stage-manager

plural stage-managers

1. alternativeAlternative form of stage manager.

   She was a teacher who became a stage-manager before she finally agreed to marry him.

   1991 September 10, Pauline Peters, “The passion that thrills Dick Francis”, in Evening Standard, London, page 19, column 1

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   The Public are reſpectfully informed that Mr Banniſter is appointed Stage-Manager, and Mr. Kelly to ſuperintend the Muſical Department.

   1802 September 22, “The Mirror of Fashion”, in The Morning Chronicle, number 10,403, London, page [2], column 3

   He became stage-manager of a State-subsidised national theatre organisation, in the days when mixed casts could still play to mixed audiences.

   1971 July 17, Christopher Ford, “Life with a liberal conscience”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 1