Term of the Night: Theater of Second Chances

Theater of Second Chances--a  non-profit theater where the  heads are known to hire stagehands who have screwed up and have burned bridges elsewhere.

Term of the night: Theater of Lost Stagehands

  Theater of Lost Stagehands--music venue famed for hiring busted-valise stagehands.

Expression of the Day: a douchebag with a human face

 a douchebag with a human face--pleasant-seeming person who does horrible things behind your back.

Term of the Night: burned off like a cheap suit

burned off like a cheap suit: to be destroyed easily.  "As the load in went sideways, the contract carpenter's interpersonal skills burned off like a cheap suit."

Overheard Stagehand Line #33: "He never screwed me just for fun."

"That tech? He is the closest to honorable as techs get on Broadway. When I worked for him, he never screwed me just for fun."