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Stage Door
Stage Door (1936), a play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. [Music Box Theatre, 159 perf.] While boarding at the Footlights Club, a home for aspiring young actresses, Terry Randall ( Margaret Sullavan) finds her loyalty to the theatre sorely tested. Her fiancé, the radical playwright Keith Burgess ( Richard Kendrick), is tired of living “on bread and cocoa for days at a time,” so he abandons her and the stage for a lucrative film offer, as does a sexy but untalented fellow resident. Another girl commits suicide after being fired from a part. But it is a motion picture scout, David Kingsley ( Onslow Stevens), who urges Terry to have the courage of her convictions. She does, thereby winning a juicy role and David as well. Most critics compared the Sam H. Harris mounting unfavorably with earlier Kaufman‐Ferber collaborations, The Royal Family and Dinner at Eight, but enjoyed reading certain parts as identifiable caricatures, such as Keith Burgess, who mirrored the history of playwright Clifford Odets.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Stage Door." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Stage Door." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-StageDoor.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Stage Door." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-StageDoor.html |
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Stage Door
Stage Door, usual means of access to the area back stage for actors and stage-hands, situated at the back or side of the theatre. Immediately inside it is the cubicle of the stage-door keeper (formerly known as the hall keeper) who checks the arrival and departure of staff, prevents the entry of unauthorized persons, and transmits messages. Nearby is the Call Board, on which schedules of rehearsals and other items of information needed by the actors are posted, including the ‘Notice’ informing them of the end of the play's run. The stage door is never used by the audience, who enter by the main front and subsidiary side doors, but in Elizabethan times the stage (or tiring-house) door was used by those members of the audience who had seats on the stage.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Stage Door." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Stage Door." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-StageDoor.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Stage Door." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-StageDoor.html |
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stage door
stage door • n. an actors' and workers' entrance from the street to the area of a theater behind the stage. |
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"stage door." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "stage door." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-stagedoor.html "stage door." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-stagedoor.html |
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