The table in front hangs out over the sidewalk, with a kind of proscenium above it, and passing Brooklynites couldn't help but stare: Oh yeah, that guy, the big, scary one. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
I now pull the puppet-strings in this proscenium stage. From Wordnik.com. [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference
The commander was seated on a chair, on the proscenium. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
On my right, a raised Gatsby pool with a baroque proscenium. From Wordnik.com. [Art Fairs to Remember] Reference
There is never any curtain in front of "the arch" or proscenium. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
He lived inside his head, in the proscenium of his own imagination. From Wordnik.com. [The Book On Reagan] Reference
"The young lady in the proscenium box, I will wager," said Lenaieff. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In one of the proscenium boxes sat the Duchesse de Montgeron with the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This party occupied the upper proscenium box on the right of the stage. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
In the proscenium boxes were the wife of the Austrian Ambassador and the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Above the proscenium is an ellipse, exhibiting the Australian coat of arms. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
Cautiously, he walked down one of the aisles that led toward the proscenium. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness of the Light] Reference
Across the length of the theatre two proscenium-arch stages face each other. From Wordnik.com. [Earthquakes in London; The Good Soldier; FIB] Reference
The ceiling of the stage to be at least twice as high as the proscenium arch. From Wordnik.com. [Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act] Reference
Finally the chair settled onto the proscenium, but the Overseer did not move. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness of the Light] Reference
The camera is basically the audience in the proscenium, you know what I mean?. From Wordnik.com. [Backstage With Broadway Legend Patti LuPone] Reference
The proscenium arch of the stage makes the frame for the pictures on the stage. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
Many mothers object to their daughters being seen at the theater in a proscenium box. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference
A great red plush curtain parted in the center and drew in graceful folds to the edges of the proscenium. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
A loop of fringe dangled from the top of the proscenium and this was all that could be seen of the curtain. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
It's the reason I locked things behind glass — it was to create a proscenium, to slow the experience down. From Wordnik.com. [The Taste-Maker] Reference
The orchestra was sunk below the level of the stage, the proscenium painted to represent columns and entablature. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
The first proscenium arch is generally agreed to be the one in Parma, Italy, in the Teatro Farnese, built in 1618. From Wordnik.com. [Gerald Sindell: The Universal Rules of Framing Part II: What Does The Proscenium Frame?] Reference
As soon as the picture-frame proscenium was adopted, the audience demanded a picture to be placed within the frame. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
One large box, the first proscenium loge on the right, was still unoccupied when the curtain rose on the second act. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The New Mexico delegation occupied a proscenium box but Humphrey wasn't prominent enough there to suit his delegation. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of The American Legion] Reference
One thing, in any event, is certain: it was not Washington that became the real proscenium for Vincent Foster's tragedy. From Wordnik.com. ['An Interior Pain That Is All But Indescribable'] Reference
It was in the little opening between the proscenium and the curtain that the man in evening dress unexpectedly appeared. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
It all has the feel of a toy theatre but with magical departures, such as a proscenium created by a leafy canopy of trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival] Reference
Simon Higlett's set, with its see-through screens and huge proscenium arch, suggests the Tyrone home as a stage for ghosts. From Wordnik.com. [Theater Review: 'Long Day's Journey Into Night'] Reference
Surprisingly, she seems comfortable in the close proximity, with no proscenium arch to protect her from the unwashed masses. From Wordnik.com. [Stritch at Carlyle: 80 and Singin'] Reference
The piece was a defense of the proscenium stage against those who were blaming the failures of American theatre on the fourth wall. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Brustein: Confronting Huntington] Reference
He was surprised, upon entering, to discover a vast amphitheater, with hundreds upon hundreds of seats facing a vast, darkened proscenium. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness of the Light] Reference
Some act it before the altar or beneath the proscenium arch; some speak it, now in Cassandra-tones, now comfortably like shepherds of frail sheep. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
But the old Jinx proceeded to put his No. 3 seal on de Reszke's voice that year, and he and the opera were heard from no more under the proscenium arch. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison] Reference
Gallery, originally built to hold the Harleian Manuscripts, and divided by columns into three parts, making an admirable theatre and a handsome proscenium. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
Where circumstances admit, the directions we give elsewhere as to the construction of a stage and proscenium for private theatricals may be followed with advantage. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference
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