stage-manager

House, Cooke "generally returns to the [Royal] Cobourg [Theatre], where he undertakes the duty of stage-manager, where his kind conciliating manner and gentlemanly conduct has endeared him to all his brother actors" (Mirror of the Stage, n.s. 1: 19).

Cast and Characters 2008

Chance is the stage-manager of such conversations.

Les Miserables 2008

At the appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers to his cue, in obedience to the divine stage-manager, they enter the tomb.

Les Miserables 2008

The curtain rose, and the stage-manager went off to the wings to give orders.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

Audiences of friends were audiences whom he privately declined to trust; and the opinion of the stage-manager was the opinion of a man who spoke with his fee in his pocket and his eye on a future engagement.

No Name 2003

He was facetiously attired for the evening as a wild man of Borneo, and the most exacting stage-manager would have acknowledged any improvement in casting the part to be quite impossible.

Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

He felt as if a polite but insistent stage-manager were attempting to make him give a new interpretation of a part he had conned for years.

This Side of Paradise 2003

The stage-manager, with an eagerness which he had not shown in the case of any other member of the company, interfered immediately, and set her right.

No Name 2003

Together with Ariel, Prospero assumes the role of stage-manager and God.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

The assistant stage-manager organized the backstage procedure.

Killer Dolphin Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1966