stage manager

All of which might suggest the cosmic stage manager also likes playing a bit by ear.

In 1949, she won a scholarship to the Old Vic Theatre School and - two years later - secured a position as an assistant stage manager.

Ken Davis, the tour’s production stage manager, takes in the well-orchestrated chaos with a smile, gesturing at the massive props that occupy every possible nook and cranny in the wings.

Adler worked as a stage manager, supervisor and director on more than 50 Broadway productions - after being offered his first job by his father, who worked in the industry, while at university.

By the 1980s, he had moved to Los Angeles to be closer to his children and found steady work in daytime television as a stage manager.