Live Face-Off Poll: Five Stages of Theater

Peter,

I recommend "Modes of Theater" or "Kinds of Theater" instead of "Stages of Theatre".

Mode
https://www.onelook.com/?w=mode&ls=a&loc=home_ac_Mode
[countable] [usually singular] formal a particular fashion or style of art, literature, clothes, etc.mode of:

a novel written in the mode of a detective story

He had no intention of changing his mode of attire.

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I enjoy all four kinds or modes of theater, in this order of preference:

Musical
Play
Opera
Ballet

Those titles are no fun. It's supposed to be a play on words.

OK, I missed the pun.

But perhaps it should be 'Stages of Theater' instead of 'theatre'? 

I'll change it since I guess IMDb prefers American spelling.

Wow, really? I would not have guessed that about the big cities. I just realized that I've seen more opera overseas than in the States: I only saw one opera here but saw one in Hong Kong and one in Helsinki, Finland. I have to see more. 

Suzy,

Are you a Ballet Dancer? I mean, in your profile picture, is that you dancing?

I used to be (although at about fifteen yrs old, I switched from classical ballet to modern ballet, although still trained in classical, of course)  but injured my knees so that was cut short. I still dance sometimes but I can't do it seriously anymore. I miss it, though, a lot.

Do you mean a photo on Facebook or my IMDb profile pic? The IMDb one is a photo of male dancers from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, which is one of my favorite companies. There was no special reason for me choosing that photo -- that was nine years ago but I remember that I think I had just seen them perform and that I think that I was just trying to find a photo that fit, lol. I've kept it, though, because, well, the color is kind of a ruby-ish color, and because I've just gotten used to it, and also because when other people changes their photos, it confuses me, lol -- I like knowing who posted something as soon as I see that little icon/photo. :)

Was there any particular reason you didn't like the ballet image? I was trying to use more contemporary images, and Sergei Polunin is someone you could actually go see perform.

By the way, a fifth option would be good so you can have "five stages of theatre" for the title :)

I will consider a fifth option, but I'm not sure what's best. I also thought about 'Variety'.

Variety/entertainment/stand-up, there must be a generic term yes. The idea is of some form of entertainment that doesn't rely on the classic play structure (unity of time, space, plot etc.)

I've added an option.

I sometimes go to the ballet here in Copenhagen. I prefer the more modern stuff too. Ballet can be modern!

The dance option is struggling in the poll, though.