Vocabulary Crossword [A-M]

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Across
  1. 1. A musical with a story.
  2. 5. A musical that was not recorded when it ran (usually, but not always, a flop musical) and is not likely to be recorded.
  3. 6. A biography of a single individual in musical form, though the creative team usually plays fast and loose with the facts of the individual's life in order to raise the entertainment value of the biography.
  4. 7. A play with music added, but the music is not integral to the plot; remove it, and the play is still perfectly coherent.
  5. 9. To be the first person ever in a given role.
  6. 11. A ballet within a musical that expresses the hopes and dreams (or the actual dreams) of a character.
  7. 13. A show with nothing outstanding about it except that it's charming.
  8. 14. Not the star, but someone important enough to get their name separately mentioned in the credits.
  9. 18. London's counterpart to off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway. Also a major festival in New York, Edinburgh and many other cities.
  10. 21. A musical in which the idea or concept takes precedence over the plot.
  11. 22. A musical that failed to return its investment to its backers.
  12. 24. A female star who is so much larger than life that she inspires devotion bordering on fanaticism.
  13. 25. A recording of a stage production.
  14. 26. Actor's Equity is the actor's union.
  15. 27. Someone who occasionally plays a role in a show in order to give the regular performer a rest.
  16. 30. The "little people" on the stage of a musical: the background singers and dancers (and occasional actors).
  17. 31. The lyrics to a musical.
  18. 34. The payoff moment in a song; the moment when the song is "buttoned up" and finished.
Down
  1. 2. A flop musical the recording of which "a small number of aficionados continue to play."
  2. 3. Where serious actors and actresses perform, as opposed to TV and movies, vaudeville and burlesque, concerts, commercials, etc.
  3. 4. All the people associated with a musical.
  4. 8. An intimate musical designed to play in front of a small audience in a small theatre, with just a few actors and musicians.
  5. 10. To sing out loudly, strongly, and clearly, so that one's voice is projected to the back of the balcony.
  6. 12. A song in which the main character has some kind of revelation or undergoes a major emotional moment that brings the musical to a climax.
  7. 15. A song that isn't just bad but that is hilariously awful or hideously inappropriate because of a lousy tune, stupid lyrics, a bad performance, idiotic staging, or a combination thereof.
  8. 16. A song in which BIG emotions are expressed by a main character or two and the music SWELLS and sounds noble and thunderous--ideally.
  9. 17. The person in charge of maintaining the show's choreography.
  10. 19. A spotlight that is continually trained on a performer as he/she moves around the stage.
  11. 20. A production in which song, dialogue, and often dance combine to tell a story in such a manner that the show would be very different without one of these elements.
  12. 23. Technically, the theatre. More commonly, the audience, specifically the number of seats sold.
  13. 28. The music played at the beginning of the second act of a musical, before the action resumes.
  14. 29. A low-level performer, usually in the chorus, who pretty much spends her/his theatrical life in the chorus, moving from show to show.
  15. 32. A young, pretty, vulnerable female lead or second lead.
  16. 33. The actual story of a musical; the play part.