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Stagecraft Basics
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performing-arts
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1. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Platforms
Head block
Actual vs. Nominal
Two Fer
2. Any incline of audience or stage.
Board of Directors
Scenic Director
Rake
Center Line
3. Any incline of audience or stage.
Trump Ploy
ontinental Seating
Rake
Lighting Designer
4. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Scenic Director
FOH: Front of House
Center Line
Fusible links
5. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Milliner
Drop
Smoke Pocket
olor Elevations
6. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Channels
Source 4 ERS
Master Electrician/Electrician
Black Box
7. Also called the main drape - the grand curtain - or the main rag; the one that has to open for the show to start
Grand Drape
Arena Stage
Director
Head block
8. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
Director
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Rails & Styles
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
9. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Scenic Director
Scrim
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Fly loft
10. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Flats
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Batten Clamp
Upstage
11. Pressure
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Artistic Director
Two Fer
Voltage
12. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Crossover
Pipe weight
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Front of House (FOH)
13. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Asbestos
Masking
Cove
Producer
14. Grainer
Wings
Board of Directors
Rocker
Masking
15. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Set Pieces
Loft Block
Borders
Front of House (FOH)
16. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Perspective Scenery
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Director
Cyclorama
17. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Center Line
Section View
Gussets
Arena Stage
18. A curtain or drop made of gauze-like fabric; when lighted from the front - it is opaque - but is transparent if lighted from the back; a firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater
Scrim
Crossover
short short - short - center - long - long long
Set Pieces
19. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Gel
Elevation
Stage Manager
olor Elevations
20. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Thrust Stage
Catwalk
Plaster Line
Milliner
21. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Ground Plan
Platform
Upstage
Company Manager
22. A curtain that travels up and down inside a guide; fire curtain track
Crossover
Smoke Pocket
Locking rail
Artistic Director
23. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Crossover
short short - short - center - long - long long
Loft Block
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
24. Pressure
Voltage
Loft Block
Gobo
Asbestos
25. A passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre - through which crowds can 'spew out' at the end of a performance.
Ground Plan
Black Box
Vomitorium
olor Elevations
26. Everything hands on - the person who figures out how the set will be built and then oversees construction - works closest with Scenic Director
Dimmers
Drop
Technical Director
Rake
27. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
TPI
Pipe weight
Trump Ploy
Fusible links
28. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Fly Space
Cues
Downstage
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
29. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Rails & Styles
Head block
FOH: Front of House
Proscenium Stage
30. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
Circuit
olor Elevations
Technical Director
Sprinkling system
31. Set that's on the ground to stand on; painted
Dramaturg
Platforms
Flats
Channels
32. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
Master Electrician/Electrician
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
short short - short - center - long - long long
Platforms
33. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Voltage
Section View
ontinental Seating
Rails & Styles
34. Scenery that represents three-dimensional space on a flat surface
Locking rail
Apron
Upstage
Perspective Scenery
35. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
FOH: Front of House
Actual vs. Nominal
Overhung
Director
36. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Proscenium Stage
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
TPI
SAFETY
37. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Pit
Set Pieces
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Rails & Styles
38. Plug in wall
olor Elevations
Circuit
Fire Curtain
Rake
39. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Platform
Lighting Designer
Elevation
Actual vs. Nominal
40. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Source 4 ERS
Scenic Director
Company Manager
41. First rules of safety in theater
Stage Manager
Set Pieces
Technical Director
Look - listen - and learn
42. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
Front of House (FOH)
Black Box
Gussets
Channels
43. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Center Line
Company Manager
Trap room
Dimmers
44. Makes shoes
Rake
Loft Block
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Front of House (FOH)
45. The person in charge backstage; he or she helps the director during rehearsals and then takes charge backstage when the play is performed - also has to deal with performer's behavior
Overhung
Production Manager
Stage Manager
Channels
46. Plug in wall
Circuit
Upstage
Voltage
Cove
47. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Ground Plan
Perspective Scenery
Gel
Stage Directions
48. A stage area out of sight of the audience
Pit
Offstage
Channels
Drapery
49. Grainer
Rocker
Elevation
Lighting Designer
Masking
50. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Borders
Black Box
Source 4 ERS
Section View
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