Theatre - FINAL
True or False On a trip to Paris, Florenz Ziegfeld attended the Folies Bergere which featured lots of beautiful dancing women. Based upon this idea, Ziegfeld made the revue format a huge success with an American version of this idea called simply The Follies in the early 1910's.
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True or False Positioning is identifying and attempting to occupy a market niche for a brand, product or service utilizing traditional marketing placement strategies (i.e. price, promotion, distribution, packaging, and competition).
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True or False Presentational Theatre is when the reality of the performer is the same as the audience.
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True or False: Your course pack states that a director, doesn't have to work with other theatre artists designing the production.
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True or False Sound design and technology in theatre is a very new area. Sound Design in theatre involves two basic parts: amplification and sound effects.
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True or False Stage lighting has to coordinate with the rest of the design elements to help facilitate the message the director is trying to convey.
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True or False The Broadway hit Sunday in the Park with George is based on the painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat.
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True or False Influencer marketing is the process of leveraging an existing social media influencer—someone who carries a strong reputation with a large number of people in a given niche—by having them endorse a brand, support content, or co-create content with a brand.
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True or False Marketers can create a promise to an audience which simply states, "attend this or buy this and I promise you something in return."
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True or False The ZIEGFELD Follies was based upon a simple idea - sex sells.
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True or False The director sets the framework for the designers and much of what they eventually come up with must fit within the point of view that has been established for the play.
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True or False The initial framework for theatrical design is the play itself.
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True or False The set design creates an environment or a physical world for the performers and audience
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True or False Theatre design captures the sensory elements of what the main idea of the play is.
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True or False Times and technology have changed the way an audience experiences a Broadway musical, movie or television show. It's no longer enough to say that a work of popular entertainment is targeted toward a "general audience."
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True or False Your course pack states that a Broadway show is more likely to be produced by a film or television company as well as the stage and marketed for multiple media.
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True or False Your course pack states that a composer is the person who writes music for a stage musical.
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True or False Your course pack states that a theatre can be an outdoor structure for dramatic performances.
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True or False Your course pack states that the promise of a theatre event is delivered through promotional marketing, advertising, formal reviews and word of mouth which describes an event.
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True or False Your course pack states, After the Bolshevik revolution of 1918, Constructivist playwrights wrote plays that promoted the utopian views of the new government.
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True or False: "The more personal, the more universal" is a quote by Gary Ballinger.
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True or False: A play director oversees everything that take place in the setting up of a play from technical details to acting.
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True or False: A technical rehearsal allows the director to focus upon lighting, sound and set elements of the production.
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True or False: Blocking is the actors (characters) movement upon the stage.
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True or False: In musical theatre and theatre, the rehearsal process allows the actor to have the elements of the character evolve over time.
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True or False: The language used in the Broadway production of Mean Girls would be an example of stylized use of language.
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True or False: The libretto is a blueprint of action in the form of written words.
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True or False: The opening sequence of Lion King is an example of "physical" interaction in the theatre.
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True or False: The term "affective memory" has often been used to refer to use of the actor's memory to find things in his/her life that are similar to, or could evoke, the emotions required by the character on stage.
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True or False: Your course pack defines a French scene as the entrance or exit of a character between "curtains" or blackouts
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True or False: Your course pack states, after opening night of a play or musical, the Stage Manager takes over any directing responsibilities, such as "brush up rehearsals."
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True or False: One thing that makes film different from theatre is that film solely contains a Stylized or exalted use of Language
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True or False: Stage Business refers to the selling of programs and merchandise in the theatre lobby before the play.
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True or False: The "Nielsen Rating System" can only measure live non DVR audience viewing of television.
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True or False: The director is not responsible for creating a way to present the play - "POINT OF VIEW." That is the role of the producer.
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True or False Broadway producers and marketers are developing content without using modern technologies and the internet.
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True or False Costumes are about color only and never symbolically convey the significance of certain characters or the theme.
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True or False David Merrick was the producer of the successful Broadway hit Cats.
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True or False Early movie studio and Broadway producers never connected their stars to genres.
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True or False Edwin Porter was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris.
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True or False Fanny Brice and W.C. Fields were early Broadway producers.
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True or False Irving Berlin's first Broadway hit was Little Johnny Jones.
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True or False One of the functions that a producer does not do is prepare a budget for the production.
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True or False Special effects essentially encompass the theatrical "magic" and are not part of Theatrical design.
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True or False: A run through is when the entire play is performed very quickly with characters talking and moving quickly between scenes.
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True or False Every creator wants some sort of "hook" that makes them stand out from the pack and either be part of or the leader of a new trend.
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True or False Covert advertising, also known as product placement, is when a product or brand is embedded in entertainment and media.
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True or False George M Cohan was the composer, lyricist and star of Yankee Doodle Boy.
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True or False "Positioning - The Battle for Your Mind." (McGraw-Hill 1981) was written by Jack Trout and began the concept of positioning in marketing.
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True or False 73% of audiences attend theatre primarily to socialize
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True or False A Core Idea Concept simply describes the product or service. Its purpose is merely to determine whether the idea has any interest to the end buyer.
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True or False A Soliloquy is a monologue that represents the inner workings of a character's mind.
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True or False A book off a shelf, within a particular set design, is an example of a set or stage prop.
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True or False A play script acts a a blueprint for a production and is augmented by the interpretations of actors, director and designers.
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True or False Advertising is a form of communication for marketing and used to encourage or persuade an audience (viewers, readers or listeners; sometimes a specific group) to continue or take some new action.
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True or False An Executive producer in major stage productions, usually a representative, if not the CEO, of a production company that is producing the show although the title may be given as an honorarium to a major investor.
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True or False An example of vertical integration is Disney's production of Lion King as an animated feature, a Broadway show and a feature film.
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True or False Costumes can show relationships between characters
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True or False Costumes must be functional. Actors have to be able to move freely in a costume.
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True or False Broadway producers only cast top musical theatre performers and would never consider abandoning content or talent considerations by casting a well-known television star as the headliner of a new Broadway show.
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True or False Evaluative Criticism can provide the background information about the playwright or production and get the audience up to speed so that they can fully experience the work of art.
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True or False Rodgers, Hart and Fields achieved success with Show Boat which was based on Mark Twain's tale of a modern American who dreams that he has been transported to King Arthur's legendary court.
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True or False Subtext is defined in your course pack as a line spoken by an actor directly to the audience that is not heard by other characters in the play.
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True or False The Dispersal is when the show begins and the audience leaves the lobby and takes their seats.
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True or False The Oscar Wilde quote in your course pack states that the "artist should entertain the critic."
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True or False The development of motion picture technology was a key factor to the rise and expansion of vaudeville.
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True or False The highest percentage of all reasons preventing audiences from attending arts related events is that they have no one to go with.
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True or False Wicked" (2004) when it opened failed to reach its core demographic as a show appealing to tween or 14-year-old girls.
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True or False Word of Mouth is when audience members talk to each other during a performance.
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True or False Word of mouth has no influence on what shows audience want to see on Broadway.
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True or False Your course pack defines Ad-Libs as lines in a play that are spoken by the audience during a performance.
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True or False Your course pack defines a monologue as a formal speech made when two characters talk to each other on the stage.
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True or False Your course pack states that "Flies" in theatre are the flags flown outside a theatre announcing the opening of a particular production.
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True or False Your course pack states that "para theatricals" are products like hearing devices, binoculars and seat cushions to audiences to make extra money.
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True or False Your course pack states, on a proscenium stage, stage left and stage right refer to the audience's left and right.
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True or False: A musical like Hair Spray is an idea play, that want the audience to think about social issues rather than feel emotions and be entertained.
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True or False: All play scripts begin with the term "FADE IN:"
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True or False: An objective what happens at the end of the play.
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True or False: It is almost impossible to present what was originally shown as a film as a stage play or musical.
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True or False: The Dale Carnegie quote in your course pack emphasizes pure entertainment rather than creating a reality for the audience.
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True or False: The external approach to acting can be traced back to the writing of Alatore Cunningham who devised system of expression that reduced emotions to a series of fixed poses and attitudes, achieved through body and voice.
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True or False: The plant in Little Shop of Horrors is not a character.
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True or False: Your course pack states, that Dionysus in 69 was one of the first musicals to feature 69 performers on the Broadway stage at one time.
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True or False A rating of "thumbs up" or "five stars" are examples of Evaluative criticism.
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True or False A theatre can be a building where people put on shows on a stage.
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True or False A theatre producer is the person who has a vision to create and execute all elements of a production.
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True or False Burlesque relied on the display of shapely, vaguely underdressed women to attract audiences
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True or False Descriptive criticism is a detailed description of the work of art as it is experienced and perceived through the five senses of sight, touch, taste, auditory and smell.
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True or False Evaluative Criticism is when professional critics examine and rate a work of art and measure its aesthetic value using certain criteria.
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True or False Good musical theatre should take us to another place emotionally.
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True or False In the 1930's George & Ira Gershwin produced hits such as Strike Up the Band, Girl Crazy (Ethel Merman's debut), Of Thee I Sing, and the famous Jazz-Opera Porgy & Bess.
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True or False Interpretive criticism would compare the 1968 Zeffirelli and the 1996 Baz Luhrman versions of Romeo and Juliet.
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True or False Longacre Square becomes Times Square - the heart of Broadway
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True or False Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs.
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True or False The Joseph Addison quote in your course pack states that "critics ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections."
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True or False The intermission of a theatre event is a time when the audience can perform an on the spot informal evaluation of the production.
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True or False The role of the audience in a performance is to witness and respond to the play or musical being presented.
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True or False Theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
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True or False Theatre and film both rely on emotional content to connect to an audience
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True or False Theatre goers also get most of their information about shows from internet sources, versus traditional media.
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True or False Theatre is a collaborative art.
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True or False Themed merchandise is often made available during the audience transition from the outside world to the universe of the play.
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True or False We have to look at play presentation in combination with its time and place -- its context -- for better understanding.
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True or False Widespread use of technology has created a socio-political framework that has empowered mass audiences to determine what can be created.
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True or False With the success of Beauty and the Beast, the Walt Disney Company was able to create tour productions that were exact copies all over the world in many different languages.
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True or False Your course pack defines Demographics as the quantifiable statistics about the make up of an audience of a given population.
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True or False Your course pack defines the transition of a performing arts event as when the audience takes a break during the intermission.
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True or False Your course pack states a book musical is a musical play where songs and dances are intertwined with a well-planned story with serious dramatic goals.
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True or False Your course pack states an artists is one such as a playwright, actor, or singer who works in the performing arts.
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True or False Your course pack states that "Wings" are the side areas of the proscenium stage and are often used for entrances and exits of characters in a play.
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True or False Your course pack states that "success and popularity breed more success and popularity."
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True or False Your course pack states that a curtain call at the end of the play is part of the conclusion.
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True or False Your course pack states that during the intermission, audiences can conduct "on the spot" informal criticism of what they have experienced up to that point in the presentation.
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True or False Your course pack states that in 2016 - 2017 the average age of the Broadway theatre goer was 41.7 years old.
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True or False Your course pack states that rock music found its way into Broadway with the politically charged Hair (Aquarius and Let the Sun Shine In) and the controversial Oh, Calcutta!
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True or False Your course pack states that the musical CATS was initially reviewed as a "must see."
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True or False Your course pack states, Patti LuPone advises audiences to EAT BEFOREHAND" as one of her five rules of Theatre Etiquette.
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True or False: A character can be a person, place or thing that is the driving force within the plot structure of a theatrical play or cinematic presentation.
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True or False: Action is the written description of what happens. It is a description of what the character does physically
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True or False: Actors need to understand how their character relates to the theme and the action of the play to understand whether or not the character is a protagonist, antagonist, or foil, a major or minor character.
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True or False: As the world changed, and new technologies such as sound and writing styles were introduced, acting styles became more internal and realistic.
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True or False: Audiences attending Upright Citizen's Brigade often interact with performers.
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True or False: Dialogue, along with description and action communicate both story and character to an audience.
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True or False: Each audience member experiences a production from their own - POINT OF VIEW
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True or False: Every theatre performance has a unique relationship between each audience and performers
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True or False: Life of Pi and Amazing Grace are examples of a spiritual response to creative content.
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True or False: Musical Theatre is a collaborative form that uses live performers including actors, singers and dancers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
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True or False: Some live performing arts productions, to create a specific quality of presentation, use prerecorded music entirely.
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True or False: Sometimes Live Theatre Performances have portions that are recorded
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True or False: Telling a story in a written book can provide more detail than what is written in a play script.
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True or False: The book (also called the libretto) is from a traditional perspective - the spoken words or dialogue in a musical.
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True or False: The external form of acting was carried over to silent cinema with performers like Rudolph Valentino.
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True or False: While theatre, film and musical concerts have no specific runtime requirements; there is a certain audience expectation about how long a program should be.
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True or False: Your course pack quotes Liev Schreiber as saying "there's nothing more exciting than that conversation you have with a live audience."
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True or False: Your course pack states that directors discuss character and vision of the play with actors and designers during a read through.
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True or False: Your course pack states that individual audience members experience a performance from their own perspective and point of view.
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True or False: Your course pack states that the EXTERNAL OR PHYSICAL APPROACH - the actor takes on the physical attributes of the character - works from the outside in to create a character.
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True or False: Your course pack states that the relationship between a given audience and a given presentation makes each performing arts event a unique experience that cannot be exactly duplicated.
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True or False: Your course pack states, "the basic medium of live performance is spoken language, music, physicality and spectacle."
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True or False: Your course pack that plays and films have characters speak in a certain "dialect" to create an illusion of reality.
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