Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Enthralled by the theater or intensely eager for a career in acting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Smitten with a love for the stage; possessed by a passion for the drama; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective infatuated with or enthralled by the theater especially the desire to act
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Examples
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Warning to stage-struck Gleeks: Don't go to Sardi's expecting to encounter the Patti LuPones of the theater world.
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CHANNEL SURFING: Broadway star Sutton Foster, whose ABC Family pilot (from Amy Sherman-Palladino) reportedly has been picked up to series, appears on USA Network's Royal Pains (10/9c) in a stage-struck episode about a Hollywood actor (Medium's Jake Weber) who comes to the Hamptons to do Shakespeare, and all's not well that ends well. ...
Wednesday TV Overview: SVU, Idol Goes to Hollywood, Revenge Is Back, and More 2012
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Based on a 2003 novel by Robert Kaplow, the movie is a coming-of-age screwball comedy in which Zac Efron, lately of "High School Musical," plays a stage-struck high-school senior who unexpectedly finds himself playing a bit part in "Julius Caesar."
Relishing a Lost Production Terry Teachout 2010
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Sarah became stage-struck in her first year of high school.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Early-Stage Actress 2010
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It's been way too long since lawmakers tackled the problem of stage-struck parents who exploit their kids.
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He was a stage-struck 18-year-old who, like her, came from Buffalo, N.Y., and nothing much happened beyond the mere fact of their meeting, which is portrayed more or less accurately by Bobby Steggert and Kate Burton in the first scene of "The Grand Manner."
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In this, her first feature film, which was written and directed by Steve Antin, Ms. Aguilera is Ali, a stage-struck Iowa girl who decides to head for L.A.
' Joe Morgenstern 2010
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If our players had been stage-struck young men and women of the usual kind, they would have developed much more quickly; but their art would have been the ordinary stage art of their time.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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I was flashed-back to being a stage-struck teenager, who from age 16 to age 18, must have played that album about a zillion times.
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Played with mercurial Elan by Joseph Fiennes, Shakespeare gets unlocked when he meets Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow, sizzling with sensual intelligence), a stage-struck young aristocrat who disguises herself as a boy so she can act in the males-only Elizabethan theater.
Close-Up On Will 2008
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