1.___ _________ The visual elements of the play.
2.____ ___________ Invisible wall between the audience and the actor.
3______ __________ Actor's left/House Right
4_______ _________ Offstage areas to the right and the left of the stage.
5_____ ____________ The part of the stage that is closest to the back wall of  the theatre.
6_____ ________ Where the audience can see you.
7______ __________ Facing downstage, front towards the audience. To turn toward the audience while appearing to focus on another player(actor) onstage in order for them to be seen better by the audience.
8________________ Where the audience sits in the auditorium.
9_____ __________ Behind the main curtain, waiting to go on the stage
10 _____ ___________ The part of the stage downstage of the curtain.
11_____ ___________ Where an actor stands to be noticed.
12______ __________  The part of the stage that is closest to the audience.

13 _____ ___________ To walk across the stage.
14______ __________ Planned, organized movement.
16 _____ ___________ Where the audience cannot see you.
17______ ___________ The arch or picture frame around the stage.
18____ _____________ A raised platform (or lowest area in cases with stadium audience), where actors perform.
19 _____ ___________ angled stage.
20______ __________ Actor's right/House left
21____ ____________ A balanced move on stage. To move when another actor crosses to maintain stage picture balance.
22_____ ___________ Any articles handled or carried by the actor.
23 _____ ____________ Actor's lounge area backstage.

24 _____________ Bulletin board backstage, where notes for a show/production are posted.

25_______________ Curtains at the extreme right or left of the stage used to mask/hide offstage areas.

26________________ Form of staging with the audience on three sides of the stage.

27_________________ dropping character, often by laughing or forgetting your next line or stage direction.

28_________________ Turn executed so that the actor turns his back to the audience. Typically incorrect. Open Turn is standard.

29_________________ Form of staging where the audience is on all sides.

30_________________ variation in actors positions on stage- standing straight, kneeling, lying down, slouching, etc. This creates a more interesting “stage picture”.

31_________________ when actors compete for a role in a play by performing a previously rehearsed monologue or song of their choice.

32________________ when actors compete for a role in a play by performing cold readings from “sides”- scene excerpts from the same play in which they are competing.

33________________ when an actor performs a monologue, scene, or song with having little to no time to rehearse it- Usually they are still “on book”.

34________________ when the actor still has the script in their hand during rehearsal because they have not memorized their part or when the stage manager reads the play as it is being performed in anticipation of actors forgetting their lines, so they can prompt them/feed them their line.

35._______________ the point in the rehearsal process in which no scripts are allowed in actors’ hands.

36________________ Performance(s) before opening night. The director and designers still make changes/improvements to the production. Tickets are sold at a discounted price because there still may be problems with the performance.

37_______________ The first time a play is ever “put on its feet” or performed and the script is still being re-written/edited.

38.______________ To speak loud enough so the audience in the backrow can still hear you clearly. Different than yelling.

39.______________ When the actors and crew are ready in their “top of show” positions before the curtain rises/opens to begin the performance.

40._____________  The union for professional actors and stage managers.

41.______________ A play without musical numbers

42.______________ a shorter play without an intermission.

43._____________ to take a prop, costume, or set piece off stage

44._____________ stage floor.

45.Balanced (not too heavy stage left or stage right) unless for dramatic effect, engaging positions of actors onstage and Levels.

46._____________ an electric light that is left on the stage when the theater is dark. Traditionally to prevent people from falling into the orchestra pit.

47. Actor who substitutes for an absent actor.

Understudy/ swing

Actors equity association

Apron

Arena

Auditions

Backdrop

Backstage

Blocking

Breaking

Callbacks

Callboard

Center stage

Closed turn

Cold reading

Counter

Cross

Deck

Downstage

Fourth wall

Ghost Light

Green room

House

Legs

Levels

Off book

Offstage

On book

One act

Onstage

Open/Cheat Out

Places

Preview

Project

Prop

Proscenium

Rake

Set/set pieces

Stage

Stage Picture

Stage left

Stage right

Straight play

Strike

Thrust

Upstage

Wings

Workshop

 

Student Directed One Act Plays Calendar/Scripts- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K9Yteq-rJMfFXlMaryYuOWW_RvvsdC2xH5nTmA82lwg/edit?usp=sharing

Calendar/Scripts- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K9Yteq-rJMfFXlMaryYuOWW_RvvsdC2xH5nTmA82lwg/edit?usp=sharing

We need 3-5 Student Directors.

Everyone else in the class will be actors in their casts.

Each play needs to be a minimum of 10 minutes and a maximum of 20 minutes.

Your play needs to be approved by me before you begin rehearsing.

-dates for final performances: May 29,31.

You can either:

-write your own play

-perform an already published one act play

-adapt a movie or tv show into a stage play

-Links to tv scripts:

or

or

Here is a list of sitcom tv shows that would adapt well into a stage play:
3rd Rock From the Sun
Black Adder
Cheers
Everybody Loves Raymond
Frasier
Friends
Married with Children
Rosanne
Seinfeld
Taxi
That 70's Show
The Cosby Show
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
The Golden Girls
The King of Queens
The Nanny
abbott and costello show
absolutely fabulous
addams family
alf
bewitched
big bang theory
black books
blackish
boy meets world
brady bunch
brooklyn 99
clarissa explains it all
drew carey show
facts of life
fresh off the boat
full house
hannah montana
happy days
home improvement
honeymooners
how i met your mother
i dream of jeanie
i love lucy
it crowd
martin
mash
mork and mindie
munsters
sabrina the teenage witch
saved by the bell
sister sister
thats so raven
the nanny
two and a half men
will and grace
wizards of waverly place

IF YOU CAN'T CONNECT TO THE INTERNET, ADD 354WIRELESS TO YOUR NETWORKS.

 

Bang Bang Script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/144dLuum8_XOa2G_CMHR-0FSuX9FDgv-Y7ilz0DYz9Us/edit?usp=sharing

-Blouse or button down collared shirt OK

-NO blue jeans

-NO sneakers

-Dress shoes or dress sandals OK

-Skirt or Dress OK

-NO hoodies

-NO writing on your clothing

-Strong handshake

-If you don't have nice clothing to wear, you need to come see me at lunch or advisory before Monday.

 

Your monologue must be from a published play.

It must be between 45min-1min long.

 

Final Filmed Performance Videos-

Monday 2/5- On Book Workshop

Tuesday 2/6- Re-rehearsal

Wednesday 2/7- Off Book Preview

Thursday 2/8- Re-rehearsal

Friday 2/9- Final Filmed Performance

 

Greased Lightning-

Summer Nights-

Hard Knock Life-

Seize the Day-

Little Shop of Horrors-

America-

Rock Island-

Ease on Down the Road-

Matchmaker-

Cell Block Tango-

Positive-

Oh My God you guys

Schuyler Sisters

Masquerade

The Nicest Kids in Town

Run And Tell That

You Can't Stop The Beat

The New Girl in Town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7mfw_IRFl0&t=2s

We ended at 01:34:56

Show Business: The Road to Broadway

1. What is Boy George’s musical called?
2. Who produced it?
3. What is Avenue Q about?
4. True or False? The Avenue Q writers originally wanted it to be a T.V. show.
5. What is Wicked based on?
6. What color does Idina Menzel painted every night for the show?
7. What is an Out-Of-Town Try Out?
8. What city was Wicked’s Out-Of-Town Try Out?
9. True or False? Caroline, or Change is a memory play.
10. True or False? Workshop performances with audiences have full set and costume.
11. What is spring usually like on Broadway?
12. When did the four shows featured in the documentary start production?
13. The critics discussed the problems with marketing Avenue Q. Explain their argument.
14. What is the Gypsy Robe?
15. What are the roughest two months on Broadway? Why?
16. Which show closed first?
17. How much money was Wicked making every week in January?
18. Who was the typical Wicked fan?
19. What was Boy George’s first instinct when meeting the critic who wrote poorly of his show?
20. True or false? Once a show previews, nothing can be changed about the production.
21. How many shows a week do Broadway actors perform?
22. Which show features children?
23. Who were the writers and composers of Avenue Q excited to meet?
24. What is a swing?
25. Which show won the Tony award for Best Musical?

-SET/SET PIECES-The visual elements of the play on stage.
-FOURTH WALL- Invisible wall between the audience and the actor.
-STAGE LEFT- Actor's left/House right.

-stage right- Actor's right./House left

-DOWNSTAGE- The part of the stage that is closest to the audience.

- CENTER STAGE- Where an actor stands to be noticed.

- UPSTAGE-The part of the stage that is closest to the back wall of  the theatre.
- ONSTAGE- Where the audience can see you.

-OFFSTAGE- Where the audience cannot see you.
- WINGS-Offstage areas to the right and the left of the stage.

-Legs- Curtains at the extreme right or left of the stage used to mask/hide wings/offstage areas.
- OPEN/CHEAT OUT- Facing downstage, front towards the audience. To turn toward the audience while appearing to focus on another player(actor) onstage in order for them to be seen better by the audience.

-Counter- To move when another actor crosses to maintain stage picture balance.

-Stage Picture- balanced (not too heavy stage left or stage right) unless for dramatic effect, engaging positions of actors on stage. Levels.

-Levels- All the actors have a variety of positions to avoid standing in a line. Some sitting, standing, on a raised platform, laying down, etc. Variation in actors’ positions on stage- standing straight, kneeling, lying down, slouching, etc. This creates a more interesting stage picture.

-.Closed turn- Turn executed so that the actor turns his back to the audience. Typically incorrect. Open Turn is standard.
-HOUSE- Where the audience sits in the auditorium.
- BACKSTAGE- Behind the curtain, waiting to go on the stage
- APRON-The part of the stage downstage of the curtain.
- CROSS- To walk across the stage.
-BLOCKING- Planned, organized movement.
- BACKDROP- A piece of scenery that drops/flies down from the ceiling/fly space.
-PROCSENIUM- The arch or picture frame around the stage.
-STAGE- A raised platform (or lowest area in cases with stadium audience), where actors perform.
-rake- angled stage.
- prop- Any articles handles or carried by the actor.
- green room- Actor's lounge area backstage.

-Callboard- Bulletin board backstage, where notes for a show/production are posted.

-auditions- when actors compete for a role in a play by performing a previously rehearsed monologue or song of their choice.

-callbacks- when actors compete for a role in a play by performing cold readings from “sides”-scene excerpts from the same play in which they are auditioning.

-cold reading- when an actor performs a monologue, scene, or song with having little to no time to rehearse it- Usually they are still “on book”.

-on book- when the actor still has the script in their hand during rehearsal because they have not memorized their part or when the stage manager reads the play as it is being performed in anticipation for an actor forgetting their lines.

-off book- no scripts allowed in actors hands at the point in the rehearsal process.

-.Breaking- dropping character, often by laughing or forgetting your next line or stage direction.

-Thrust- Form of staging with the audience on three sides of the stage.

-Arena- Form of staging where the audience is on all sides.

-Preview- Performance(s) before opening night, the director and designers still make changes/improvements to the production during previews. Preview tickets are sold at a discounted price because there still may be problems with the performance.

-Workshop-The first time a play is ever “put on it’s feet” or performed and a the script is still being re-written.

-Project- the speak loud enough so the audience in the backrow can still hear you clearly. Different than yelling.

-Places- When the actors and crew are ready in their “top of show” positions before the curtain rises to begin the performance.

-Actors’ Equity Association- The union for professional actors and stage managers.

-straight play- a play without musical numbers

-one act- a shorter play without an intermission

-Strike- to take a prop, costume, or set piece off stage.

-Deck- stage floor

-Ghost Light- an electric light that is left on the stage when the theater is dark. Traditionally to prevent people from falling into the orchestra pit.