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And one former employee recalled that during Shen Yun’s annual world tour, some colleagues would disappear from their normal news duties to help with the show, including by working as stagehands carrying heavy equipment.
—Nicole Hong, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
In order to get The Mikado off the ground, the two composers need to get everyone onboard: the old actors, the new boys, the producers, the choreographer, the costume designer, the stagehands, the orchestra … to say nothing of their wives and mistresses back home.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
The Tribe gang – Rodgers and eight production supervisors who regularly work with him on the Super Bowl – then trained a crew of 400 local stagehands and 15 local supervisors on the operation.
—Gary Graff, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
For Costanzo isn’t alone onstage; he’s surrounded by a company of actors, all first-rate clowns, who begin the play as his harried, breathless stagehands and gradually morph into full expressions of Mozart and Da Ponte’s characters.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1885, in the meaning defined above
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“Stagehand.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stagehand. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
stagehand
noun
stage·hand
ˈstāj-ˌhand
: a stage worker who handles scenery, properties, or lights
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