| 单词 | stage business |
| 例句 | Service is very good, though the servers are asked to perform a distracting amount of tableside stage business. Restaurant Review: The Clocktower in Midtown South 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z The stage business that effectuates this gravity-defying coup is so simple, yet so bold and dramatic, that Tinker Bell herself might look on with admiration. ‘Peter Pan’ prequel a gravity-defying delight to the senses 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Slow ritualistic moves alternated with odd bits of stage business: knocking at invisible doors, self-caressing swivels, mimed bathing activity. International dance festival gets underway, despite visa problems 2011-06-12T00:07:04Z His stage business can look labored, and his leering mien becomes grating. ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ at 1st Stage Instead, Ms. Cooper supplies a lot of stage blood and a lot of stage business and dance numbers that look like an especially savage Zumba class. Review: In ‘The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,’ the Political Thrill Is Gone 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z In a rehearsal room three levels below the stage, Ms. Meyers walked Mr. Fabiano through the opera – and tried to drill the essential bits of stage business into him. Michael Fabiano’s 7 Hours From Call to Stage at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z There was lots of unusual stage business, including a buggy perched at the top of the stairs, looking like a scene from the Chicago crime movie "The Untouchables". Boos at Bayreuth, but Brunnhilde shines for Wagner 200th 2013-07-31T22:54:21Z Each bit of stage business is set seamlessly into the twists and turns of dance action. Whim W'Him's 'reSet' makes good second impression 2011-06-27T18:34:04Z Dinner sees a traffic jam of rolling carts parked tableside for various bits of stage business, some of which are pointless. The Grill Is Confident, Theatrical, Sharp and New Yorky 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Its biggest piece of stage business was the ceremonial proffering of a chromatic harmonica, on a table with a glittering tablecloth, partway through “Los Angeles, I’m Yours.” Music Review: For Decemberists, a Time to Shift Gears 2011-01-25T23:06:16Z It’s hard to say what’s funnier: the many rhyming jokes or the stage business, which includes an “Open Sesame,” “Shut Sesame” routine that’s like “Who’s on First” in ancient Arabia. Review: Sagas, Swashbuckling and Scheherazade in ‘1001 Nights’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z While the singers perform ably, they are often sabotaged by the cheap and obvious stage business required of them, especially in the evening's first half. Baroque opera in burlesque house 2013-03-21T16:06:09Z Presumably to compensate for the lack of showier incident, Henrich’s production abounds in conspicuous stage business: A character’s coughing fit takes a near-acrobatic turn, for instance. ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ and ‘Witch’: Ambitious shows that miss the mark 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z But there’s a muddiness to some of the stage business, such as the bumbling of the Little Robber Girl’s bandit underlings. Review | No winter wonderland in slushy ‘Snow Queen’ 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Although the play emerges as a meditation on grief — it soon becomes clear that Donna, Geppetto’s wife and fellow puppeteer, has recently died — comic stage business and the script’s wry humor save it from lugubriousness. Spare Times for Children for June 21-27 2013-06-20T23:01:28Z It's a pared-down production, dispensing with the Rosalind subplot and the kind of hokey stage business which involves street vendors suspiciously biting coins. Ecstasy and Death; Romeo and Juliet – review 2013-04-20T23:06:09Z The stage business is nonstop, anemically set up and distracting. Review | Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan in ‘Candide’? I had to go to Philadelphia to catch this. 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z What We Say “It’s hard to say what’s funnier: the many rhyming jokes or the stage business, which includes an ‘Open Sesame,’ ‘Shut Sesame’ routine that’s like ‘Who’s on First’ in ancient Arabia. 5 Shows for Under 5 Hamiltons 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Much of the stage business here has precedent, including the startling amplification of the slamming of doors, an activity with which “Fool” is filled. Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell Star in ‘Fool for Love’ 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The Keegan performances are more competent than lustrous, but the characterizations are clear and droll, and the stage business clicks seamlessly into place on Matthew J. Keenan’s set, depicting adjoining motel rooms. If you’re in the mood for comedy, try these productions 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Brown and Barnard don’t meld as seamlessly with their characters as Horne does with his, and once in a while they make bits of stage business look contrived instead of spontaneous. Review | ‘My Children! My Africa!’ still resonates in expected and unexpected ways 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z All of it matters: singing, concept, sets, costumes, lighting, stage direction and stage business. Behind the Scenes of ‘Tosca,’ the Messiest Production in Met History 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Gómez’s writing is so tangy, it is a shame when the occasional word gets lost in a flurry of music or stage business. Review | GALA’s ‘Dancing in My Cockroach Killers’ is gritty and lyrical 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Too often, just when I was falling deep under the spell of the language, I’d be jarred by some obvious bit of stage business. Theater Review: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’ With Fiona Shaw 2013-12-13T03:01:00Z For the singers, the stage business and prop-juggling is an endless burden to the essential narrative of lovers' tangles: Elizabeth Watts' often lovely Fiordiligi was under stress. Così Fan Tutte – review 2012-10-04T17:04:51Z "He would create bits of stage business to delight the audience and stop the show. But that was the problem: he stopped the show. He had a real talent but he was also impossible." Fiddler's 50-year stage appeal 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Outside of the big numbers, all carried off robustly, it is not, perhaps, as suave as it might be; the pacing is sometimes erratic, the stage business stereotypical. Review: A Yiddish ‘Fiddler on the Roof’? Sounds Crazy, Nu? 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z And feast she did, with so much inspired and zany stage business that even her castmates in the rambunctious Roundabout Theater Company musical revival could barely hold in their laughter. Memorable Theater of 2016: Twining Twins, Bathroom Sex and Cod Kisses 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z 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. Review: James Gray's traditional 'Marriage of Figaro' at L.A. Opera is not what it seems 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Other actors came up with bits of stage business in another scene, detailing the moments before the evening SNN newscast went live. Shakespeare meets ‘Broadcast News’ in a very D.C. staging of ‘Much Ado’ 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Or, some sly stage business involving moving library shelves, which provides humor, artful havoc and, briefly, a visual correlative to instrumentals. Review | This ‘Music Man’ wins us over in sign language 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z In the nature of such risky stage business, the playful interludes are hit or miss: Stunts are arranged to draw audience members into the play, which embroider the carnival atmosphere but feel a bit halfhearted. Review | A Russian director’s ‘Cherry Orchard’ shakes a theater to its roots 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z He called to the stage business owners such as Tony Stafford, who owns three Ford’s Fish Shack restaurants in Northern Virginia. Trump to use sanctuary city ‘adjustments’ as condition for Dems’ next relief bill 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Director Senior keeps the pace taut, and she does her best to offset the script’s talkiness with stage business. Review: She helped discover DNA. History may have forgotten her, but ‘Photograph 51’ does not 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z This last remark was in response to my asking whether she felt she had any unfinished stage business. Hello, Betty Buckley! A new Dolly hits town, and she's ready to add to her legend 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z No other piece of stage business has burned itself so deeply into the collective consciousness. Alas, poor Yorick! The shocking life of theatre's greatest skull 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Others close to her think a return to the stage business is a possibility but she would say only, “I’ve always been particularly fond of packaging and putting things together.” CBS Entertainment Head Nina Tassler to Step Down 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z As a start-up or early stage business, you may not be able to provide the ‘right’ answers. Accelerators - Helping Corporates Find Their SME Partners 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Students and recent graduates with an early stage business plan will receive £12,000 investment, expert advice and help with the logistics of moving to the UK. VIDEO: Global entrepreneurs lured to UK 2013-09-05T12:14:44Z Getting expert PR counsel - and using outside support for core competencies, where needed - could be two of the smartest "mistakes" your early stage business could make. Two Business "Mistakes" Every Company Should Make 2012-08-05T07:23:20Z It was picturesque in itself, and it was ingeniously arranged to provide opportunities for effective stage business. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z "You're taught in school, it's all about getting the right answer - well, in early stage business there is no right answer." Singapore pushes 'entrepreneurial nation' 2012-02-19T16:01:11Z Some of the worst of the old conventions survived, as the soliloquies, which continue long, frequent, and undisguised, but it would be hard to find even a bit of stage business that was new. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The action of farce is typically a string of blow-ups, stage business highly dependent on fast pacing. The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce 2011-09-15T02:00:12.030Z Sunday was given over to a thorough drill in the customary stage business of Siebel's part, and the memorable Monday night found the aspirant ready, but fearful and trembling. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Helen was letter-perfect; not once did she fluff her lines or miss a bit of stage business. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z I finished the play in September, and Mr. Frohman was so far pleased with it that he promised to find a playwright who understood stage business to work with me. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z But the principal stage business was only commencing—the dénouement was obviously far off. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z The stage business was appropriate, but the star's knowledge of anatomy was limited, and the gesture indicated acute indigestion. Concerning Belinda 2011-01-21T03:00:12.087Z Not stage business, certainly, for that is not my branch. Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches 2010-12-20T17:11:48.837Z Well," Hartwell resumed, "I want to get at the bottom of this stage business. The Blue Goose Same stage business, same talk, same jokes, and even funnier yedt. Show Business She had the best master in Paris, the best répétiteur; and the instructor who came to coach her in stage business declared that madame held the future in the hollow of her pretty palm. Melomaniacs The whole of this stage business was simply flying in the face of Providence. The Twins of Suffering Creek You want to get me into the stage business.” Nan of Music Mountain Was this "stage business" really in the play? The Masked Bridal She could not help thinking it was a clever stage business to release him from the necessity of shaking hands. The Prisoner You know enough about stage business to play the part of Robert Macaire very respectably and you also know that I am not very slow in Jaques Strop. My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself. Turning to the lawyer, he said coldly: "So, in the matter of this stage business, you can take no steps to restrain her?" The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life What they have to say is called a "speech," and in parenthesis must always be the "stage business" or what they are to do. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession Her figure is too petite to give effect to heroic characters; but her voice is good, and her stage business soigné. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 Here he became acquainted with Mr. Joseph Younger, who was at the time prompter at Covent Garden theatre, and though no actor himself, knew stage business as well as any man in England. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 She had long, beautiful speeches, interesting and unusual stage business; she wore a striking maid’s costume, designed by Isabelle. The Cricket The gestures and stage business will be those of Esau, but the word-painting will be that of Jacob.” Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Now to perfect the dialogue it is sometimes necessary to go over one speech fifty times or a hundred times, to get a certain inflection and to set the accompanying "stage business." The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession But for such an introduction behind the scenes, much of the stage business of this curious drama would have escaped my notice, or remained incomprehensible. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. In his peculiar notation, Asides are marked by inverted commas, and obvious stage business is indicated by an obelus. The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising "If this is a trick, a part of your stage business, won't you please bring it to a close right here!" she demanded. Elsie Marley, Honey The judgment of Mr. Warren enables him to perform any character he undertakes with propriety—but there are some parts in comedy for which he seems admirably qualified by nature and knowledge of stage business. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 There was sometimes music between the acts, but there were no long waits, and little stage business. The Facts About Shakespeare It was his stage business to be awkward and constrained, but he fared not over well, for on the stage it is easy to go too close to nature. Despair's Last Journey It was a part of the stage business to dash my wideawake hat to the ground, and—the wig came with it. The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography The stage business is much funnier than the dialogue. Jane Journeys On "No. I don't intend to until she gets this fool stage business out of her mind." Quin He frowned for the next hundred yards, or so; then he said irritably: "I can't see why on earth you want to go in for this dancing and all this stage business at all." Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl His stage business has been arranged, as stage business ought to be, with scientific precision. Shadows of the Stage It changes the whole stage business of battle. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Half fearing to insult him by asking whether he was "sincere," or whether his motions were "stage business" carefully rehearsed, as had been implied, I still ventured the question. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers The performance ended with an up-to-date version of "Antony and Cleopatra," enacted by David, Reddy and Hippy, with dialogue and stage business of which Shakespeare never dreamed. Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics Vandenhoff was paid a hundred dollars for ten lessons, and taught his pupil mainly the necessary stage business. Mary Anderson What is the point in the stage business of Petruchio's speech warning others not to touch his chattel? Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies It seemed to her more than probable that with a little instruction as to technical stage business she could gain fame and fortune almost at once as an actress of tragedy or melodrama. Unleavened Bread I do not study up any 'stage business' to help out my playing! Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Even so, he improvised several new lines and some effective stage business before he was overpowered by numbers and weight. Copper Streak Trail My part is just to coach and coach, to go over the lines a thousand times and the stage business ten thousand, and then to stay behind the scenes and hiss at them: 'More spirit! The Twenty-Fourth of June Acting, however, was still largely conventional; for the "apron" stage survived, with its semicircle of footlights, and every important piece of stage business had to be done within their focus. The Theory of the Theatre They even trifled with the seriousness of stage business. Tales of a Traveller Here was not only indicated every shade of lighting, but the minute stage business for acting, revealing how wholly the manager gave himself over to the creation of atmosphere. The Return of Peter Grimm Mother and child were obliged to follow in the train of the wandering comedians, so baby Carl was brought up amid the properties of stage business. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians We went to bed early and I rehearsed mentally the stage business for the drama about to be enacted when Bunch crept through the picket lines. Back to the Woods I have some undoubted scenes from the drama; but most of the remainder are merely detached lines and bits of stage business. Ashton-Kirk, Investigator "You were wrong in some ways," a friend writes to me, "but in other ways it is almost as if you had written a play and they were following your script and stage business." My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form He only made one condition, which was very characteristic of him, that there should be "no suggestion even of coarseness in libretto or in stage business." The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) She opened her fingers and looked whimsically at her cousin, who, despising this stage business, said, impatiently: "Well?" The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage "But at least wait until you've looked into the stage business," he urged. The Grain of Dust The Roman poets first adopted the division into acts, and suspended the stage business in the intervals between them. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The precise details of the histrionic technique and "stage business" in vogue must remain more or less a mystery to us. The Dramatic Values in Plautus The stage business was taken away from the Richardson tavern, and transferred to this one. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 When he first entered he was a trifle frightened, and his unavoidable lack of prepared stage business made him awkward and embarrassed for a time. Tales from Bohemia This, of course, could be little more than a reading of the parts before Mr. Mann, with the latter to advise them as to elocution and stage business. The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause And I felt that Katie wasn't going to have any smooth passage with this stage business which she was giving him. The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories Manifestation of violent anger is another source of exaggerated stage business. The Dramatic Values in Plautus There is positively no stage business about it. Castilian Days I have always found that there is nothing that helps to ease you over one of these awkward moments like a spot of stage business. Right Ho, Jeeves In tragedy—in all which is to affect the feelings—this undivided attention to his stage business, seems indispensable. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia Bill Coombs didn't approve of this method of ruining his stage business and scowled at the glittering auto as it sped away across the plain to the mountain. Mary Louise But do not make the mistake of trying to patch together a comedy playlet from the bits of funny stage business you have seen in other acts. Writing for Vaudeville Then there was a scene—positive stage business. Denzil Quarrier The two painter visitors had a fine comic vein, and enlivened us continually with bits of stage business which were sometimes uncommonly droll. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino But when he carried the same rigid exclusiveness of attention to the stage business, and wilful blindness and oblivion of everything before the curtain into his comedy, it produced a harsh and dissonant effect. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia There will be dialogue and stage business pretty soon. Strictly business: more stories of the four million And now it may be of advantage to sum up what has been said about stage business in this chapter. Writing for Vaudeville It was very long before even the first-rate geniuses could acquire the mechanical knowledge of the stage business. Chronicles of the Canongate Aquatic activities, such as rowing, punting, messing about with a boat-hook, tying up, buzzing about in motor launches, fouling other people's boats, are merely the stage business of the drama. Secret Places of the Heart Finally, we have seen that entrances and exits must be natural and effective, and that all stage business should be conceived and thought of and indicated in the manuscript as simple expressions of reality. Writing for Vaudeville |
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