178 Looking at words to do with the theatre

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• The audience really loved the new musical,
• as they showed by their loud applause at the end.
• The dress rehearsal was terrible. Several of the actors forgot their lines, one or two dancers fell over and there was a problem with the lighting. Let's hope the play's a lot better when it opens on
• Not many of the critics liked the new Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical.
• In fact, most of them gave it a terrible review .
• Nowadays we refer to an actor as someone who performs on the stage, on television or in films, irrespective of whether they're a man or a woman.
• Two of the most famous British playwrights are Tom Stoppard and Harold Pinter.
• If you can't get to see the play in the evening, then you can always go to a matinée or afternoon performance.
• She told us that she was once an understudy to Maggie Smith, but no one believed her.
• We wanted to sit in the circle, but there weren't any tickets left. So we had to sit in the stalls instead.
• After the final performance of War Horse, the director threw a party for the whole cast .
• We waited for our friends in the foyer ...
• ... before going into the auditorium .
• The audience became very quiet as the lights dimmed and the curtain went up.
• Before actors go on stage, they often wait in the wings that is, the area on either side of the stage which is hidden from the audience.
• We picked up the tickets we had ordered on the Internet at the theatre box office .

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