theatre terms

[rivendellrose]

Snagged from hermionesviolin: A Dictionary of Theatre Terminology.

So accurate. So disturbing. Brings back so many memories.

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[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

So many delightful memories.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I especially liked the bit about the makeup boxes, because that's exactly what mine was like. That, the lighting technician bit (ours had a bit of excitement of her own, one time, when the really old lighting board caught fire during a performance and the actors could see her putting it out with her leather coat...), and the director-wanting-to-kill-people bit. Because... yeah.

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

Eternity
The time that passes between a dropped cue and the next line

I remember when I was a freshman and I was in A Christmas Carol; the senior I was paired with (we were Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig) screwed up a line on.. I think it was the Friday of the show. It felt like ten years before I sailed in with an ad-lib. But oh man... I almost cried when I got offstage; it was so frustrating.

(and then for the rest of my high school career my ex-stepdad wouldn't let me be in any plays because it was "too much work" for him to come get me... He was a bastard in so many ways, and... just... thinking about it makes me tear up. ugh.)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I'm sorry, hun. That sucks that your then-stepdad couldn't have been more understanding!

Heh. Your story reminded me of the scariest dropped cue I was ever part of - I was in Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart, so grand total of six people in the cast, and there was one scene where I started on stage, then another girl came on and we talked, then the third sister was supposed to come on partway through, with a really big entrance and all. But this night, when her cue came, she just... wasn't there. So the other girl and I spent what felt like an eternity just ad-libbing while we waited for her. Crazy times.

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've got a lot of problems with guys that are pretty deeprooted. I won't bother you with them though. :)

And that sounds ...really damned insane. I only had to adlib one line; sounds like you had to do a couple. Erg. Brain-farts on stage are NOT your friend.