fly gallery
- noun
- /flaɪ ˈɡæləri/
- Specialized
:
galería de vuelo
- From the fly gallery, technicians skillfully managed the scenery changes throughout the evening.
Examples
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The old theater's fly gallery was constructed from wood and accessed by a narrow staircase.
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Only authorized crew members are allowed in the fly gallery during a performance.
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The stagehands quickly accessed the fly gallery to adjust the lights.
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The fly gallery was crowded with technicians during the performance.
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Only authorized crew members are allowed in the fly gallery during a performance.
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From the fly gallery, technicians skillfully managed the scenery changes throughout the evening.
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The stagehands quickly accessed the fly gallery to adjust the lights.
Synonyms
A narrow high platform at the side of a stage where crew use ropes to move scenery above it
Surface Forms
Morphology
flies + gallery
The compound combines 'flies' (the technical theatre space above the stage) with 'gallery' (an elevated walkway or viewing area), so the meaning — a platform in the flies used by stagehands — is compositionally derivable. However, the required sense of 'flies' is specialised theatre jargon and 'gallery' as a technical elevated platform may be unknown to typical B1 learners, making the expression only partially predictable without domain knowledge.
Etymology
Fly gallery is the name for a small raised platform at the side of a stage where the crew pull ropes to make scenery 'fly' up and down. The parts fly and gallery give the picture: 'fly' shows the moving scenery and gallery shows the narrow high place, so the phrase means the narrow raised area where the crew work during a show.
