beginners

beginners
   As a vocative, heard in the theatre backstage before a performance. ‘Beginners, please’, the traditional call by the stagemanager for the actors who have to be on stage for the opening scene of a play, is quoted in Pray for the Wanderer, by Kate O’Brien. In Opening Night, Ngaio Marsh, the callboy of the theatre tours the dressing-rooms calling: ‘Second Act beginners, please.’

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