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WOW Cafe

Women's one world


Started as an eleven day festival


Feminist theater

Operating Costs

Money needed to continue the production after opening night

Jukebox Musical

Musical where they take an artist or genre that already exists and create a story around it.

Commercial theater

for profit theater ( Broadway/ Off broad way)

West side story

Steen Sodheim- serious themes of racism, and gang violence

East West Players

Asian American, spawned 40 other groups

Charm song

optimistic approach to life, light weight




Ex. the sun will come out tomorrow

hair

first rock musical

Julie Taymore

Director of theater, directed productions of Spiderman, and lion King


Spiderman was the most expensive

Luis Valdez

Playwright of the latino theater. Zoot Suit

Overture

medley of all show tunes or preview of songs that are in the musical, right before act one

Arena

theater in the round- audience surrounds the stage

Immersive theater

Site specific theater, "sleep no more" where the audience gets up close and personal with the performance

Dangerous theater

to shock audiences to attract them to serious or political injustices

David Henry Hwang

Asian American theater, butterfly.

August Wilson

African American Theater, Pittsburgh Cycle, radio golf

Amateur Theater

Community theater- more of a learning experience

Vaudeville

-1930’s a bunch of acts that were not related. Justa show. Vaudeville that brought us into the creation of the American musical

Lorain Hansberry

Raisin in the Sun African American Theater

Non-profit Broadway

associated with an educational theater, not tomake money but to do these out reach projects and expand peoples knowledge totheater.

The NEA 4

National Endowment for the Arts. Used to offergrants to individual performers. Four performers that applied for the grant andgot the grant. The head of the organization took the money back because hedidn’t agree with their opinions, sexuality, etc.

Performance Art

Performance presented to an audience, scriptedor unscripted, planned audience or not, random. It started in the visual arts,where painters wanted more exposure, from their in turned into theinterdisciplinary art

El Teatro Compensino

Established by Luis Valdez- Farmers theater

Entracte

Before the second act, sampling songs

Comedy Song

song in a musical meant to be funny






Ex. Sweeny Todd "Have a little Priest"

Recoupment

where the producer has repaid the investors in full

Stephen Sondheim

West side story, into the woods, Sweeny Todd

0ff Broadway

499 seats. 1/10th of the cost

Pattersong

Speed in which the lyrics are delivered






Ex. "Not getting married today" Company

Proscenium Stage

picture frame and photo borders the stage.Audience seated in front of the stage.

Nilo Cruz

Latino Theater “Anna and the Tropics”

Rhythm song

where the beat is the most prominent part of the song




Ex. “America” –West side story

Oklahoma!

started the golden age of musicals

Thrust/ three quarter stage

audience members on three sides and the stagejuts out into the audience.

Show-boat

first serious musical, themes of racism

off-off broadway

productions there are 99 seats are less

Professional theater

everything that is not amateur. Regional theater, straw hat or summer stalk

Song cycle

when a composer creates songs around an idea andthen a play is written around the songs.

A trip to Coontown

first full length musical to be brought forth.Written produced performed by black artists.

The normal heart

autobiographical play by Larry Kramer. About HIVand AIDS. Gay theater

Anna Deveare Smith

Feminist theater

Macaronic Theater

multiple languages in the show. “Chinglesh”

Production Costs

all the money used for opening night

Puppets

The new addition to segment of technical theater. War horse.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

British invasion- Cats- spectacles in hismusicals. Incorporated a lot of rock music.

11’oclock spot-

last major number in a musical showcase for staractor “Being Alive” Company

Minstrel Shows

One of the things that started musicals. They gothrough the format of singing-acting-singing . Extremely similar to Vaudeville

Production number

It's the song you remember when you leave. It's high energy.




Ex. "circle of life" Lion King

Found Space

A space not originally planned to be a theater,but lit used as a theater (gym, roof top, lawn)

Non-traditional casting

casting who is not originally meant from thatrole. Why does that happen? Not enoughpeople to fill out the cast (educational theater), someone could just bebetter, shock value, political statement- say something specific

Broadway

500 + seats and tickets $100 or more

Scottsboro boys

Boys accused of a crime. Dangerous Theater

Black Box or Flex Space

Staging basically a small black room no setstage or audience area. They can shape it however they want. Usuallyexperimental or educational.

two types of characters in a musical

Romantic Leads


Chorus



Ballad

A Simple Tune.




Ex. "Memory" Cats