Broadway Games: Theater Vocabulary-ish Quiz

I thought we'd have a nice, easy quiz to send us off on the holiday weekend. So, here's a vocabulary-ish quiz on theater related words. You probably know them all...

Broadway Games:

Theater Vocabulary-ish Quiz

1. The place in front of and below the stage is called this:

   a. the pit   b. the pendulum   c. the box   d. the conductor's booth

2. All of these people are "front of house staff" EXCEPT:

   a. the ushers   b. the house manager   c. the sound guy   d. the box office guy

3. A "sitzprobe" is:

   a. the small lights on end seats that illuminate the aisles

   b. the rehearsal where the full orchestra plays and the company sings with them

   c.  the final rehearsal before the invited dress reshearsal

   d. the small light that illuminates the stage manager's desk

4. The proper term for a legal copy of the music as sung by the actors is:

   a. the Broadway soundtrack

   b. a bootleg

   c. cast recording

   d. "Now That's What I Call Broadway!"

5.  True or False: "House Right" and "Stage Right" are on the same side of the theater.

6. All of these terms apply to the picture above EXCEPT:

   a. marquee

   b. logo

   c. show art

   d. key art

7. When the stage manager announces "places," she means:

   a. ushers report to the doors

   b. actors report to the pit for sound check

   c. actors report to their opening positions on or off stage

   d. the audience is being allowed to their seats

8. Actors engage in a "fight call" when:

   a. Equity is announcing the results of an arbitration between 2 company members

   b. when there's a disruption in the audience

   c.  when there's a last minute cast change and the company decides which understudy will go on

   d. when actors rehearse fight scenes that will occur at that day's performance

9. The backstage area where actors wait to make an immediate entrance is called:

   a. the wings

   b. the green room

   c. the fly gallery

   d. the Waverly Gallery

10. Which of these are called a "marquee"?

a.     b. 

c.      d. 

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1. The place in front of and below the stage is called this:

   a. the pit   

2. All of these people are "front of house staff" EXCEPT:

   c. the sound guy

3. A "sitzprobe" is:

   b. the rehearsal where the full orchestra plays and the company sings with them

4. The proper term for a legal copy of the music as sung by the actors is:

   c. cast recording

5.  False: "House Right" and "Stage Right" are on the same side of the theater.

6. All of these terms apply to the picture above EXCEPT:

   a. marquee

7. When the stage manager announces "places," she means:

   c. actors report to their opening positions on or off stage

8. Actors engage in a "fight call" when:

   d. when actors rehearse fight scenes that will occur at that day's performance

9. The backstage area where actors wait to make an immediate entrance is called:

   a. the wings

10. Which of these are called a "marquee"?

c.