Here are a few terms of trouble:
break your shovel--you're done here. "You have broken your shovel at this theater."
"Dead Man walking"--stagehand doing last night at a show, after he or she has been fired. (Taken from the old death-row cry when a condemned man walks to the execution cell.)
On a short leash--when a stagehand or a head has gotten in trouble before, management is keeping a close eye on him or her.
Slapped on the pee pee--when you get bitched out by the head or stage management for an error or breach of theater etiquette. "The men on the rail got slapped on the pee pee for repeatedly talking loud during a quiet scene, which jarred the star."
"Take a picture"--you'll never see this place again.
working my last good nerve--when you are annoying someone, particularly the head. (Term favored by the late Sal Sclafani, head prop man at the Hirschfeld.)
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