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Batten |
a long metal pipe suspended above stage or audience from which lighting, scenery or drapes are hung |
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Fly Rail |
the upper row of pins/cleats on a pin rail, used for tying off or fastening lines of scenery to be be flied |
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Grid |
an open floor, made from light steel sheets, provides location for inspection and such |
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Leg |
curtain used to define the side limit of the stage an to hide actors/lights and used scenery |
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Border |
a curtain used to define the top limit of the stage and to hide lights, unused curtains and scenery |
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Cyc |
curtain at the rear of the performance used to represent the sky/distant areas |
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Raked Stage |
a slope platform that is lowered near the audience for better visibility |
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European indoor stages |
What caused the development of scenic design? |
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Sebastiano Serlio Aristotile da Sangallo Giocomo Torelli Inigo Jones Jean Berain |
Who are some early scenic designers? |
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Realistic Scenery |
attempts to depict specific time/place in the real world |
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Metamorphic Scenery |
Visual images that seek to evoke the productions intended meaning |
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Wings, Borders, Drops |
What are the realistic scenery items used in the 18th century? |
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Wings |
vertical flat scenery pieces standing left or right of stage |
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Borders |
Horizontal, flat scenery pieces hung above stage |
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Drops |
large, flat scenery at rear of stage |
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Box-set |
What is the realistic scenic setting for the 19th century? |
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Box-Set |
at three dimensional construction of interconnected hard-cover "flats" |
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Platforms, flats, drapery |
What are the building blocks to stage scenery? |
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Set Pieces Stage Machinery Light as scenery Sound |
What are things considered by the scene designer? |
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Visibility Focus Verisimilitude Atmosphere |
What are the primary functions of stage lighting? |
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Adolphe Appia & Gordon Craig |
Known for their metamorphic scenery. Pushed for the fluid use of space, form and light as the fundamental principles of design |
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Light (as scenery) |
can create, walls, images, and even three dimensional visualizations |
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Scrim |
a loosely woven, gauzy fabric that can make a stage disaper with a flick of a switch |
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Follow-Spot |
swivel-mounted spotlight that can be pointed in any direction by an operator |
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Hint of ceremonial purpose shows audience who they are portraying Specific individuality of a character's role Serves as wearable clothing |
What are the functions of costume design? |
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Production Stage Manager |
coordinate the scheduling, staffing, budgeting of every element of the production |
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Technical director |
in charge of the building and operations of scenery and stage machinery |
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Shop Foreman |
Production carpenters and scenic artist |
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scenic artist |
painters |
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electricians |
hangs, focus and gel lighting instruments and maintain the lighting technology through the show |
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Costume First Hand |
corrects the pattern after prototype has been fitted and hands off to the stitcher |
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Drapers |
drapes fabric on actor/dummy to choose what looks best |
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Cutter |
cut fabric according to grain of the fabric, either with or without pattern |
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Stitchers |
sew the garment |
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Dressers |
helps actors when necessary with quick changes between scenes |
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International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employee |
IATSE
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Broadway |
80% of income comes from Musicals |
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"The Fantasticks" |
8 member cast, lasted 42 years Reinstated in 2006 |
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Extravaganza |
Singing and dancing show |
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Vaudeville |
collections of musical and variety acts |
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Burlesques |
comedic parodies of serious musical work
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"The Black Crook" |
the first musical |
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Minstrelsy |
black musicals |
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"blacking up" |
coloring skin with burnt cork makeup |
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Gilbert and Sullivan |
made satirical light operas |
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Comic Opera |
Opera Bouffe by Jacques Offenbach |
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George Cohan |
Starred in "Little Johnny Jones" and sang "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" |
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Musical Comedy |
emphasized comedy and singing, but also youthful romance |
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"No, No, Nanette" |
by Vincent Youman with song "Tea for Two" |
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Rodger and Hart |
"Conneticut Yankee", "On your Toes", "Babes in Arms" all musical comedies |
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Cole Porter |
"Anything Goes" & "DuBarry was a Lady" Musical Comedies |
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Jerome Kern |
wrote music for "Show Boat" |
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Oscar Hammerstein II |
wrote book and lyrics for "Show Boat" |
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"Show Boat" |
early masterpiece of musical dramas |
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George and Ira Gershwin |
Got a Pulitzer Prize with "Of Thee I Sing", but became an international staple with "Porgy and Bess" |
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Broadway's Golden Age |
4 great musicals opened in 4 days |
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No, No, Nanette The Vagabond King Sunny Dearest Enemy |
What are the four musicals for Broadway's Golden Age? |
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Agnes DeMille |
Choreographed Oklahoma! |
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Rodger and Hammerstein |
Oklahoma! South Pacific Sound of Music |
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West Side Story |
A retelling of modern Romeo and Juliet |
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Leonard Bernstein |
composer for West Side Story |
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"Fiddler on the Roof" |
musical performance in West Side Story that conveyed Jewish Shtetl life in Russia |
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"Guys and Dolls" |
Tells the story of Damon Runyon Done by Frank Loesser |
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Bob Fosse |
Choreographed Damn Yankee |
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Brigadoon |
Lerner wrote book and lyrics Loewe Wrote Music |
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Jerome Robbins |
the 1st choreographer "Uncle Tom's Cabin", "The Kind and I", "West Side Story" |
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Gower Champion |
Died suddenly on opening night for "42nd Street" |
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Stephen Sondheim |
Composer and lyricist great impact on modern musicals |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber |
lead foreign Invasion, English Composer "Cats" "Phantom of the Opera" "Joseph & The Technicolor Dreamcoat" |
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Score |
document showing all the notes of a piece of music |
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lyric |
words of a song |
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libretto or book |
the text of an opera |