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“Hello, bands,” shouts an impatient stage manager, “Who is playing with the London Symphony Orchestra?”

Poppy is one of the stage managers who, along with Max Stewart’s convincingly overworked Tim, is trying to stem the backstage chaos — an impossible feat that not even the Little Dutch Boy could manage.

West began his career in entertainment as an assistant stage manager at the Wimbledon Theatre.

“I was on stage, and she’s supposed to come out,” he recalled, when a stage manager told him Erbert was “having full seizures and essentially dying.”

Brooke Shields, the model-turned-actor who has starred in films, television and onstage, has been elected as the next president of Actors’ Equity Association, the labor union representing stage actors and stage managers.