New York Stagehand Glossary

Phantom lift: When a stagehand is pretending to vigorously to lift a heavy piece of scenery and is letting others do the real work. See als...

"When's the strike?" When the comedian Jerry Lewis was in the revival of "Damned Yankees" in the mid-1990s, every t...

"a set and forget"(noun): a play where there is a heavy preset, but no show cues, so during the running time of the show, the stag...

psycho button-- when you accidentally or intentionally touch the one thing that will make an easygoing stagehand go berserk. Often, the re...

Bossitis (noun): When an extra man or extra woman is temporarily elevated to the head's position and let's the hubris go to his or ...

seat warmer (noun): a sub who holds the place for an 802 musician who goes off to play another gig. Similar to a stiff, but seat warmers ca...

Intel (noun): Intelligence whether a show is going to run or not. "Do you have any intel on whether we are going to survive January an...