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

Brown and Barnard don’t meld as seamlessly with their characters as Horne does with his, and once in a while they make bits of stage business look contrived instead of spontaneous.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2019

Outside of the big numbers, all carried off robustly, it is not, perhaps, as suave as it might be; the pacing is sometimes erratic, the stage business stereotypical.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2018

Some of the worst of the old conventions survived, as the soliloquies, which continue long, frequent, and undisguised, but it would be hard to find even a bit of stage business that was new.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.