: a row of lights set across the front of a stage floor
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: the stage as a profession
the lure of the footlights
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebIn front, under the footlights, is the orchestra pit, with stairway to musician’s dressing and locker rooms under the stage.San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022 Fountain Theatre discussed the ruling across the footlights, right in the middle of a live show. Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2022 Marianne Elliott, and the understudies and COVID safety teams who've kept the footlights on in an uncertain time. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 June 2022 With the footlights now illuminated once more, has there been any true transformation? Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 31 May 2022 My last chance to tread the boards had fizzled, the footlights shut down, and why not? Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022 Elsewhere are 11 bedrooms, 8.5 bathrooms, a grand salon, library and theater with original footlights and a bar. Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022 Last winter, stage manager and producer Cody Renard Richard founded a scholarship for students of color interested in careers beyond the footlights. Lee Seymour, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021 But, once grown, the young woman, April Darling (Joan Peers), is tempted by the footlights—and by romance. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021 See More