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

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

The Keegan performances are more competent than lustrous, but the characterizations are clear and droll, and the stage business clicks seamlessly into place on Matthew J. Keenan’s set, depicting adjoining motel rooms.

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2018

Farrar deliberately chose certain stage "business" with an eye to astounding, and not with any particular care for the general roundness of her operatic performance.

From Interpreters by Van Vechten, Carl