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
Or, some sly stage business involving moving library shelves, which provides humor, artful havoc and, briefly, a visual correlative to instrumentals.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 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
Instead, Ms. Cooper supplies a lot of stage blood and a lot of stage business and dance numbers that look like an especially savage Zumba class.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2019
Farrar deliberately chose certain stage "business" with an eye to astounding, and not with any particular care for the general roundness of her operatic performance.
From Interpreters by Van Vechten, Carl
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