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Backstage   /bˈækstˈeɪdʒ/   Listen
Backstage

adjective
1.
Concealed from public view or attention.  Synonym: offstage.
adverb
1.
Out of view of the public; behind the scenes.  "Many private deals were made backstage at the convention"
2.
In or to a backstage area of a theater.
noun
1.
A stage area out of sight of the audience.  Synonyms: offstage, wing.





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"Backstage" Quotes from Famous Books



... again?" Miss Hart shrugged. "And I haven't the least idea where he is living or what he is doing now.... Of course, if he should come to see me backstage after 'Temptation' opens—What is ...
— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin
... uses that kook antique patter backstage, until I sometimes wonder whether I'm in Central Park, New York City, nineteen hundred and three quarters, or somewhere in Southwark, Merry England, fifteen hundred and same. The truth is that although ...
— No Great Magic • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... The Theater, both "backstage" and "the front of the house." We follow a play from its acceptance for a big theater to its last ...
— The Theory of the Theatre • Clayton Hamilton


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