Terms from Equity: "shove with love"

"shove with love": to push an undertrained or hesitant actor onstage. During a recent performance of a show I am working on, a newly hired and undertrained vacation swing was thrown into a track she had only rehearsed a few times. The stage manager instructed the other actors to look out for the swing and to take care of her. "If she's about to miss an entrance, give her a 'shove with love'," he said, to make sure she gets onstage.