How To Use Footlights In A Sentence
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For all their gleeful, larky enjoyment wafting across the footlights like a blessing, these are serious virtuosi.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the footlights of Broadway to an ambulance in
Lance Mannion:
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On stage, a perspiring Enrico Barzini beckoned members of the chorus and ushered them forward to the footlights.
FINAL RESORT
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We don't know our stage directions anymore and the footlights are fading into the shadows.
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Against a dark backdrop, invisible footlights pick out Paganini's lithe silhouette, sheathed in a formal black suit.
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There is a wealth of marvellous biographical detail here, with the leading players lit up in the full glare of the garish footlights.
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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
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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.
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The footlights are the equator of the theatre, separating the
Writing for Vaudeville
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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
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The child, standing in the full glare of the footlights with the sunny skyey spaces and overlapping blue hills behind her, half-faced the brilliant house as, without accompaniment, she began to sing:
Flamsted quarries
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Then I got to watch the third act from the footlights.
Exit the Actress
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And his will be a hard act to follow: the footlights are bright with public attention, the script well known, and the chorus voices primed for their cue.
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Australians have created over 700 original musicals, though few of them see the light of day, let alone the footlights of Her Majesty's.
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Why he chose to cross over the footlights and climb onto the stage and be an actor in this story is beyond me.
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Being behind the footlights was a constant struggle.
Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography
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But instead of acting, he is on the other side of the footlights, and he is finding that the pressure is greater in his new role.
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I pray you let the drama halt while Chorus stalks to the footlights and drops an epicedian tear upon the fatness of Mr. Hoover.
The Four Million
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John knows the ins and outs of the acting world, working as both an amateur and professional in the land of greasepaint and footlights.
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The word foppish has appeared in 14 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Aug. 17 in the restaurant review "Now Appearing in Chicago, a Restaurant in Footlights," by Sam Sifton:
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He reached centre-stage and crossed one leg in front of the other - patent leather pumps whining in the glow from the footlights.
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Never final, admittedly flawed, it was arguably a masterwork as its proponents on both sides of the footlights have proclaimed with passion.
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Meanwhile the members of the company lined up before the footlights: the mock president smirking at the center, the half-clad girls posing, the pink young lady dangling above, the band blaring, the Stars and Stripes awave.
American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
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That got lost before it crossed the footlights.
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The sad thing is that the waves of love that broke across the footlights every time he stood on a stage were probably never equalled in his private life.
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The appearance of pity and fear on both sides of the footlights seems not to rule out catharsis as a principle in dramatic criticism.
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The Oedipus stage manager paces anxiously by the footlights.
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The choreographer's problem is how to make subtle or vigorous gesture visible to those on the other side of the footlights.
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The palm trees are unhomely, the tropical plants seem to stand behind footlights.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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The choreographer's problem is how to make subtle or vigorous gesture visible to those on the other side of the footlights.
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While novelty ignites temporary enthusiasm on both sides of the footlights, the Washington Ballet's most urgent need would seem to be productions of proven old works.
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People who find themselves in dire economic straits throughout America tomorrow may also be expected to turn to the red-curtained drama of mass violence in order to “send a message” across the footlights.
Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
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There would he lay till they would him descry, spancelled down upon a blossomy bed, at one foule stretch, amongst the daffydowndillies, the flowers of narcosis fourfettering his footlights, a halohedge of wild spuds hovering over him, epicures waltzing with gardenfillers, puritan shoots advancing to Aran chiefs.
Finnegans Wake
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Clever staging meant that we were backstage - the curtain and footlights downstage - watching the dancers warm up and interact before a show.
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Its rewards are abundant in friendships as well as in cash, and the happiness radiated to you from behind the footlights is the direct result of the happiness that permeates the very being of the smiling favorite of the gods whose efforts to please you have met with your approbation.
The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession
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The Footlights costume ladies would welcome the loan of mobile clothes rails on which to hang the many costumes.
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In the cavernous stage of the Richmond Theatre all the nuances of the performance, if any, were lost in the attempt to get the material across the footlights effectively.
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And in front of that, the stage is dotted with footlights for added effect.
Standing Out Among the Wilde Scenery
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Olson has a magnetism that leaps across the footlights.
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And he had over Byron this further advantage: his noodledom was not a matter of common knowledge; whereas Byron's vulgarity had ever needed to be in the glare of the footlights of Europe.
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
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Suffice it to say they are excellently put across the footlights.
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There is a wealth of marvellous biographical detail here, with the leading players lit up in the full glare of the garish footlights.
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He set himself down in a chair amid the footlights.
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It is entirely up to the dancer to create the atmosphere… to project or translate the choreography across the footlights in a manner that is meaningful for the audience.
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I've played opposite a lot of people I've really liked, and I've seen nothing on screen - it just doesn't cross the footlights, or translate or screen.
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a little too much to be drawing for Dickens and that the footlights are the illumination of his scenic world, has so remarkable a sense of
Picture and Text 1893
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The water, representing the Milky Way that kept the lovers apart, ran downstage to the footlights, and into a basin.
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A bank of overhead lights swivelled to supplement the beams of the footlights, while the stereo system poured out a constant stream of foot-tapping music.
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She raised her hand to shield her eyes from the footlights and, to the gasps of the audience, promptly fell off the stage.
MAN AND WIFE
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He is about the same age as Asch. Although some of his work is spoiled by an overinsistence upon symbolism, which he imbibed from the French, and much of his drama is too poetic to endure before the footlights, he is a highly successful seeker after beauty and truth.
New York's Yiddish Writers