callboy

callboy

(ˈkɔːlˌbɔɪ)
n
(Theatre) a person who notifies actors when it is time to go on stage
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call•boy

(ˈkɔlˌbɔɪ)

n.
1. a boy or man who summons performers to go on stage as needed.
2. a bellhop.
[1835–45]
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Translations

callboy

[ˈkɔːlbɔɪ] N (Theat) → traspunte m; (in hotel) → botones m inv
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.THE One Hundred (above) will be demonstrating their blend of guitars and electronica when they support German outfit Eskimo Callboy at Birmingham's Rainbow on Tuesday, October 13.
By the fourth volume of The BP Magazine, book chat had extended far beyond the book review pages to feature in the magazine's editorial front matter as well as in the new regular column "All the Arts" contributed by the anonymous insider "Callboy" For example, the "News and Notes at Home and Abroad" feature from September 1934 showcased the "outstanding merit" of F.
In honour of the occasion, the Playwright tells his "Assistant" another unnamed character, to rent a callboy who can accompany him to the premiere.
But it worked in my favor because Lino wanted rawness." Originally, he was supposed to play a minor role, as a callboy. But the instant promotion meant the 22-year-old neophyte had to carry an entire movie on his slim shoulders.
To set up her analysis, Stern looks forward to an eighteenth-century Garrick "call-book" (elsewhere termed a call-list or call-sheet) whose purpose was to enable a callboy to alert the actors in advance of their entrances.
See, e.g., Aaron Lawrence, Suburban Hustler: Stories of a Hi-Tech Callboy (1999); Scott O'Hara, Autopornography: A Memoir of Life in the Lust Lane (1997).
RN: I started in the industry as a gofer, a messenger boy, a callboy, or everything you like to name boy.
Those working offstage include the barber, bill carrier, billsticker, callboy, caber, candlesnuffer, candlewoman, charwoman, concessionaire, constable, cook, dresser, featherman, guard, lampman, messenger, music caller, music porter, numberer, plumber, scene painter, scowrer, sweeper, treasurer, watchman, and wigmaker, as well as the various "keepers": of box, box office, gallery door, hall, house, instrument, lobby, lobby door, office, pit, pit office, and scene.
? THE One Hundred, working hard on their debut album, will team up with German electronic metalcore outfit Eskimo Callboy for a tour that stops off at Birmingham's Rainbow on Tuesday, October 16.
Tim Ralph that Haggard was already out of rehab and was now "completely heterosexual," just months after his last encounter with the studly Mike Jones, a callboy with whom he'd been having sexual relations for years.
His stage manager, Ramsbottom, was played by Cecil Frederick, and the third of the trio was gormless callboy Enoch, who was Robbie Vincent in real life.