footlights

How To Use footlights In A Sentence

• For all their gleeful, larky enjoyment wafting across the footlights like a blessing, these are serious virtuosi. Times, Sunday Times
• From the footlights of Broadway to an ambulance in Lance Mannion:
• On stage, a perspiring Enrico Barzini beckoned members of the chorus and ushered them forward to the footlights. FINAL RESORT
• We don't know our stage directions anymore and the footlights are fading into the shadows.
• Against a dark backdrop, invisible footlights pick out Paganini's lithe silhouette, sheathed in a formal black suit.
• There is a wealth of marvellous biographical detail here, with the leading players lit up in the full glare of the garish footlights.
• He was a worthy child of a great mother, and the minute he was left to himself he came before the footlights and with one word captivated his audience, and a storm of kisses fell upon his lips and neck and arms. Fair to Look Upon
• That was why the opera was verismo; the chorus singing the part of the townspeople on stage were speaking the minds of the real audience out beyond the footlights.
• The footlights are the equator of the theatre, separating the Writing for Vaudeville
• It is very sparsely furnished, but near the footlights is a large gilt couch, on which Isabelle is lying fast asleep. The Days Before Yesterday