greenroom

Examples

• All

• Before the performance began, the crew gathered in the greenroom to discuss last-minute changes.

• Eddie, your wife and daughters are in the greenroom.

  For the Boys (1991)

• We're not gonna have time to go through the notes in the greenroom as we planned, - so we're gonna do it in makeup.

  World's Greatest Dad (2009)

• Scores you greenroom access, that kinda thing.

  Beastly (2011)

• MAN: The greenroom is right this way, Mr. Seville.

  Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)

• Why don't you just go hang out in the greenroom for about 15 minutes, okay?

  Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)

• It's just that there's so much bushwa in this ivory greenroom they call the theater, sometimes it gets up around my chin.

  All About Eve (1950)

• Reserving box seats through the teahouse... sending bouquets backstage to an actor they met once in the greenroom.

  Fiction book (1996)

• I FOUND HIM IN THE GREENROOM OF THE COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.

  Mansfield Park (1999)

• I wrote to Governor W—again as I waited for rehearsals to begin, sitting in the subterranean greenroom.

  Fiction book (1993)

Synonyms

B

backstage

vsgreenroom

9 3.5

The area behind a stage where actors get ready

is a specific private room mainly for relaxing and waiting to perform

O

offstage

vsgreenroom

1 4.2

An area of the stage not visible to the audience where actors or props wait

is a private room where performers relax while waiting to go on

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology