drawn contraption
51
What does it mean to read for a part?
To audition
To read while you comb your hair
Ready by yourself
You are reading a part of the script that has fallen off
52
What does it mean to be off-book?
You're the writer of the play
You can't read
You are no longer standing on a book
You are completely memorized
53
What is the proscenium?
The opening of the stage for the audience to look through
A type of museum
A professional scene painter
When the stage extends into the audience
54
What is a cyclorama?
A large white screen at the back of the stage
The black screen at the back of the stage
The yellow screen at the back of the stage
The green screen at the back of the stage
55
Who is the antagonist in a story?
The person or thing in the way of the protagonist
The bad guy
The obstacles on a running track
The good guy
56
What is the tech crew?
The people who run the technical aspects of the show
Friends of the lighting board operator
A gang
The group of people who get a discount to see the play
57
What is the green room?
The room where the actors hang out during a play
The tech booth
A room that is always green
The place where the director directs
58
What is a teaser?
The person who cracks joke in the audience
Someone who says, "oh, you kid!"
Backstage food
The fabric that hides the fly loft above the stage
59
What is a playwright?
The rights to do a play
An author or a book
The person who wrote the play
The director's right-hand man
60
What is the run of a show?
The person in charge of the show
The actors warming up
How many minutes the play lasts
From the first night to the last night
61
What are planes?
Vehicles that fly
A Disney movie
Strips of areas on stage from front to back
When you fly an actor
62
What are wings?
The sides of the stage where the audience can't see
The arms of a chicken
Buffalo, chicken, spicy, etc...
What Red Bull gives you
63
What is vibrato?
A vibration in your throat when you sing
A special tool for set building
A large opera singer
An Italian actor
64
What is an alto?
The male that sings the highest
The male that sings the lowest
The female that sings the lowest
The female that sings the highest
65
What is a pantomime?
When an actor uses invisible objects
Mr. Mascio's friend from school
What you're stuck in a box
A mime wearing pants
66
What are monologues?
When a character is talking to someone else for a long time
When a character is talking alone on stage
A long script
A short script
67
What is a Fly loft?
Large open area used to move sets
The large open area above the stage, used to move lights
The large area above the stage, used to move scenery
Large open area used to move props
68
What are stakes?
Yummy meat
Something you use to kill a vampire
What a character has to lose during a play
A poker game
69
What is a Box set?
A set with a wall on 3 sides
A set with a wall on 4 sides
A set with a wall on 2 sides
A set with a wall on 5 sides
70
What is resonating?
When sound bounces around your throat, nose, and mouth
Facing the audience
Speaking clearly
Quitting your job
71
What are obstacles?
Hurdles on a running track
Anything in a character's way of getting what he/she wants
What a character does to get what he/she wants
What the character has to gain or lose
72
What is tempo?
A short-term job
The beat of a song
How fast or slow the song is
How hot or cold the actors are
73
What are tactics?
Little metal things you stick in a wall
Little bugs that bite
Covert operations
What a character does to get what they want
74
What is the diaphragm?
A drawing of the set
The muscle on your chest you use for singing
A contraceptive
The muscle right under the lungs used when talking/singing
75
What is sheet music?
The paper with the music notes and lyrics
The paper on the cover of a musical script
A thin piece of music
What covers music when it's asleep
76
Where is the front of house?
Where the audience enters, with bathrooms and box office
Outside of the theater
In the back
Near the stage
77
What is the oral cavity?
The open space in the front of your mouth
A whole in your tooth
A type of toothpaste
Your nose
78
What is a dress rehearsal?
The rehearsal where all props, costumes are tech is tested
The rehearsal where actors are finally memorized
The rehearsal where you are dressed
The rehearsal during the run of a show
79
What is pitch?
Talk faster or slower
Throwing a softball or baseball
A bad word
The highs and lows of the voice
80
What is the nasal cavity?
An oral surgeon
A play about dentistry
A hole in your head
The open area in your nose to make sound
81
What is Emotional recall?
When the actor shows happy emotions
Remembering an emotional event from your past
When the actor cries or screams
When the actress dies
82
What is the pharyngeal cavity?
Your mouth
A whole in your neck
The open area in your throat
Your nose
83
What does it mean to break the 4th wall?
To break a set wall
To dance on a wall
Take down the set at the end of a play
To talk to or make reference to the audience
84
What are props?
What the actors hold on stage
When someone does a good job
Something that keeps up the set
A proposition
85
What is a soprano?
The highest male singer
The lowest female singer
The lowest male singer
The highest female singer
86
What is a stage hand?
When your hand turns red from too much acting
People who help on stage
When you hit your hand with a hammer while building sets
An actor's hand
87
What's a character's objective?
To eat pizza
What they want more than anything else during the play
What the character has to gain or lose
What's in the way of the character

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