scene-shifter

Just as the scene-shifter was happier in making both ends meet in a room shared with two other men, than he would have been had he packed a feeble family along with a couple of men into a cheaper room, and failed in making both ends meet.

A MAN AND THE ABYSS 2010

The San Francisco Opera's fall season is ending with a reprise of five performances of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly," featuring yours truly as a Kabuki "kugoro" scene-shifter.

Return of the Ninja Geishas sfmike 2007

The San Francisco Opera's fall season is ending with a reprise of five performances of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly," featuring yours truly as a Kabuki "kugoro" scene-shifter.

Archive 2007-11-01 sfmike 2007

In size the roses exceeded the most expansive sunflowers, and the butterflies were as large as cocked hats; — the scene-shifter explained to Mr. — —, who asked the reason why everything was so magnified, that the galleries could never see the objects unless they were enormously exaggerated.

George Cruikshank 2006

A week ago few signs of the approach of the scene-shifter were discernible.

Tropic Days 2003

The scene-shifter came softly “as the small rain upon the tender herb,” but with an orchestra of his own.

Tropic Days 2003

He was supposed to be the clown, but he was really almost everything else, the author (so far as there was an author), the prompter, the scene-painter, the scene-shifter, and, above all, the orchestra.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

He was supposed to be the clown, but he was really almost everything else, the author (so far as there was an author), the prompter, the scene-painter, the scene-shifter, and, above all, the orchestra.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

This year (1916) both birds were noticed just after the scene-shifter had swept the hills of mists, and now other birds seem to have awakened to the conditions which the starlings and the nutmegs brought with them from hotter lands.

Tropic Days 2003

The scene-shifter worked with almost magical haste, with silence, and with supreme effect.

Tropic Days 2003