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WOW Cafe |
Women's one world Started as an eleven day festival Feminist theater |
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Operating Costs |
Money needed to continue the production after opening night |
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Jukebox Musical |
Musical where they take an artist or genre that already exists and create a story around it. |
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Commercial theater |
for profit theater ( Broadway/ Off broad way) |
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West side story |
Steen Sodheim- serious themes of racism, and gang violence |
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East West Players |
Asian American, spawned 40 other groups |
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Charm song |
optimistic approach to life, light weight Ex. the sun will come out tomorrow |
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hair |
first rock musical |
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Julie Taymore |
Director of theater, directed productions of Spiderman, and lion King Spiderman was the most expensive |
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Luis Valdez |
Playwright of the latino theater. Zoot Suit |
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Overture |
medley of all show tunes or preview of songs that are in the musical, right before act one |
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Arena |
theater in the round- audience surrounds the stage |
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Immersive theater |
Site specific theater, "sleep no more" where the audience gets up close and personal with the performance |
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Dangerous theater |
to shock audiences to attract them to serious or political injustices |
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David Henry Hwang |
Asian American theater, butterfly. |
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August Wilson |
African American Theater, Pittsburgh Cycle, radio golf |
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Amateur Theater |
Community theater- more of a learning experience |
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Vaudeville |
-1930’s a bunch of acts that were not related. Justa show. Vaudeville that brought us into the creation of the American musical |
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Lorain Hansberry |
Raisin in the Sun African American Theater |
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Non-profit Broadway |
associated with an educational theater, not tomake money but to do these out reach projects and expand peoples knowledge totheater. |
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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. |
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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 |
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El Teatro Compensino |
Established by Luis Valdez- Farmers theater |
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Entracte |
Before the second act, sampling songs |
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Comedy Song |
song in a musical meant to be funny Ex. Sweeny Todd "Have a little Priest" |
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Recoupment |
where the producer has repaid the investors in full |
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Stephen Sondheim |
West side story, into the woods, Sweeny Todd |
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0ff Broadway |
499 seats. 1/10th of the cost |
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Pattersong |
Speed in which the lyrics are delivered Ex. "Not getting married today" Company |
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Proscenium Stage |
picture frame and photo borders the stage.Audience seated in front of the stage. |
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Nilo Cruz |
Latino Theater “Anna and the Tropics” |
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Rhythm song |
where the beat is the most prominent part of the song Ex. “America” –West side story |
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Oklahoma! |
started the golden age of musicals |
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Thrust/ three quarter stage |
audience members on three sides and the stagejuts out into the audience. |
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Show-boat |
first serious musical, themes of racism |
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off-off broadway |
productions there are 99 seats are less |
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Professional theater |
everything that is not amateur. Regional theater, straw hat or summer stalk |
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Song cycle |
when a composer creates songs around an idea andthen a play is written around the songs. |
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A trip to Coontown |
first full length musical to be brought forth.Written produced performed by black artists. |
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The normal heart |
autobiographical play by Larry Kramer. About HIVand AIDS. Gay theater |
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Anna Deveare Smith |
Feminist theater |
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Macaronic Theater |
multiple languages in the show. “Chinglesh” |
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Production Costs |
all the money used for opening night |
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Puppets |
The new addition to segment of technical theater. War horse. |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber |
British invasion- Cats- spectacles in hismusicals. Incorporated a lot of rock music. |
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11’oclock spot- |
last major number in a musical showcase for staractor “Being Alive” Company |
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Minstrel Shows |
One of the things that started musicals. They gothrough the format of singing-acting-singing . Extremely similar to Vaudeville |
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Production number |
It's the song you remember when you leave. It's high energy. Ex. "circle of life" Lion King |
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Found Space |
A space not originally planned to be a theater,but lit used as a theater (gym, roof top, lawn) |
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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 |
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Broadway |
500 + seats and tickets $100 or more |
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Scottsboro boys |
Boys accused of a crime. Dangerous Theater |
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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. |
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two types of characters in a musical |
Romantic Leads Chorus |
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Ballad |
A Simple Tune. Ex. "Memory" Cats |