stagehand
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stagehand (plural stagehands)
A person who works behind the scenes at a theatre or in other theatrical media.
The actors get the glory, the spotlight and the name up in lights while it is the stagehands who point the spotlight, hang the name and change the light bulbs.
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Somehow the stagehand on the other side got his signals mixed, started pulling, and the swan left without Papa. He quietly turned around and said: "What time's the next swan?" That story has since become a classic in operatic lore.
Calum Scott-Buccleuch, son of Lonsdale manager Norman Scott-Buccleuch, worked part-time as a stagehand there in the Sixties.
The next year, he was employed at the Bamberg Theatre as stagehand, decorator, and playwright, while also giving private music lessons.
Koken, a black-clad stagehand in noh and kabuki theatre, rearranges the set, provides props when needed, and acts as a ballast during fight scenes.
He would manage to join as a stagehand.
The male stagehand drove the 4-year-old cast member to pick up the 10-year-old thespian from her practice for a real play.