New York Stagehand Glossary

 Quack Quack -- nickname for a stagehand who talk too much. "The 45-year-old apprentice would talk your ear off. The older stagehands s...

The straight play  "Awake and Sing" by Clifford Odets was at the Belasco in  2006. The  ghost of the theater owner and impresario ...

 cross-hire-- in one theater, where one head hires a stagehand who works in a different department. "The electrician refused to let his...

shaping while baked --when a stagehand shows up looking for work stoned. "The 40-year-old stagehand smelled like skunk weed when he cam...

murder bathroom -- famously grim Broadway bathroom. Exposed concrete, the smell of urine and a creepy environment.. Nicknamed the "murd...

  to dog walk someone-- to publicly humiliate someone, to figuratively walk someone on a leash in front of others. Compliments of the rapper...

  Stagehand #1:  "The shop fucked up again. They forgot to send controller cables. God willing, they will come on the next truck."...