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Examples of stage business in a Sentence
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Some stage business, including a crucial moment of violence between Juicy and Larry, was sloppily executed.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
The opening number sets up this tangle, and is a dizzying beast to stage, whether in a small-town community theater or on Broadway: about fifteen minutes long, a dozen singers, all crossing among one another in a market square’s worth of stage business.
—Vulture, 10 July 2022
Christina Goerke, as Ortrud, powered through some silly stage business with characteristic feistiness.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
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.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
Or, some sly stage business involving moving library shelves, which provides humor, artful havoc and, briefly, a visual correlative to instrumentals.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
One is not enough, and though Likes, making his Broadway debut at 20, is appealing in the role and delivers when given the chance, there’s a hole at the center of the story that no amount of stage business can disguise.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
There are signs that MAC Boys is a new endeavor, in the play’s pacing, projection issues and some of the over-fussy stage business.
—Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1825, in the meaning defined above
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“Stage business.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stage%20business. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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