New York Stagehand Glossary

There are easy lessons and hard lessons in the stage business...the young contract stagehand kept poking the house electrician in the eye, s...

rank smell of self pity -- when self pity lurks beneath the rage and violence. "During one of old carpenter's screaming tantrums on...

 talking out of his ass -- when someone speaks with authority about something they know nothing about. "The stagehand was telling peopl...

cold dead hands --to take something away from me, I'd have to be dead. "If you want this job from me, you'll have to pry it out...

bare-knuckle Broadway -- when all pretentions of art drop to the wayside and money is king. "The theater owners forced a show to close...

balls in a jar -- castration reference, possibly as a response to violent behavior or other serious trouble. "When the theater owners f...

the Big Three, the non-Big Three --the big Broadway theater owners, which are the Shuberts, the Nederlanders and Jujamcyn, are the Big Three...