stage business
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of stage business
First recorded in 1815–25
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
Some of the stage business lacks crispness, as with certain scenes featuring Colin Connor and Chilcote as rival butterfly hunters.
From Washington Post • May 2, 2022
But what does that bit of symbolically freighted stage business feel like if you’re Elton John?
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2019
All of it matters: singing, concept, sets, costumes, lighting, stage direction and stage business.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2017
But for such an introduction behind the scenes, much of the stage business of this curious drama would have escaped my notice, or remained incomprehensible.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various
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