How To Use Onstage In A Sentence
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I looked up to see Brody onstage, his dishevelled dark brown hair flopping across his forehead and both hands hanging onto the microphone.
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The former calypso monarch is widely regarded as a superb showman, one of the best at extemporaneous renditions while onstage.
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An actor onstage walked over to the actress, which was not apart of the script, and touched her face as he spoke to her.
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I expect comics to come and be prepared and I expect them not to stand around chinwagging with each other while people are onstage working.
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Once onstage there was no way I could phonate on certain notes.
Susanne Mentzer: The Unsingable
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Bikini-clad dancers writhe onstage at a swinger's club in their best '80s music-video impersonation.
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Later in the show the band invited members of the audience up onstage to jam with them.
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I have gone along with your idea and gone onstage wearing same, to be stripped off by a colonel.
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The crowd diligently sang along, going through the paint-by-numbers motions with their onstage idols.
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The day of the show, we turned on the strobe lights and got ready onstage.
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Cahill breaks up the music with a string of leftfield jokes and well-crafted prop gags; he's a model-maker when not onstage, and brings a strong visual sensibility that complements the whole package.
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After a few weeks of learning the fingering on the chanter, and learning to keep the bag full to generate the sound, though, Cowling figured he was just about ready to try out his two songs onstage.
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The band has grown from a four-piece recording outfit to a nonet onstage, featuring a horn section trumpet, sax, trombone, bass, drums, percussion and keyboards.
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Just as long as she gets onstage, exposes her frap bloat and lipsyncs horribly, I'm all for it.
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Johnson onstage was somewhat less ridiculously clad, but his musical taste is as questionable as his fashion sense.
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Petrushka, the Blackamoor, and the Ballerina are four-foot-tall figures, each manipulated by three onstage, barely visible puppeteers in black.
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There's an onstage jazz trio Peter Erskine, John Parricelli and John Paul Jones, no less who appear briefly and mostly inaudibly in a single short scene.
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Producers of the $65 million musical said Tuesday, March 22, 2011, that Carpio, who plays an evil spider woman called Arachne, was hurt last week during an onstage battle scene.
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The lights dimmed and a raggedy band assembled onstage.
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The family and friends of renowned sword-swallower José Guerrero were gathered at Mary of Magdala Hospital to pray for his recovery; during a performance at a tourist hotel in Acapulco, Guerrero had tripped and fallen onstage, lancing his liver.
The Fourth Hand
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The band, which was great in itself, was joined onstage by a couple of famous singers.
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Their contention is the stage is not strong enough to have the pachyderm onstage.
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He didn't go on stage, though, but sang from the wings while Beesley mimed onstage.
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Stella goes offstage onto the porch as Blanche comes onstage out of the bathroom, and sees Stanley alone.
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The audience cheered as the band walked onstage for another encore.
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A small onstage screen will give a running commentary in English.
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The musicians will be onstage with the singers, and the stage will be dressed with flowers and blue velvet curtains.
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I also distrust the general air onstage of High Significance, which owes far too much to the handsome chiaroscuro of the lighting and the future-chic costumes.
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This disturbing trend for young white women to leap onstage is just not on.
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At a concert in Jakarta Thursday night Perry called a shirtless male fan onstage and planted a kiss on his cheek.
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The group is fond of sporting zip-up mechanic's uniforms onstage, or "onesies," as drummer Melissa York lovingly refers to them.
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This time, the models performing onstage have gained a generous reward.
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With other band members singing some of Cuomo's leads, a massive onstage "hootenanny" that had fans playing along to acoustic renditions of tracks like "Island in the Sun," and even the surreal sight of Cuomo kicking over a record player (set up pre-encore) before blasting into a cover of Nirvana's "Sliver," the band has never been so refreshing.
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Her voice has a sharp delicious bite onstage that isn't as apparent on their albums.
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Jamie Lidell, an Englishman who has spent time on the Berlin electronica scene, bounded onstage wearing a gold-lamé jacket with a gold-tinsel wig.
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With three years of top training that included practical experience coupled with the personal magnetism he had onstage, Sansom is well positioned for the next challenge of his career.
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The country music star is all butterflies and Jesus love onstage, but this scintillating Facebook quiz of a listicle is a cry for help from a cold, lonely prison.
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You don't like being onstage in nothing but a skintight unitard?
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Throughout his career, Shakespeare has brought onstage fairies, gliosis, demons, and monsters to mingle with his more recognizably human characters.
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He has, until this point, been so softly spoken, so benign-looking with his white hair and white beard, that it's easy to forget the power he's able to unloose onstage.
Derek Jacobi's King Lear: 'I've always felt slightly young for the role, but now I'm 72…'
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He has a nervous energy that makes his onstage presence intense and mesmerizing.
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It was an onstage costume change.
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The second time I was onstage, I misspelled the word caterpillar and soaked a perfectly good purple skirt with my own urine.
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed
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GG Allin is perhaps best remembered for his notorious live performances which typically featured transgressive acts, such as Allin defecating and urinating onstage, rolling in feces and often consuming excrement, performing naked, committing self-injury, and attacking audience members.
Documenting Reality
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A couple of things were going wrong onstage.
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In front of his desk sits a scale model of the animal that barged its way onstage during his rampageous 2007 production of Ionesco's Rhinoceros; next to it is a memento from Jerusalem.
Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
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And, Josephine is watching the Sound of Music this morning, because when we went by the theatre on King on Tuesday, she saw the sign for the upcoming show, and now wants to practice being the littlest "Sound of Music kid" in case there's an emergency and they need her to come up from the audience and go onstage.
Tell Me Something Good
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Neuhauser won in 1925 with the word "gladiolus" and Bell won in 1926 with the "cerise," so bee officials placed an arrangement of cerise-colored gladioli at the base of the trophy pedestal onstage.
Pa. girl wins Bee with 'cymotrichous'
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The more they drank onstage, the more they indulged a liking for obscure in-group nonsense, the louder the audience cheered.
When the Rat Pack ruled supreme
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But the cuddly domesticated Osborne was far less eccentric, and far less distinctive, than his onstage persona had led audiences to expect.
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Eventually the band bounded onstage - horns blaring, double bass pounding and trumpets proclaiming that yes indeed, the mighty Skatalites had arrived.
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Beastmaster Bill and I will participate in an “unrehearsed, unscripted, onstage conversation” with Walt Goatberg and his DATY sidekick whose name escapes me.
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The singer reportedly broke down and wept onstage, even as her Chinese supporters cheered her on and called out to her not to cry.
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Without uncharitably giving away Dolly's age, I'll say that the purpose of our 1978 Weekender story was to celebrate her 50th year in showbiz - and to mention that she first appeared onstage when she was 5.
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Blood relations appearing onstage together usually lend a show an extra charge.
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Lupone, who played sousaphone in her high school marching band, will be hoisting a tuba onstage.
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I'm sure he is a very, very, very nice chap in real life, but onstage, he is truly dreadful.
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Throughout the process she observed how Mr. Bokaer's hectic schedule made him distant, but during a performance of "Anchises" in England they had a moment onstage.
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While the party onstage might not be in full swing, as an audience, you'll certainly enjoy it.
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I return my eyes to the male onstage auditioning for one of the female parts; it's scary how good his drag outfit looks on him.
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The alcohol and the gyrating male bodies onstage combine to bring the women to a state of frenzied rapture.
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Onstage you have actors who've been performing musical comedy a long time.
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He appeared onstage in a necktie, prior to the president's arrival.
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Dressed in a cashmere twin set and pearl necklace, she stood making the sign of the horns with her hand, sticking out her tongue, and screaming like crazy while her daughter humped a piano bench onstage.
Welcome to My World
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He plays the part of the lion that roars onstage in Act 5.
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She is very dramatic as in all the roles she tackles, and I am sure that live onstage she is much more convincing.
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On Wednesday, the president would arrive in town, and he and the vice president would be renominated and briefly appear with their families onstage.
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Everything has been beefed up, from the sound to the onstage visuals, now in dazzling Human League proportions.
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By the end of the act, he is lurking perpetually onstage, moaning and berating by degrees.
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it was time for her to go onstage
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The first time Elvis gyrated onstage, the crowd went wild.
John W. Whitehead: Elvis Presley: Down Lonely Street at the Heartbreak Hotel
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Although known primarily as cinematic masterpieces, each of these movies was originally produced onstage.
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They have two jars in front of them onstage.
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She is an immensely talented actress and a pleasure to watch onstage.
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The "ordinary woman who was called onstage at an extraordinary time," as she wrote of herself, was last in the spotlight after her husband of 58 years, Gerald Ford, died Dec. 26, 2006, also at the age of 93.
Former first lady Betty Ford dead at 93
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It's hissy and it lacks the wallop of the onstage quartet, who play their own instruments.
Times, Sunday Times
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Half an hour into the ballet, the caucus race is the first time a group of characters appears onstage together since the opening scene.
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Besides the onstage happenings, there was plenty going on offstage, as well.
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Earlier this month, an actor playing Spider-Man fell short during a stunt that was supposed to send him over Ms. Carpio, who plays the spider villainess Arachne, while the two were engaged in an onstage battle scene.
'Spidey' Villain Awaits Her Fate
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And after Jeanine graduated from college with a degree in theater, I cheered for her as she became a sought-after voice and acting teacher, winning roles onstage and in commercials.
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I place the rig behind the piano onstage, right next to my splitter box, set the levels at soundcheck and we're good to go.
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Partying it up onstage, he took the crowd through a trip of old-time hits, covering some of the most popular tunes of our time.
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As the two lovers exit, Helena is left onstage alone with her conniving thoughts.
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They were now pressed together by the tens of thousands, and they exploded in a frenzy of cheering and ululation when he came onstage.
Jacob’s Ladder
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To keep the drums from becoming overpowering onstage and in the mix, they were muted with a set of SoundOff drum set silencers.
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First to appear onstage, in front of the eponymous crimson drapery, is Nate Newton as Hieronymus the Host, a largely mute M.C. who's dressed like an organ-grinder's monkey, with red sequined suspenders and a too-small red sequined top hat.
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It seemed fitting that when the Warped buses rolled into Florida and the city of Pompano Beach, police issued an edict to ban all onstage profanity.
Fallin’ Up
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When you are onstage, you want to feel pretty; you don't want to look schlumpy.
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The band is also known for its hard-hitting political satire and onstage antics.
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As if drawn by the music, dancers began to file onstage, warming up, freestyling, and egging each other on, like a flashback to a lunchroom scene from television's Fame.
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Following an onstage nervous breakdown, Bamford moves back to her cold and kooky family in Minnesota to get her head together.
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Jimmy Stewart finally dodders onstage in a dark gray suit and dark-rimmed glasses.
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Bouncing onstage in a tiny pair of shorts, she wastes no time in getting the crowd crunk with a string of tracks from her debut album.
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True, he sometimes felt an unexpected sense of exultant extra life onstage.
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The audience is further alienated from the onstage exchanges by the sound design.
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During the opening ceremony, 56-year old Runggye Adak, a respected senior of the nomadic community, strode onstage -- an unexpected presence among Chinese military guests and dignitaries in attendance.
Kate Saunders: Pictures From Tibet That Tell a Story of Courage
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There will also be a segment devoted to racial reconciliation, with pastors of different races and ethnic groups meeting onstage.
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The guy loves music, and this was apparent every single time he was onstage.
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I'm not sure if this is normal for most actors, but drinking beer and smoking reefers seems to be the best way to prepare to go onstage for the cast of Wilhelm Reich in Hell.
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A sensational onstage music ensemble, dominated by percussionists and two dynamic singers in gold caftans and headdresses, make the music as vivid as the dancing.
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And what I found was that the people who were criticizing him were being just as shrill and obnoxious as he was being onstage at the Oscars.
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A heavyset woman in the front row was the first person to make it onstage, and she slapped her hands on him like she was trying to knock him out.
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At times Sam Brown's production makes Gill's subtext overly apparent: the cast are onstage throughout so that, when Dennis goes to kill a bluebottle, he attacks his father seen praying behind Annemarie Woods's set.
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First onstage following the intermission was a single dancer wearing a flight attendant's uniform.
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A sensational onstage music ensemble, dominated by percussionists and two dynamic singers in gold caftans and headdresses, make the music as vivid as the dancing.
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It was that Bengal tiger of a ballerina, Sofiane Sylve, stalking onstage on steely pointes, as if France itself had come to explicate this most elusive of texts.
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The drums were coming through this huge amplifier stack and it was louder than onstage.
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So does the big mincing machine: not onstage for long, but long enough.
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But give the poor musicians at least a few minutes to get settled in onstage before you shatter their illusion that you might be here for more than just the one three-minute song.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
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The coat he designed himself and wore onstage, familiar from gloomy photographs of the otherwise highly photogenic figure, is displayed in a glass case.
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Even in the winter of his years, he maintained his slim necktie, suspicious glances, overall decency and a peculiar use of his fedora onstage.
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Now he's dressed as a lion, dancing the cha-cha onstage.
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Onstage she is a human dynamo, spending the hour in perpetual motion.
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Boyle, who appeared onstage to present an award, caused the biggest stir of the night with her outfit: an outrageous pink tutu accented by ribbons wrapped around her calves.
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He played in a band, the Holy Modal Rounders, and his early plays often required their casts to ‘do the frug onstage’.
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Looking very comfortable with each other onstage, it let the audience get into their music.
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We proceeded to punk up and new wave traditional festive songs, smash our guitars onstage to the horror of the audience and made cheong-sammed banshees and rosy-cheeked schoolchildren quake in their dressing rooms.
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A projection screen flickers into life and Hope Of The States shamble onstage in that endearingly scruffy way that seems rather at odds with their borderline-highbrow music.
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Beastmaster Bill and I will participate in an "unrehearsed, unscripted, onstage conversation" with Walt Goatberg and his DATY sidekick whose name escapes me.
Re: this upcoming historic joint appearance
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Zack sits down in front of a computer onstage and silently plays a hentai game for 50 minutes, pausing to glare at any audience member that dares to make a noise.
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By the time I arrived, locals were being herded in for the late shift - among them dozens of fierce, heavily made-up women who were not shy about jumping onstage and bra-flashing the crowd.
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As the minutes of silence and confusion unfolded, the crush eased and a visibly shaken band were allowed back onstage.
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The soloists, too, delivered a fetching geometry onstage, delightful to Balanchine aficionados anytime.
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When dancing wildly onstage , she looks just like a pretty elf.
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Her first appearance onstage brought the house down.
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Onstage he is not the most charismatic, call and response rocker on the planet.
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Latterly she was even behind her audiences, who could see the punchlines for her onstage jokes rolling up on her Teleprompter before Streisand could mouth them.
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My job onstage is to be as open as possible, to weave the show without a script as it comes, and this leaves me very emotionally available -- and vulnerable, if an audience chooses to abuse that trust.
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Hurwitz came onstage and spouted high-sounding phrases for 45 minutes.
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It was horrible before, then afterwards you just want to go back onstage.
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Now you'd be more likely to catch the peace-loving band supporting women's rights than slapping the behinds of onstage dancing girls, who used to form part of their live act.
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Three other McCain advisors were sitting onstage, but it was Lieberman — whom Barack Obama endorsed just two years ago, when he faced a primary challenge — who volubly took the lead in criticizing the Democratic candidate, whom he described as unprepared to lead the country through a Manichaean global struggle.
Lieberman Drops by Foreign-Policy Forum, Explains Himself, Shreds Obama
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When they finally came onstage, my attention immediately was drawn to their pants.
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Even today I get nervous before I go onstage .
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She was the one who really belonged onstage and she dragged me onstage along with her.
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The band came back onstage for an encore.
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It's hissy and it lacks the wallop of the onstage quartet, who play their own instruments.
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Each song received great cheers - and a couple of pairs of flimsy underwear were thrown onstage before the night ended.
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Onstage, we could hear the screams for the boys to encore!
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To pad out the running time, there's a lot of medieval hugga-mugga onstage and off, and some antic athletics by Mr. Dafoe, who would be right at home in the Cirque du Soleil.
Sex, Murder and Medieval Melodrama
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Yet, Juan and I - engaged in some innocent hand-holding, far less provocative than what was happening onstage or in the aisles - were the subject of many withering glances.
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At the play's curtain, Jefferson invites director Moises Kaufman and me to join him onstage.
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Thus the band is left with studio recordings that are almost impossible to duplicate onstage.
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Like those onstage, many of the celebs attending were of the more vintage variety.
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Even if you have a stable position in a company, every time you are onstage is potentially an audition for your next role.
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Sometimes the entire cast is onstage as antiphonal voices from all over; sometimes a few characters linger silently on the fringes of the unit set that, as designed by John Lee Beatty, is both simple and versatile.
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The onstage version of "American Idiot" contains no dialogue, only intermittent snippets of first-person narration, and Michael Mayer's image-driven video-style staging is discontinuous to the point of plotlessness.
Size Matters
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To add pep to the proceedings, a surprise guest from the film world was to make her appearance onstage, soon after the formal inauguration was over.
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I remember the first time I went onstage. I freaked out completely.
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Although onstage he covered the standard repertoire in depth, he also sought out important contemporary works.
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Tony jumped past me, somersaulting onstage, and straightening up with a flower between his teeth.
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Nine musicians, clad in head-to-toe black, slowly walked onstage playing a dirgelike Just a Closer Walk With Thee.
Jackson honored at Essence Music Festival
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At these events, the audience may provide as much of the show and the drama as what goes on onstage.
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But for long stretches, he was left alone onstage, looking, in François St. - Aubin's costumes, much like the singer Meat Loaf (a resemblance frequently commented on after opening night), and his singing reflected his lack of direction.
The Met's 'Das Rheingold': Cast for the simulcast?
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They walked off for the interval and I had to go onstage.
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THE BADTreating "technical award" nominees like fourth-class citizens by lining them up onstage or handing out their awards in the aisle.
Newsmakers
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You and your wife are particular about designing your onstage outfits.
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Monica glided onstage with her usual confidence and poise - ever polished, meticulously refined and supremely confident.
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His anatomization of a profoundly-and yet not all that exceptionally-dysfunctional Oklahoma family is almost as compelling on the page as it is onstage.
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Folky harmonising that combines romantic songs with onstage squabbles.
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Her onstage patter relied heavily on a certain expletive, and she undercut "Basket Case," the evening's most doleful offering, by dedicating it to "everyone out there who's sad.
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But in that hour onstage, we felt hope, and that is the power of music: it heals, it galvanizes, it empowers.
Fallin’ Up
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Like those onstage, many of the celebs attending were of the more vintage variety.
The Sun
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Gar's new sense of pride onstage derives from a deeper understanding of music and a renewed - consciousness .
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They have two jars in front of them onstage.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a moody album that has a definite dark edge which actually translates really well onstage.
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In a photo from 1955, she is seen onstage around the time she made her first recordings with a local band.
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Instead, they re-enact the event onstage with an inferior ‘tribute’ while a bare-chested Black displays a stomach that is less washboard and more washing machine, a bulky turbulent affair.
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The same holds true onstage, where she entertained large crowds of expectant fans during a month-long, consistently sold-out U.S. tour.
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They're not only super sexy, they also are totally hyper and so much fun onstage.
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However, it is wise to leave the history in the classroom and concentrate on the drama onstage.
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In the middle of this smoky, beery evening, a tall, lanky figure walks onstage wearing a grotesque hare-lipped mask.
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The chorus of 34 and orchestra 42 players plus a continuo group of eight were superb; a group of the players even performed onstage in costume for the Dream scene.
The Sad Tale It Tells Is Myth; Its Joys, Real
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Participants -- great blowsy orators and the rest -- performed for the writing press before that, of course, but their being onstage live before the whole televiewing public was bound to lead to this.
Convention Circus
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She was exchanging private glances with Joel and beaming from the audience like a proud mother (and looking a lot like Mrs. Miller from “Almost Famous”) every time the brothers were onstage.
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She could feel the entire theater's eyes on her; she knew that every one of those beginning theatre students was jealous of her talent, her energy, her grace, her pure refulgence onstage.
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He and Ms. Cattrall have terrific onstage chemistry, and their romantic scenes couldn't be sexier, but whenever the tone of "Private Lives" turns comic, her overemphatic, inadequately varied delivery undercuts the humor.
When Coward's Amanda Turns Cougar
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In what looks like an average onstage dissection of a relationship, a boyfriend and girlfriend who live together bicker and spar over trivialities.
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She is very dramatic as in all the roles she tackles, and I am sure that live onstage she is much more convincing.
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And backstage passes for Glastonbury so I can go onstage with the bands.
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At first, the onstage listeners (dressed in basic ballet gear, plus hats, glasses and handbags) are caught up in their own individual responses.
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The opera unleashes powerful gusts of physical energy onstage.
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It was not only onstage that profound emotions stirred under a cool, unruffled surface.
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It begs the question, in a time when any live music is becoming rare, why was he on a stage or why did he want to be onstage?
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She phones her friend Myron David Wilson Barnes, the local fire chief on Long Beach Island, ostensibly to alert him to this potential suicide but, more germanely, so that Mr. Braff can usher another character onstage.
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The translated dialogue of "Diciembre" is projected in English supertitles that do not adequately communicate the interactive flow of these captivating onstage protagonists.
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Canned burlesque music announces the show, and three male dancers stride onstage.
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This person has had surgery to correct foot injuries caused by performances onstage.
The Sun
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So I went onstage and recited those lyrics and the reaction of the audience was amazing.
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The reality star joined the group onstage and proudly, confidently showed off that moneymaker!
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But the easygoingness vanishes onstage, where Ryu works his instruments with boyish energy and inimitable virtuosity.
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Yes, she keeps you on your toes, what with that ever changing hairstyling, onstage handjobs, terrible films, obnoxious husbands, pseudo lesbic posturing and always updated dance pop trash
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It was clear that Zellweger hadn't heard of the filmmaker until she was asked to hand him the award onstage, although she did learn to pronounce his name haltingly, in her best starlet's voice.
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It is a more limpid and beautiful piece of music than you might expect from a band known for live performances that regularly culminate in unpredictable, slightly disturbing onstage violence.
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The "ordinary woman who was called onstage at an extraordinary time," as she wrote of herself, Betty Ford was last in the spotlight after her husband of 58 years died Dec. 26, 2006, also at 93.
Betty Ford: A beacon for women, addicts
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To this reporter, it is a matter of apples and oranges - both women have sensational figures; both women are radiant onstage.
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With his floppy haircut, tight T-shirt and lairy onstage swagger, you get the feeling that if he wasn't onstage he'd be on the lash with his mates, chucking kebabs about in the street, and wolf-whistling at girls.
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After the angel appears, they have to hand off its wings to a stagehand and run around to the wings to get onstage for the next dance.
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He could often be found sitting cross-legged onstage, using just his guitar, his beat-boxing skills and a battery of effects pedals to concoct phantasmal full bands.
Rocking the Mic
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She was intensely shy, but onstage she became the most uninhibited person in the room.
