Sentence examples for bits of stage from inspiring English sources

"Ten Chimneys" is more fun when it's dishing bits of stage lore than when the characters are huffing and puffing over misalliances and infatuations.

Ms. Reyes and Mr. Corella filled the dance with beautifully rehearsed bits of stage business and gesture that were comical but never campy.

And there are a couple of smart and provocative bits of stage business, winking tableaux out of Regency romances, in the first act.

As the play progresses, the jokes get broader and the desperation becomes overwhelming, and one senses that the director is nervous about the audience's attention, since he inserts attention-grabbing bits of stage gimmickry (handing out an apple pie, inviting ticket buyers onstage to take a picture) that seem borrowed from the Blue Man Group.

At his best, he doesn't really direct a film so much as host it — keeping all his characters involved, rescuing the wallflowers, making sure that everyone is plied with lines and bits of stage business, as if he were topping up drinks.

(The use Mr. Kline makes of Falstaff's sword as a drinking aid is one of those inspired organic bits of stage business that define character as they draw laughs.) While happiest when horizontal, this Falstaff is not about to lie down into old age.

And the flying sequences are among the most complex bits of staging ever attempted on Broadway.

The magic motif that seems questionable in the designs is more appealing in Mr. Calhoun's wittier bits of staging.

(The effect by which Wayne Wilcox replaces Ms. Elbrick in the role of Alexander is among Ms. Still's niftier bits of staging.) Meanwhile Melissa has also captivated the scruffy, backward boy Meshak Gardiner Brad Fleischerr), who is forced by his father, Otis (Bill Camp), to join him in his evil trade, supplying abandoned children to the country's workhouses.

Then he offered Trump a bit of stage direction.

It wasn't a bit of stage slapstick.