How To Use Downstage In A Sentence
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Ghostly singing and piano riffs are heard from time to time; scenes end with Hedda downstage center staring at the audience, sometimes followed by her hideous cackle.
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The major characters interact further downstage, perhaps even on the small forestage, with the party serving as a background to them.
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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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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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I balled up my clothes, dropped them in the corner, and walked downstage.
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Whenever the action moved downstage, close to the audience, the production sang.
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the actors moved further and further downstage
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An unseen director appeared to be propelling her downstage left, towards her predecessor.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Let the lead performers stay downstage facing the audience, tell the chorus to stand still, don't try anything clever and just get on with the singing.
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Opening as described, the lights came up to reveal los chicos in all their flamenco regalia, backed by singers and guitarists downstage.
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Suddenly, as if on cue, he straightened his shoulders and walked downstage to greet his public.
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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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The news blared out on the television set that occupied and lit up the downstage area.
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Dancers popped and rocked downstage; two in-line skaters rocketed back and forth on the ramp, creating a dynamic backdrop.
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Candles are ritually placed on a downstage log.
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He waves me off as I start to help him downstage for his big finale—”Maketh Someone Happie”—a schmalzy tune, sure, but one that allows him to leave the stage without a dry eye or a full wallet in the house.
At the Juvenile Bubonic Plague Telethon
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Lydia moved downstage center, smiled at the piano player, then began her well-rehearsed song.
LEO: STAGE FRIGHT
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Rational Review
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Left downstage was a motley gang of people - at least eleven.
ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
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The downstage scene is depicted as a common ground where the actors interact and live out there lives outside of the privacy of their own homes.
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`The Bishop's moving downstage coruscating like a Christmas tree!
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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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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We get two major flashbacks while he freezes on a small platform downstage left.
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`The Bishop's moving downstage coruscating like a Christmas tree!
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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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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The Thai performers are experienced troupers who know how to lip-sync to Chinese songs and they would go downstage to mingle with the audience, such as sitting down on the laps of the male audience members.
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The set of her head at downstage left and the slight angle of the jaw conveyed queenliness and deadly resolve.
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Fine when you were jumping downstage, but not so good when jumping upstage!
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Dancers popped and rocked downstage; two in-line skaters rocketed back and forth on the ramp, creating a dynamic backdrop.
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Everything seemed to need to be further downstage, the peasants and friends needed to surround the principals more, but this clearly felt odd to the dancers.
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As Kulick would have it, Leontes collapses prone downstage left, and an attendant nonsensically tosses a bearskin over him.
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A blue scrim downstage tears open dramatically as the first piece begins, and stark black beams divide the stage like some urban forest.
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The figure in the front chair downstage left fell face downward.
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A downstage screen, dropped at intervals during the evening, is almost an extra performer, a ‘choral’ auxiliary, helping to glue the parts together.
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So it is dismaying to see the Wingfields, in the ill-conceived and clumsy set design you get in David Leveaux's new staging, inhabiting an airy, spa - cious, rather comfortable-looking apartment — something you might find in one of the postwar, white-brick buildings omnipresent on the Upper East Side, with a big, new sofa downstage center around which, alas, Leveaux tends to clump his actors.
Victims on Broadway
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His Restoration stage, complete with downstage doors, proscenium and revolving flats is effective and simply adorned with a few choice pieces of furniture along with blue and white accents.
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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.
