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

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

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

Now to perfect the dialogue it is sometimes necessary to go over one speech fifty times or a hundred times, to get a certain inflection and to set the accompanying "stage business."

From The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession by Wayburn, Ned