New York Stagehand Glossary

"When you throw somebody under the bus, can you hang their scalps on your office wall? I have two scalps suitable for framing."

  "Don't screw the pooch"-- Don't fuck up! A line taken from "The Right Stuff."

Shell Answer Man --famously opinionated carpenter, now retired, who had an answer for everything. Name taken from the old TV commercials for...

a talkie --straight play with only a handful of actors, maybe just two. Also, old slang from the 1920s, for movies with sound. "I want ...

I am not a kindergarten teacher. When I find a guy is hiding at 2:30pm, I am not going to come looking for him with a juice box. I'll n...

OBC --a notation in the Playbill, meaning "original Broadway cast" or "original Broadway company."

EGOT --the difficult to achieve set of awards--Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony. The actresses Whoopi Goldberg and Viola Davis has achieved this se...