stage business

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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

But what does that bit of symbolically freighted stage business feel like if you’re Elton John?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2019

The stage business is nonstop, anemically set up and distracting.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2019

All of it matters: singing, concept, sets, costumes, lighting, stage direction and stage business.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2017

One cannot make pauses when one thinks it effective, nor alter the stage business to fit one's mood, nor work oneself up to an emotional crescendo one night and not do it the next.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise