Definition of Stage manager

1. Noun. Someone who supervises the physical aspects in the production of a show and who is in charge of the stage when the show is being performed.

Exact synonyms: Stager
Generic synonyms: Supervisor
Derivative terms: Stage, Stage

Definition of Stage manager

1. Noun. A person responsible for the organization of a stage production, and who is in charge of the stage during the performance ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stage Manager

stage business
stage crew
stage dancing
stage direct
stage direction
stage directions
stage director
stage diving
stage divings
stage door
stage effect
stage fear
stage fright
stage left
stage manager (current term)
stage mechanical
stage micrometre
stage mom
stage mother
stage name
stage names
stage of dilatation
stage of expulsion
stage of invasion
stage of the game
stage race
stage right
stage screw
stage set

Literary usage of Stage manager

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"His ability so quickly manifested itself that he became the stage manager in 1878, at nineteen years of age, and held the same position m the Grand Opera ..."

2. The English Stage: Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Pierre Marie Augustin Filon, Augustin Filon (1897)
"... and Visit to Paris—The Role of Digby Grant—The Role of Matthias—The Production of Hamlet—Successive Triumphs—Irving as stage manager—As an Editor of ..."

3. Autobiography of an Actress; Or, Eight Years on the Stage: Or, Eight Years by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1854)
"Friendship* with School Girls. — Getting up of Miss Sedgwick's Play. — Crowning of their stage manager by the Scholars. — Conversations with Rev. ..."

4. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"I am not however, let me'tell you, placarded as stage- manager for nothing. Everybody was told they would have to submit to the most iron despotism; ..."

5. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"I am not however, let me tell you, placarded as stage- manager for nothing. Everybody was told they would have to submit to the most iron despotism; ..."

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