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| a form of musical theater in which all conversations are sung |
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| a form of musical theater in which the music is lighter than opera and |
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| a humorous or satirical operetta |
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| a production consisting of a series of independent song-and- |
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| a form of musical theater; a combination of operetta and |
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| a form of musical theater in which the emphasis is on real people |
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| a term that describes characters walking across the stage together or entering from opposite sides and meeting on the stage |
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| the music played between scenes while sets are being changed |
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| a farcical literary work that pokes fun at certain subjects or time periods |
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| a style of comedy that presents humourous attacks on accepted conventions of society, holding up human vices and follies to ridicule |
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| a series of loosely connected scenes that focus on a theatrical concept |
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| a listing of all the flying scenery and what is on each piece, prepared by the technical director or the stage manager |
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| a diagram showing how scenic units are to be stored in the wing areas during a show |
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| the use of lighting instruments above and behind performers to accent the performers and set them apart from the background |
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| a costume that is double-faced so that by reversing it the illusion of a different costume is created |
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| costumes that are separates, which are interchangeable, or sometimes reversible, such as ties, vests, and so on |
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| a small group of instrumentalists |
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| a person who designs dance for the stage |
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| the dances designed for a production |
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| a person who writes music |
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| in present-day theater, the singers in a musical, other than the principals |
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| the music, usually a medley of the show’s songs, played at the beginning of a musical |
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| the music of a show as composed |
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