stage business
Example Sentences
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Schumacher “helped build our stage business from the ground up,” Bergman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
Another part of his success was his ability to negotiate intricate stage business in an opera in which the action can become so complicated that almost nobody can follow it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
Other actors came up with bits of stage business in another scene, detailing the moments before the evening SNN newscast went live.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022
Outside of the big numbers, all carried off robustly, it is not, perhaps, as suave as it might be; the pacing is sometimes erratic, the stage business stereotypical.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2018
She could not help thinking it was a clever stage business to release him from the necessity of shaking hands.
From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice