Term of the Day: cue lights

cue lights--lights flipped on by stage manager to indicate cues to men on the fly floor or on the deck. There was a legendary flyman and drinker who would take the bulb out of the flyrail cue light and stick his finger in the socket. When the SM calling the show would flip the cue light, it would jolt him awake. throwing the cue lights.

Term of the Day: a whip-around

a whip-around: a collection of money at a theater or TV studio for a stagehand who has had a death in their family or when a baby is born. "We are doing a whip-around for the family of the stagehand who died last week. They need the money."