stage-struck

British

adjective

infatuated with the glamour of theatrical life, esp with the desire to act

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stage-struck

"I'm not stage-struck now. Nobody's more surprised than I am that I have, in fact, spent my life doing this."

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025

But Broadway is still the dream of stage-struck thespians.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2022

I saw it with my equally stage-struck friend, Scot Osterweil, and after the show we dissected it with the intensity common to know-it-all theater nerds the world over.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2020

Musical theater is the milieu of “Better Nate Than Ever,” Tim Federle’s winning tale of a stage-struck young teen.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2019

And poutingly she answered: "Does not every stage-struck girl know them?"

From A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage by Morris, Clara

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