English Dictionary

stage-door Johnny

noun

(idiomatic) A man who is infatuated with one or more theatrical actresses and who routinely lingers in and around theatres in an effort to meet and form relationships with the female(s) of his affection.

I saw a stage-door Johnny waiting outside the theater.

意味（1）

(idiomatic) A man who is infatuated with one or more theatrical actresses and who routinely lingers in and around theatres in an effort to meet and form relationships with the female(s) of his affection.

You went off and married that—whatever that stage-door johnny's name was—and it broke me all up.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) A devoted fan of live theatre and of performing artists, who habitually spends time in and around theatres.

The stage was my obsession from age 6. . . . By my early teens, I had become so conspicuous a Stage Door Johnny that the manager of the National Theater, Washington's one Broadway tryout house in the pre-Kennedy Center era, took pity on me and hired me as a ticket taker.