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fly gallery
noun
Theater.
a narrow platform at the side of a stage from which ropes are manipulated to raise or lower scenery, battens, etc.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fly gallery1
First recorded in 1885–90
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John and I are standing four stories up from Pennsylvania Avenue NW, in the National Theatre’s fly gallery, the space that overlooks the stage.
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The northeast corner of the fly gallery was now a furnace.
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Why, when Booth and Barrett played here you could hear them breathe way up in the fly gallery.”
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About ten feet from the front of the fly gallery I saw a bright light.
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