With his blue jeans and boxy blue checked shirt, Hytner could have been mistaken for a stagehand until he called the actors onto the floor.

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That was a stagehand who played the saw.

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In temperament, Gelb could not be more different from his predecessor as general manager, Joseph Volpe, who started out as a stagehand at the Met and spent forty-two years there before his retirement, last year.

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He did so with a maple bat--once thought too heavy for play--made by a Canadian upstart named Sam Holman , a former stagehand who founded the Original Maple Bat Co. out of his garage near Ottawa.

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