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Answer for the clue "A stagehand responsible for moving scenery ", 12 letters:
sceneshifter

Word definitions for sceneshifter in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sceneshifter \Scene"shift`er\, n. One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who moves the scenes in a theatre; a sceneman.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a stagehand responsible for moving scenery [syn: shifter ]

Usage examples of sceneshifter.

But he was still holding it there - he could hold it for ninety seconds without trouble - when the sceneshifter moved in.

And I dreamed of home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles following me on the road across America, and my mother with a pack on her back, and my father running after the ephemeral uncatchable train, and I dreamed and woke up to a gray dawn, saw it, sniffed (because I had seen all the horizon shift as if a sceneshifter had hurried to put it back in place and make me believe in its reality), and went back to sleep, turning over.

Elbowing their way past sceneshifters and weary chorus girls, they reach the manager's office and enter.

He had called him boss (until Johnny told him to stop) because it was a tradition in the entertainment business: in the theater, sceneshifters called the stage manager boss.