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The American prompter Philip Eisenberg recounted the story of a Maria Callas performance during which she needed louder prompts. The famed diva swooped down in a curtsy right in front of the prompter's box and – mid-curtsy, unnoticed by the audience – gave the Italian command "più forte!" ('louder') to her boxed colleague. [full citation ...
The prompter (sometimes prompt) in a theatre is a person who prompts or cues actors when they forget their lines or neglect to move on the stage to where they are supposed to be situated. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The role of the souffleur, or prompter, reaches back to the medieval theater, [ 4 ] but has disappeared in countries like Britain, the ...
A prompter may refer to: Prompter (opera), a hidden person who tells a singer the first words of each phrase to be sung; Prompter (theatre), a person hidden from the audience who reminds actors of their lines if they are forgotten; Teleprompter, a display device that prompts the person speaking with an electronic visual text of a speech or script
Part of the stage manager's panel which is often present in the prompt corner. In a theatre, the prompt corner or prompt box is the place where the prompter—usually the stage manager in the US or deputy stage manager in the UK—stands in order to coordinate the performance and to remind performers of their lines when required.
The Prompter (Norwegian: Suffløsen) is a 1999 Norwegian film directed by Hilde Heier. It was Norway's official Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards , but did not manage to receive a nomination.
Edward Knight (fl. 1613 – 1637) was the prompter (then called the "book-keeper" or "book-holder") of the King's Men, the acting company that performed the plays of William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, and other playwrights of Jacobean and Caroline drama.
a practice of the play with all actors wearing full costumes. Generally, dress rehearsals also include full make-up and music (when applicable). Dry tech is when the running crew practices each scene change without actors onstage. This is done to ensure each scene change can be completed swiftly and quietly. This is a cue-to-cue for only staging.
John Downes (died c. 1712) worked as a prompter at the Duke's Company, and later the United Company, for most of the Restoration period 1660–1700. His "historical review of the stage", Roscius Anglicanus ( 1708 ), is an invaluable source for historians both of Restoration and of Stuart theater.