Theater Final

Current musical theatre trends include which of the following?

-revivals -musicals made from films -musicals made from songs of popular composers or groups (all of these)

A stage set should tell the audience:

All these answers are correct.

Contemporary film actor, Geoffrey Rush, began his career working in theatre in this country

Austrailia

When a musical is based around an idea rather than a story, it is called a...

Concept Musical

David Garrick acted during this time

English 18th and 19th century theater - Garrick was a famous actor, well known for his convincing style.

Aphra Behn and Susanna Centlivre are two contemporary feminist playwrights

False

Lorraine Hansberry is the African American author of the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Topdog/Underdog.

False

Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, and Edward Albee were the most notable American playwrights of the 20th century avant-garde theatre movement.

False

The African Grove Theatre was the first black theatre company in the United States to produce major musicals.

False

The book of a musical is sometimes referred to as the lyrics.

False

What does Hamlet (Shakespeare) mean when he speaks to the players and says?... "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines." ...What Hamlet means is

I would rather have you speak honestly and believably rather than just shouting the lines out loud

When children use imitation, it is often a way of:

Learning

The Beauty Queen of the Leenae, The Pillowman, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and The Cripple of Inishman all by this same playwright have been brought to Broadway in the past ten years

Martin McDonagh

Of the following, which type of performance is defined as a drama set entirely to music?

Opera

Which musical form had its beginnings in Italy around 1600?

Opera

In 1927, the landmark musical Showboat opened. The controversial musical featured an interracial romance and eliminated the chorus line of girls that had always been considered indispensable. The team which created the musical is...

Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The play is about the Salem Witch Trials

Fresnel Lighting instruments are most often used for :

Top Lighting

A warm golden red light from below an actor's face could establish a suggested light source of a campfire or candles on a table in a completely realistic production.

True

Opera was originated by men who thought they were imitating Greek drama.

True

Productions originating in Israel and Palestine have been performed in the United States.

True

Shingeki or "new theatre" evolved throughout the 20th century in Japan and eventually allowed female playwrights to actively take part, which had previously been virtually nonexistent in Japan.

True

The Federal Theatre Project of the late 1930's also gave rise to a significant number of Cuban American plays performed predominantly in Florida.

True

The contemporary musicals Miss Saigon and Rent were based on the world famous operas Madame Butterfly and La Boheme respectively

True

There was no Native American theater tradition; rather, there were spiritual and social traditions that had theatrical elements.

True

Robert Edmond Jones believes that a stage setting is incomplete until:

a performer is on it

The Dramaturg serves an increasingly important function particularly in Regional Theatre or period pieces since their work encompasses research related to

all of the above

A wireless microphone attached to a performer is called a _______ mike.

body

Of the following, which was at the heart of the works by South African playwright Athol Fugard?

concern for political and social equality

When one set of lights comes down at the same time that another set of lights come up, this is known as a:

cross-fade

Select the response that places the following directing activities in the proper order

developing a concept, casting, blocking/staging, technical rehearsal, dress rehearsal

Was at its height during the first quarter of the twentieth century; gave outward expression to inward feelings

expressionism

Reflective quality is a function of which of the following?

fabric

A MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) will only allow musical instruments to be connected through a theatrical sound system but at this time it cannot yet interface with lighting or projection technology.

false

After a play has had several previews, it often will go back into rehearsal prior to opening.

false

Costume designers rarely meet the actors who will be wearing their costumes, leaving those responsibilities to the stage manager.

false

Each of us fills only one social role.

false

Once a society determines the characteristics of a social role, these characteristics cannot be changed.

false

Prior to 1874, when Georg II, the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen began supervising every element of his theatrical productions, the function of the director did not exist.

false

The 18 th century scholar who wrote about David Garrick's performance by saying..... "Instead of declaiming the verse in a thunderous, measured chant, this actor [Garrick] spoke it with swift and "natural" changes of tone and emphasis." Was actually saying exactly the same thing as Shakespeare's Hamlet did when he delivered his "Town crier" line.

false

To this day the most common form of sound reproduction technology in the theatre is reel-to-reel tape

false

While fabric affects the silhouette, texture, and bulk of a costume, it has little symbolic value.

false

Roman togas and soldiers' helmets suggest which of the following?

historical period

Stage right and stage left mean the right and left side, respectively, from the perspective of the:

performers

Performance in front of an audience prior to the "official" opening of the play, when the director and the performers discover which parts of the play are successful and which are not.

preview

In the nonprofit theater, which of the following is not a front-of-house responsibility?

raising money to fund a production

"stethoscope" suggests which of the following?

status and personality

The show stopping number from Aida, My Strongest Suit, uses Bob Crowley's costume design to support

style and historical period

If an actor were to stand far upstage next to scenery painted in forced perspective the result would be:

the actor would appear like a giant in front of the small details of forced perspective scenery

The development of a ____________________________ is an extremely important step in preparing for the show to begin rehearsals so the actors and director know how their patterns of movement will be affected by the placement of scenic elements and/or furniture

the floorplan or groundplan

A rough sketch that provides the basis for further discussions between the director and the scene designer is called a:

thumbnail

Although masks can help print a character effectively they are not likely to appear at all in a play that is completely realistic in style.

true

Color can be used to indicate changes in character.

true

Full stage evocative scene designs can offer such an imaginative central image that stage design has even become an essential aspect of the major rock concert tours:

true

Realistic prosthetic makeup is used for both fantastical creatures like flying monkeys or in creating believable historical characters.

true

When a performer closely resembles in real life the character to be enacted, this is known as:

typecasting

A low platform on wheels upon which set pieces and even actors are brought onstage is called a:

wagon

High-tech lights often used by rock musicians move up and down and from side to side, change colors, and change the sharpness and width of a beam of light and allow for numerous decorative or atmospheric patterns are now used industry wide. Such lights are called:

Automated Lights

Sound that recreates the noises of everyday life and help create the verisimilitude of a play, but are not specifically called for by the script, are called:

Environmental Sounds

August Wilson's 10-play cycle of plays chronicles the Asian American experience in this country that began with the "gold rush" of 1849.

False

Even in today's world replete with global communication and exchange of ideas and commerce there is a surprising lack of theatrical exchange around the world.

False

Francois Delsarte's catalogued approach to gesture and emotion (seen frequently in the silent film era) was eventually discarded in favor of Consatantin Stanislavski's more useful techniques in creating natural realistic performances.

Francois Delsarte's catalogued approach to gesture and emotion (seen frequently in the silent film era) was eventually discarded in favor of Consatantin Stanislavski's more useful techniques in creating natural realistic performances.

Actresses sometimes wore a silly smile, even in tragic scenes.

French 17th century theater

Moliere commented on acting in The Impromptu of Versailles.

French 17th century theater

Through use of color, shadow, and intensity, lighting can suggest

Lighting

The following is/are critical members of the lighting design team:

Master Electrician

A small-scale, three-dimensional version of the set is called a

Model

Shakespeare commented on acting in Hamlet.

Renaissance Theatre - Shakespeare used Hamlet to express his own desire for reasonable, convincing acting by those who performed in his plays. Renaissance performers would often speak not to the character they were addressing but directly to the audience, as Shakespeare does with Hamlet's speech to the players.

The existence of wars, terrorism, natural disasters, and other intangibles are overwhelming issues in our contemporary world and therefore _____________________________________.

The need for theatre and arts emphasizing human interaction are more important to our society

After the death of Mao and the opening of China to the West, there has been an exchange of theatre practices between the two regions.

True

Black actor Paul Robeson had a record run of 296 performances in his 1943 production of Othello

True

In Portuguese-speaking Africa, missionaries used religious dramas to help spread Catholicism

True

Many believe that the opening of Fiddler on the Roof in 1964 marked the end of the golden age of "book" musicals and yet 40 years later the Book Musical once again has established a major presence in Broadway Theatres.

True

One of the major playwrights to come out of the Cuban American theater is Maria Irene Fornes.

True

The proliferation of film, television, DVD's, computer games etc. are electronic forms of entertainment that all present a threat to the continuation of live theatre.

True

The true American musical combining music, dance, and a singular dramatic story at the center was first established in the late 1920's with the musical Showboat

True

When costumes are taken from inventory or rented from a costume house, this is known as rendering a costume

false

Of the following, which Western theatre forms influenced theatre in Asia?

realism and departures from realism

Spectacular stage effects like Chariot Races using real horses running on treadmill stages were fairly common place and extremely popular in the theatre during the:

renaissance