stage business

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Schumacher “helped build our stage business from the ground up,” Bergman said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

Another part of his success was his ability to negotiate intricate stage business in an opera in which the action can become so complicated that almost nobody can follow it.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2023

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

The wit of Bianca’s “Always True to You in My Fashion” disappears amid too much stage business.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2019

Turning to the lawyer, he said coldly: "So, in the matter of this stage business, you can take no steps to restrain her?"

From The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life by Klein, Charles