footlights

Noun

Meaning

theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors

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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. Mae West

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter. Ivor Novello

I used to say Edinburgh was a beautiful actress with no talent. I thought it was just like a shortbread tin. I think that's because I did six Festivals in a row there, and I never saw the real Edinburgh, just a lot of deeply annoying Cambridge Footlights kids wanting to be actresses. Michelle Gomez

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra. Samuel Butler (novelist)

Afterward, Edwin led the younger Booth to the theatre's footlights and said to the audience, "I think he's done well, don't you?" Source: Internet

Career Pre-Python Cleese was a scriptwriter, as well as a cast member, for the 1963 Footlights Revue A Clump of Plinths. Source: Internet

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