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• Prompter — The prompter in an opera house gives the singers the opening words of each phrase a few seconds early. Prompts are mouthed silently or hurled lyrically in a half voice, audible (hopefully) only on stage. (This is in contrast to the prompt in a… …   Wikipedia

• John Downes (17th-century prompter) — John Downes (died ca. 1712) worked as a prompter at the Duke s Company, and later the United Company, for most of the Restoration period 1660 mdash;1700. His historical review of the stage , Roscius Anglicanus (1708), is an invaluable source for… …   Wikipedia

• Tax avoidance and tax evasion — Tax avoidance is the legal utilization of the tax regime to one s own advantage, in order to reduce the amount of tax that is payable by means that are within the law. By contrast tax evasion is the general term for efforts to not pay taxes by… …   Wikipedia

• List of Emily Dickinson poems — This is a list of Emily Dickinson poems. There are 1,775 known poems that have been written by Dickinson. The poems are alphabetized by their first line. Punctuation, capitalization and even in some cases wording of the first lines may vary… …   Wikipedia

• Metropolitan Opera — The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, seen from Lincoln Center Plaza The Metropolitan Opera (the Met ) is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880,[1] …   Wikipedia

• King's Men (playing company) — The King s Men was the company of actors to which William Shakespeare (1564 ndash;1616) belonged through most of his career. Formerly known as The Lord Chamberlain s Men during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, it became The King s Men in 1603 when… …   Wikipedia

• Restoration spectacular — The Restoration spectacular, or elaborately staged machine play , hit the London public stage in the late 17th century Restoration period, enthralling audiences with action, music, dance, moveable scenery, baroque illusionistic painting, gorgeous …   Wikipedia

• The Sisters (play) — The Sisters is a Caroline stage play, a comedy written by James Shirley. It was the last of Shirley s plays performed in London prior to the closing of the theatres in September 1642, at the start of the English Civil War. Slight in substance,… …   Wikipedia

• Mapleson Cylinders — A sound engineer holds a cylinder from a 1901 performance of Les Huguenots The Mapleson Cylinders are a group of more than 100 phonograph cylinders recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera, primarily in the years 1901–1903, by the Met librarian… …   Wikipedia

• Bibliography —    Published material on the German theater is both extensive and, as Prof. Simon Williams, one of the great historians of the German theater, once noted, it is dauntingly vast. No bibliography as part of a volume such as this could even… …   Historical dictionary of German Theatre