New York Stagehand Glossary

 the vom --a vomitorium, an area in the back of the house at the August Wilson Theatre, where inebriated patrons from "Cabaret" we...

STAGEHAND: "Did you just see, the nasty old carpenter kicked a bucket of water over and ran off screaming how his knee was killing him?...

North Jersey hillbillies --a father-and-son duo who ran the prop department at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, at Lincoln Center, for 30 years,...

  a Punch-and-Judy romance -- when two people bicker for the joy of going at each other. "I was surprised that the wardrobe supervisor ...

STAGEHAND: "Why is that old tech so vicious?" CYNICAL HEAD: "Maybe he's become a parody of himself. A 90-year-old friend ...

backstabbing rampage --when a stagehand starts attacking other stagehands in the theater. "When the quirky stagehand feared that he was...

cowboy switch -- when a stunt double is brought into do a dangerous stunt for the star, sometimes seamless, sometimes intentionally obvious....