2.  “I am your audience, and you are mine”  We are all learning together  Coming into theatre I knew I was going to be very nervous to act in front of others! I had never taking theatre and thought I would suck, hearing those word helped!!!!

3.  The stage is the center of audience attention  Many different types of stages:   thrust stage: extends to audience on 3 sides  proscenium stage: primary feature if large arch, audience directly faces stage  theatre in the round: situated in center of theatre, audience faces all sides

4.  Don’t stop in the middle of skit or monologue  Don’t come up clueless of what you going to say  Don’t announce mess ups

5.  Based on the called “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”, written by E.T.A Hoffman  Choreographed by Marius Petipa  Music written by Tchaikovsky  In 1892, the first showing of the Nutcracker took place at the Mariinsky Thaetre of Russia.  Nutcracker showed up in America in 1940, performed by Ballet Russe

6.  Written by William Shakespeare  Play of love and tragedy  The earliest edition was a quarto printed in 1597  Earliest performance was documented in 1662 staged by William Davenant

7.  http://www.nutcrackerballet.net/ http://www.nutcrackerballet.net/  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_(theatre) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_(theatre)  Daniel Paulnock, 2008  http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/histor y_of_romeo_and_juliet.html  http://www.shakespeare- online.com/playanalysis/romeoplayhistory.ht ml