Across
- 5. the point at which the circumstances overcome the central motive, introducing the close or conclusion; dénouement.
- 6. a dynamic visual medium produced from static drawings, models, or objects posed in a series of incremental movements that are then rapidly sequenced to give the illusion of lifelike motion.
- 9. a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary.
- 10. a musical or dramatic composition or production, as comic opera or musical comedy, marked by a loose structure, a frivolous theme, and elaborate costuming and staging.
- 11. a small symphony orchestra that usually specializes in playing short, familiar classical works or salon music.
- 13. the qualities or characteristics of a room, auditorium, stadium, etc., that determine the audibility or fidelity of sounds in it.
- 14. the lowest balcony or forward part of such a balcony in a theater.
- 16. a musician (or dancer) who performs in recitals
- 19. relating to a genre of Mexican dance music, characterized by trumpets, guitars, violins, and vocals, usually played by a small band of strolling musicians dressed in traditional costumes.
- 20. Also called cameo role. a minor part played by a prominent performer or celebrity in a single scene of a motion picture, play, or television show.
Down
- 1. a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- 2. a narrative dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal; detective story.
- 3. movies, Television., based on or re-creating an actual event, era, life story, etc., that purports to be factually accurate and contains no fictional elements.
- 4. the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work
- 7. a short dramatic, musical, or other entertainment of light character, introduced between the acts of a drama or opera.
- 8. the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
- 12. a manner of painting, drawing, sculpting, etc., in which forms derived from nature are distorted or exaggerated and colors are intensified for emotive or expressive purposes.
- 15. the qualities or characteristics of a room, auditorium, stadium, etc., that determine the audibility or fidelity of sounds in it.
- 17. theatrical entertainment consisting of a number of individual performances, acts, or mixed numbers, as by comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, and magicians.
- 18. an arena or structure for equestrian and other spectacles.