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Challenges section of this article, it struck me that it was seeming just a long litany of exaggerated comments about how hard it is to be a stagehand. I'm not entirely sure this section is true to encyclopedic principles. but regardless, things like "tens of thousands of tons of
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Suppose, adding on to that idea, we made the list of theater personell kind of like the Stage lighting instruments page, with a small description on each and then a link to the main article. Then stagehand and
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Denmark the term stagehand is used to describe the people who help the technicians doing their job. Technicians have the responsibility that things are done right and in a safe way - the stagehands just do as they're told. Stagehands and theatrical technician are not the same.
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