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Supporting players   /səpˈɔrtɪŋ plˈeɪərz/   Listen
Supporting players

noun
1.
A cast other than the principals.  Synonym: ensemble.





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"Supporting players" Quotes from Famous Books



... number of able men, with all the various abilities that the changing situation required. There was such a focussing of factors that the whole matter appeared to have been previously rehearsed. No sooner had Bell appeared on the stage than his supporting players, each in his turn, received his cue and took part in the action of the drama. There was not one of these men who could have done the work of any other. Each was distinctive and indispensable. Bell invented the telephone; Watson constructed ...
— The History of the Telephone • Herbert N. Casson
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... the condensed play, the scenery and costumes, and pay the salaries of the supporting cast. The offer was not accepted, but it stood as the record until Martin Beck paid Sarah Bernhardt the sum of $7,500 a week for herself and supporting players during her famous 1913 tour of the Orpheum Circuit. In recent years nearly every legitimate artist of national and international reputation has appeared in vaudeville in some sort of dramatic vehicle that had ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page
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Words linked to "Supporting players" :   cast, cast of characters, dramatis personae


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