Definition of stagehand
:a stage worker who handles scenery, properties, or lights
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Christina Fish, who was hired as a stagehand for Perry’s 2014 Prismatic World Tour, has filed a lawsuit against Perry after losing her toe.
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Lange also was a stagehand who worked nearly 20 years at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora and the Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet.
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A stagehand appeared to tell frontman Thom Yorke of the situation, after which the band left the stage for several minutes before returning to resume its performance.
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And stagehands have pulled an audience member onstage to hold up a mantelpiece that keeps falling off the set.
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After Mr. Wolfert concludes his monologue — with a fast-forward dance recap — stagehands create a ring of chairs and the audience circles up for a combination of talk-back and group therapy.
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A mute group of 13 children served briefly as window-dressing and stagehands.
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A stagehand pulled a switch and he was charged with fifty thousand volts of pure electricity.
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First Known Use of stagehand
1885
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