Definition of stagehand
: a stage worker who handles scenery, properties, or lights
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According to the NY Daily News, several people have named Edward Ruggiero, a New York stagehand, as the man in the video.
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After the curtains obscure the participants, flashlight-carrying stagehands guide them off the stage and through dark, hidden passageways that wind around various parts of the resort.
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Moments later, once our aspiring star has walked offstage, a stagehand gingerly passes Perry her chair back.
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Under Daniel Sullivan’s profound as well as clever direction — the stagehands who move the furniture are dressed as nuns — the focus remains sharply and clearly on the debate.
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After the curtains obscure the participants, flashlight-carrying stagehands guide them off the stage and through dark, hidden passageways that wind around various parts of the resort.
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After the curtains obscure the participants, flashlight-carrying stagehands guide them off the stage and through dark, hidden passageways that wind around various parts of the resort.
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As much can be said of the scene-changing entr’acte these mock stagehands stage during the intermission.
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Hence the burly stagehand who is currently strapping Scott into a harness for his mechanical bird -- the centerpiece of his Lamar tour set, and, now, the radio showcase.
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First Known Use of stagehand
1885
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Definition of stagehand for English Language Learners
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: someone who prepares the scenery, lights, etc., for a performance on a stage
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