Word: stagehand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stagehand told Bob Hope he had a minute and a half before it all started. "Thank you," replied Hope calmly. "Shall I pull my pants up or just go on?" A minute and a half later, pants pulled up, the comedian-master of ceremonies walked onto the stage at Santa Monica's Civic Auditorium and, for the eleventh time in 13 years, did his valiant, 21-hour best to pull up that most intractable of TV shows, the annual "Oscar" awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
...unfinished set. Enter the Count in purple underwear. Count: "We are without costumes," Stagehand; "The set isn't even finished yet." Audience: "Titter...
What is the point of a stagehand appearing in the middle of aria who paints the same white patch of scenery she painted in the last scene, again with a dry red brush? If the cast has to flirt with the crew, couldn't they be more convincing--and remember their infatuations in the next...
...19th century Philadelphia stagehand bequeathed his head to the local company "to represent the skull of Yorick in the play Hamlet.'" With an exultant flourish, a Denver printer willed five shares of his brewery stock to the president of the Colorado Woman's Christian Temperance Union. German Poet Heinrich Heine left everything to his wife on the specific condition that she remarry, "because then there will be at least one man to regret my death...
...Burned-Up Audience. In a little more than a year, a full-length Williams play, Battle of Angels, opened in Boston. For a third-act climax, a zealous stagehand had overstocked his smudge pots to simulate a stage fire, and smoke billowed out over the footlights to choke the audience-but it hardly mattered; they were already burned up. The Theatre Guild, which had produced Battle, shot off an unprecedented letter of apology to its subscribers and closed the play. In the next four years, Williams collected the job labels that are pasted on the luggage of itinerant U.S. writers...