How To Use Upstage In A Sentence
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With stage shutters open to reveal a large drawing-room extending upstage, the partygoers are grouped around different card tables and involved in their card games.
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he was upstage with strangers
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Give them a chance to make an exhibition of themselves and these two never miss the opportunity, as they did while attempting to upstage the president's address to Parliament.
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Graham relished the opportunity to upstage Chelsea and found in the talented Russell the width to dominate the game from midfield.
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French commentators, on the other hand, are suggesting that Sarkozy's real aim in "endorsing" Blair was to upstage the Socialist opposition before municipal polls rather than commit Paris to backing Blair for the EU job, for which he has also dubbed Juncker pictured an obvious candidate.
It was never going to happen
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Men will shelter her, and explain things to her, and cover up for her mistakes; in the worst cases — like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which is a carnival of disaster on a gender front as well as a racial one — her every action will be upstaged by those of a half-grown boy, thus establishing that a male of any age will always be more useful than a woman.
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The ubiquitous pyramid is poorly used, cramping the main action in an unlit area upstage.
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I was very cross that she had upstaged the bride.
The Sun
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And other celebs have upstaged brides too.
The Sun
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But you don't want to upstage the bride.
Times, Sunday Times
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Judd's sets consisted of green and blue upstage drops that moved through a number of positions but did not further encroach on the open space of the stage.
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His upstage entry, like that of both the other principals downstage, is so weak as to have been planned.
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There have been times when we played together and I upstaged my father.
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WHITFIELD: Do you think the network asked him or encouraged him to joke about this so as to kind of upstage the rumors?
CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2010
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While the front of the stage was visible, upstage was hidden behind patched curtains of a faded blue with gold trim.
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For the first time the black market has been upstaged-and, ironically, brought into the official fold.
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The Upstagers present the light-hearted story of the American showman on July 15-19 at King's Hall.
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His friend and fifth-grade classmate at Stuart Hall School for Boys, Garren Mitchell, exuded confidence as he correctly spelled the word "taj," not even waiting to hear the judge's response before walking back to his spot upstage.
Undefined
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For this stellar cast to be upstaged by the scenery must be galling.
Times, Sunday Times
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What do you do when you’re the morbidly obese fake winner of a reality show, and you’re sick and tired of being upstaged in your seemingly inexistant music videos by the skinny struggling dancers grinding all up in your grill?
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The actor moved upstage away from the audience.
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For the first time the black market has been upstaged-and, ironically, brought into the official fold.
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she crossed to the upstage chair forcing the lead to turn his back to the audience
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Most supporting bands tend to be youngsters, and rarely upstage the star.
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The odds at present on the final outcome must be that there will be a dramatic ending with Microsoft upstaged: exeunt WinCo left, and AppCo right.
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For this stellar cast to be upstaged by the scenery must be galling.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sounds of a music box shifted into gusting wind as one group of dancers exited upstage while another solemnly entered.
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And I expect he will have better options than Hillary to choose from ....... her attempt to "upstage" him last night should remove her from serious consideration as the VP. noemi of reason, latina for obama!
Kennedy joins Obama VP search team
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As the audience entered the stage was set up as a shabby music room: there was a straight-backed piano upstage right and various basic wooden chairs arranged with music stands.
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The picture was viewed more than 2m times and provoked a wave of sympathy for the unknown but obviously upstaged bride.
Times, Sunday Times
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Faith healer Kathryn Kuhlman, based on a Missouri-born evangelist from the 1960s - re-appropriated/inhabited by Justin Bond - sits perfectly poised upstage on her throne flanked by iridescent white lions.
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Some people say the NDM upstaged us but we're not concerned about these things.
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His set was ingenious: An upstage curtain glided laterally, exposing a background that changed color and shape as dancers entered and exited in silhouette.
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Taylor's set employs a ballet bar set diagonally upstage from down stage right.
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If at times she was perplexingly cool, -- or "upstage," as he called it, -- he flattered himself that he knew women too well to be discouraged by these purely feminine manifestations.
Quill's Window
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Glassner, with her charmingly unkempt curls, crocheted dress, and Brooklyn ZIP code, has already upstaged the other fashion editors, whose dramatic hair (peroxide blonde, flat-ironed) and outfits (stilettos, leather) seemed almost boringly predictable.
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Cibber had drifted upstage, off the playing apron and past the proscenium arch.
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But Depp upstages everyone, getting big laughs every time he comes on - funnier even than his excellent turn in Pirates of the Caribbean - and unbalancing the movie.
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Though she gave a sharp, sassy performance, she was upstaged by the ample curves of Marilyn Monroe.
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Everyone is upstaged by Eileen Atkins as wealthy Miss Matilda Crawley, the cantankerous dame who sponsors Becky's social ascent.
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Graham relished the opportunity to upstage Chelsea and found in the talented Russell the width to dominate the game from midfield.
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It is so heavily plot-driven, and you do feel you're upstaged by the props.
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Here we find some of the remixes that upstaged the originals, as well as alternate mixes of tracks that many never heard.
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While the front of the stage was visible, upstage was hidden behind patched curtains of a faded blue with gold trim.
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Complete with all the amenities you'd find in an office, desk, chairs, computers, water fountain; you could also see a second office through the door upstage.
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They part to reveal a man hanging upside down from a wall upstage, and a woman, standing in a spotlight down stage, reaching out to him.
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However, he was slightly upstaged by the huge cheer that greeted the first shaft of sunlight to hit Centre Court.
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He had a younger brother who always publicly upstaged him.
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For once, Kerry's queens of fashion were upstaged by a queen from another land - but they didn't seem to mind.
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The dancers marched upstage and down in front of the upstage screen.
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He dresses so cool, he has to be careful not to upstage the bride.
The Sun
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If Mlinko is going to suggest that there might, in fact, exist a set of essentialized relationships between styles of writing and the gender of bodies, then I fail to see how I can easily list women whom I might wish to emulate or upstage without encroaching upon stylistic territory that some feminists might staunchly demarcate as uniquely their own.
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These ranged from startlingly androgynous, man-tailored jackets and breeches to mile-high pouf coiffures decorated with intricate landscapes and military battle-scenes, and from sweeping, jewel-encrusted gowns with which she upstaged her husband at public appearances to risqué peasant-girl shifts that she sported at her private country retreat.
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And other celebs have upstaged brides too.
The Sun
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As much as I love it, I find it really does kind of upstage the other flavors in some cookies.
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Even honesty and truth have been upstaged by that awful concept, 'post-truth' (or truthiness, to use its pet name).
Times, Sunday Times
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There were heavy downpours even before Scotland's biggest rock and pop festival kicked off and the rain threatened to upstage the performers.
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Even those hardcore Fanatics, camped out at Tent City in Durban, were becoming toey yesterday at the prospect of being upstaged by the Kiwis at the greatest game on turf," said the
New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
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Upstage and right of centre, Robert Morris stands with his back to the audience.
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I went behind the upstage curtain, a place I had never been.
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Her power lay in her beauty and she used it as a weapon, dressing to please, to tease and even, on one mischievous occasion, to upstage her husband.
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They part to reveal a man hanging upside down from a wall upstage, and a woman, standing in a spotlight down stage, reaching out to him.
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They're much too upstage for us these days.
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The moment passed and the four resumed their explorations, eventually exiting upstage.
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In the end it proved to be, but only after the Londoners had threatened to spoil the party and upstage the return of the prodigal son.
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With a sigh, she sat down on the brown, wooden stairs that led upstage.
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A life-size living room contrasts nicely with a miniature house, a full-size segment of a ship downstage with the entire ship in miniature upstage.
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Finally, upstage right a cluster of small, close-set houses like a typical Mediterranean village represents Ephesus.
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Jim Chambers was brill, but that could change if we started trying to upstage him.
SOMEBODY
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When the dog entered the stage, he upstaged the actress
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The dandyish and photogenic candidate regularly upstaged most of the other contenders in the name of art.
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The actor moved upstage away from the audience.
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Kit Conner enters upstage left and crosses to downstage right and sits down on the table with feet on chair.
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Rebecca later denied claims that the star had attempted to upstage her.
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Bart attempts to upstage Lisa when the pair co-host a children's news program.
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Do people try to upstage the bride and turn up in purple satin wedding dresses?
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Some people say the they upstaged us but we're not concerned about these things.
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But you don't want to upstage the bride.
Times, Sunday Times
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Caroline looked beautiful and stole the show but she was nearly upstaged by the hat worn by her future mother-in-law Kate Loughran.
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The actors upstage each other, and sometimes abandon the stage altogether, as part of this approach.
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But it's often impossible to stop yourself from dreaming about your destination wedding in Turks & Caicos where Rihanna performs but doesn't upstage your Reem Acra dress.
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A half-dozen men play dice games while a woman upstage pours and serves their tea.
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Fine when you were jumping downstage, but not so good when jumping upstage!
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What I question is Zeffirelli's decision to set the action in what looks like a mix of Art Deco hotel lobby and theatre foyer, with a fake audience on stage and characters making upstage entrances through a false arch.
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Never again can a Prime Minister allow his number two to upstage him like that.
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He dresses so cool, he has to be careful not to upstage the bride.
The Sun
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Obama obviously knows it too ... he said yesterday, he believe Hillary would be a great surrogate for him and when asked about Bill he said he said he was sure he would not want to 'upstage' his wife at the unity rally on Friday.
Election Central Morning Roundup
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In fact, he's upstaged the headliner a few times.
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Phelps is threatening to even upstage Aussie sensation Ian Thorpe and their battle in the 200m freestyle promises to be one of the great highlights of the Games.
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It is the final irony of a celebrity life to be upstaged by a grander cortège.
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He tried to upstage his boss at the meeting.
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Not to be upstaged by a nutcase, one of the posse whupped out his own roscoe and shot Eddie again.
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Neil Warmington's set, with its upstage floral aquarium and gleaming patch of AstroTurf, also evokes a world that is garishly strange without lapsing into the clichés of fuliginous futurism.
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We saw a water puppet show in Hanoi - a puppet show in which puppeteers stood in stomach-deep water behind a screen, manipulating puppets that skipped and skimmed on the surface of the water upstage.
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He had a younger brother who always publicly upstaged him.
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Personally, I thought he was probably an attention seeker attempting to upstage me.
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The room fell into dead silence as it was clear no one had the money to upstage his bid.
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Actors find little pleasure in being upstaged.
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Dominating the upstage wall is a crude collage of dust-weathered letters that provides a screen on which slides are projected.
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I was very cross that she had upstaged the bride.
The Sun
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The set designed by Rosas consisted of gauzy drapery of brilliant yellow hung in scallops across the center stage, while a somber gray archway loomed behind it upstage center.
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He stands and using his cane starts to exit upstage.
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The final design emphasizes its simplicity, heavily relying on upstage lighting technique and set movement.
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Navy renegades upstaged it with a buccaneering March landing on South Georgia, in direct contravention of orders.
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It's an unwritten rule of weddings that you don't upstage the bride on her big day.
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No spectacle could upstage the old soldiers, their recollections filled not with tales of their own part in the liberation, but with tributes to their comrades who fought and fell alongside them.
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The picture was viewed more than 2m times and provoked a wave of sympathy for the unknown but obviously upstaged bride.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most supporting bands tend to be youngsters, and rarely upstage the star.
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the dancers were directed to move upstage
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Upstage and right of centre, Robert Morris stands with his back to the audience.
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Literally ripping through a scrim upstage, she attacks Lisa, wrestling her to the floor.
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The work begins with first one, then another of the dancers, wearing dark business suits and carrying metal briefcases, coming onstage, then moving in repetitive phalanx formations, upstage to down.
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A big "telescreen" upstage is sufficient on the effectively utilitarian and spare set.
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The worthy fellow travels with heavy heart all the way to Bohemia, there to abandon the babe, whereupon he exits upstage right.
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The tradition of having a new year's ball in Kerry was upstaged this year by the new year's bawls that filled the corridors of Tralee General Hospital's maternity unit on the first day of January.
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I spend all afternoon picking out the clothes to wear for a night out on the town with the ladies, and I get upstaged by some guy dressed like Popeye, a Manhattan man who only identified himself as Austin grumbled as he surveyed the servicemen crowded into a neighborhood bar.
Archive 2008-05-01
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The final design emphasizes its simplicity, heavily relying on upstage lighting technique and set movement.
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It's not meant to upstage the turkey and trimmings.
Times, Sunday Times
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No one must be different from himself in voice, clothes, manners, recreations, choice of food: Here is someone who speaks English rather more clearly and euphoniously than I — it must be a vile, upstage, la-di-da affectation.
Screwtape on Democracy | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
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No one must be different from himself in voice, clothes, manners, recreations, choice of food: Here is someone who speaks English rather more clearly and euphoniously than I — it must be a vile, upstage, la-di-da affectation.
Screwtape on Democracy | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
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Yes, as part of her historic final season hosting her syndicated daytime talk show, Oprah intends to be the first TV star to share a stage with heartbreakingly cute animals - and not be upstaged.
Regis, like Oprah, signs off
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Rihanna has reportedly kicked Nicki Minaj off her tour because she was furious that the rapper would "upstage" her performance.
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They slowly moved from upstage left into the centre.
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Most supporting bands tend to be youngsters, and rarely upstage the star.
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But what one remembers is the the mournful downstage revelry, while upstage a fleshy, ageing chanteuse is mimetically seduced by the MC.