- a variation of stagestruck.
stage-struck
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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"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
Mr. Arkin was not quite a show-business neophyte when he was cast in the 1963 Broadway comedy “Enter Laughing,” Joseph Stein’s adaptation of Carl Reiner’s semi-autobiographical novel about a stage-struck boy from the Bronx.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
But Broadway is still the dream of stage-struck thespians.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2022
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
Male supers are not so scarce; Spanish soldiers may occasionally be hired; and when these are otherwise engaged, a dozen stage-struck youths of good family volunteer their services as chorus, crowd, or army.
From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Walter Goodman
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