aisle
/ˈaɪəɫ/, /ˈaɪɫ/
nouna narrow passage in a theater, train, aircraft, etc. that separates rows of seats
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1. Meat aisles were empty across supermarkets around the country,.
2. Anyway, aisle seat isn’t only about leg room.
3. So skip that aisle altogether.
4. So you crossed the aisles politically there.
5. Many planes don't have aisle 13.
auditorium
/ˌɔdəˈtɔɹiəm/
nounthe area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits
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1. Ronald Reagan did the auditorium speech.
2. And that auditorium at the other end is somebody else's.
3. The auditorium was empty.
4. At 2:15, this auditorium will reopen.
5. And we filled the auditorium.
backcloth
/bˈækklɔθ/
nouna piece of cloth that is painted, hung at the rear of a stage as part of the scenery
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backdrop
/ˈbækˌdɹɑp/
nouna piece of painted cloth that is hung at the back of a theater stage as part of the scenery
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1. That backdrop is very important.
2. The ruins on top of Weathertop create the backdrop for one of Frodo's most harrowing adventures.
3. Love that backdrop.
4. - I like the backdrop.
5. We love our backdrop.
backstage
/ˈbækˈsteɪdʒ/
nounthe part of a theater that is out of the audience's sight where performers can change their clothes
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1. Going backstage.
2. -I scared Jimmy backstage.
3. have 300 puppies backstage.
4. -Okay, my backstage has many pictures of me.
5. The three scenes will each take place backstage before a product launch.
balcony
/ˈbæɫkəni/
nounan upper floor in a theater or cinema where there are seats for the audience
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1. We built the balcony.
2. My place has a balcony.
3. Balcony with a TV watching area and a bar.
4. It has balconies.
5. It has four balconies.
bill
/ˈbɪɫ/
nounthe list of entertainment programs or performers at a concert, theater, etc.
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1. Jackson thought that the Bank would use its money to oppose his reelection in 1836, so he vetoed that bill.
2. Still payed bills.
3. Sadly my side hustle is just billing more hours.
4. Legislators are writing bills.
5. They pay bills.
circle
/ˈsɝkəɫ/
nouna curved upper floor in a theater or opera house where there are seats for the audience
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1. There are long, white, empty beaches here and the 5,000-year-old stone circle at Callanish.
2. Soldiers circle her eyes with a red pencil.
3. The circle of life is circling our lives, right now.
4. The plane circled the raft.
5. Meanwhile, several players in the entertainment industry also circled the wagons around the president's daughter.
curtain
/ˈkɝtən/
nouna thick heavy piece of cloth that is hung in front of a stage in a theater and is raised or pulled aside when a performance begins
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1. She even bought curtains there.
2. Bomb blast curtains covered my windows.
3. Curtains accumulate a ton of germs.
4. Now we have curtains.
5. Curtains are up there.
downstage
/ˈdaʊnˌsteɪdʒ/
nounthe anterior part of a stage in theater that is in the audience's sight
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1. [audience laughing] - So Catherine was downstage and at one point, I turned to her like this.
2. Speaking about her new gig, which came with a start date of November 1, 2018, Preuss gushed, "I'm invigorated by Downstage's fresh approach in creating excellent theatre that engages Calgary's community in innovative ways, while addressing important social issues."
dressing room
/dɹˈɛsɪŋ ɹˈuːm/
nouna room where actors can change costumes or prepare for their performance
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1. Our dressing rooms are Ramin, me, Derek.
2. Beyond that is a dressing room.
3. This is the dressing room.
4. Here's another dressing room.
5. Their dressing room must have.
drop curtain
/dɹˈɑːp kˈɜːtən/
nouna curtain or a painted piece of cloth that can be lowered and raised designed for the stage
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entr'acte
/ɛntɹˈækti/
nounthe interval between two acts of a theatrical performance
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fleapit
/flˈiːpɪt/
nouna neglected and dirty cinema or theater
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footlight
/ˈfʊtˌɫaɪts/
nouna type of stage lighting placed at floor level to illuminate the performers from below, often used in dance performances
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1. And Rouben Mamoulian, the director, and Agnes de Mille had the whole cast come down to the footlights in a kind of flying wedge.
2. And then there's solar powered footlights that light up the steps all night long.
3. Suddenly, what we're finding with these concerts, away from the stage, away from the footlights, out of the tuxedo tails, the musicians become the conduit for delivering the tremendous therapeutic benefits of music on the brain to an audience that would never have access to this room, would never have access to the kind of music that we make.
foyer
/ˈfɔɪɝ/
nouna large space at the entrance of a hotel or theater where people can wait or meet
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1. - Is this a foyer?
2. The third courtyard is the roofed foyer, the entrance hall for visitors.
3. A patient advocacy group did a foyer request for nursing home data.
4. This is the foyer area.
5. My foyer is about two feet by two feet.
gallery
/ˈɡæɫɝi/
nouna narrow balcony at the highest part of a theater hall where people are accommodated, with cheap seats
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1. Crowds filled galleries of the House long before the noon opening of the session.
2. Spider-Man rogues gallery was so cool.
3. Many galleries have unposted hours.
4. - Clear the gallery.
5. Gallery view gives you the files at the bottom.
gangway
/ɡˈæŋweɪ/
nouna passage between rows of seats in an auditorium, aircraft, etc.
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1. Bombed out bridges like this one in Germany needed a sturdier fix than a gangway.
2. Now don't look closely because there's no metal on that gangway
3. Anyone who is coughing or has a fever, they will have to wear a Surgical Mask and use a separate GANGWAY.
4. In the rooms, if the Book was dropped, the floor raised it mechanically, but the gangway to the air-ship was not so prepared, and the sacred volume lay motionless.
green room
/ɡɹˈiːn ɹˈuːm/
nouna room in a theater, a studio, etc. in which performers can relax while not performing
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1. She's in the green room.
2. We used our Google massage room as an impromptu green room.
3. I was leaving the green room.
4. Like this is your green room.
5. This is a really nice green room.
house
/ˈhaʊs/
nounthe area in which the audience sits while a movie, concert or theater is performed
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1. Their new house had a garden, but the garden was very small.
2. 'Why don't we go to a warm room in my house for a talk then?
3. There's a party at my house tonight.
4. If the President vetoes a law, Congress, with a two thirds vote in both houses, can override the veto.
5. Its 18 levels could house 20,000 people!
mezzanine
/ˈmɛzəˌnin/
nounthe first floor above the ground floor in a theater where there are seats for the audience
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1. And managers got private offices on a mezzanine.
2. They added these very low mezzanines.
3. So the mezzanine structure is a fairly straightforward concept.
4. This is the mezzanine.
5. This is the mezzanine?
orchestra
/ˈɔɹkəstɹə/
nounthe seats that are located near the stage in a theater
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1. What's the orchestra doing?
2. What's the orchestra doing?
3. The orchestra is good news for the people of Iraq.
4. Otherwise, you get all-male orchestras.
5. The orchestra exists since 18 years now.
orchestra pit
/ˈɔːɹkɛstɹə pˈɪt/
nounthe place in front of the stage, which is slightly lower, where an orchestra sits and performs for an opera, ballet, etc.
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1. no they kick them into the orchestra pit
2. He wanted a little more bombast, so he increased the size of the orchestra pit so he could get more low-end instruments in there.
3. Let me show you here, okay here's the before orchestra pit, and then you go into the orchestra pit and you're about here, and then you go up second row
4. Let me show you here, okay here's the before orchestra pit, and then you go into the orchestra pit and you're about here, and then you go up second row
5. When she was 15, she fell into the orchestra pit, while she was in a musical, and dislocated her arm.
ovation
/oʊˈveɪʃən/
nounan enthusiastic expression of approval by the audience, typically through clapping
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1. Standing ovation.
2. Standing ovation!
3. Standing ovation!
4. Standing ovation.
5. Standing ovation.
playbill
/plˈeɪbɪl/
nouna list of plays that are performed in a theater
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1. I never thought my credit in a playbill on Broadway would actually be Pie Consultant, but it has been and it is, and it's been life-changing.
2. -But I noticed as I was holding up the playbill, you didn't have it here.
3. In 2007, she took on the role of Celie in The Color Purple, making her the first Idol winner to star on Broadway, according to Playbill.
4. Her credits include the musical Vanities in 2008, which was scheduled for a Broadway run the following year but, according to Playbill, was postponed due to financial difficulties.
5. According to Playbill, she played Belle from the beginning of April to the end of July in 2007.
prop
/ˈpɹɑp/
nounany object used by actors in the performance of a movie or play
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1. The bag props the fan together with the Velcro.
2. -Wow, you guys have props!
3. Props work, too.
4. - I love props.
5. Steal props?
proscenium
/pɹəsˈiːniəm/
nounthe wall separating the audience and the stage in a theater hall, including the arch on its top
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1. It has a proscenium arch and it has a vanishing point.
2. The proscenium line can also disappear.
3. Most halls come straight down into a proscenium.
4. When you're on Broadway, you cannot tear the proscenium down.
5. The proscenium can fly.
safety curtain
/sˈeɪfti kˈɜːtən/
nouna thick heavy curtain in front of a stage in a theater that could be lowered as a precaution in case of fire
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1. Though Temple frequently acted as characters far advanced beyond her age, there was no excuse for Greene's statement of "her admirers, middle-aged men and clergymen, respond to her dubious coquetry, to the sight of her well-shaped and desirable little body, packed with enormous vitality, only because the safety curtain of story and dialogue drops between their intelligence and their desire."
scenery
/ˈsinɝi/
nounthe painted hangings at the background and the accessories on a theater stage
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1. I see different sceneries.
2. With the establishment of the national parks, scenery became a new form of commercial value.
3. Scenery change.
4. - Enjoy the breathtaking scenery.
5. Change the scenery.
set
/ˈsɛt/
nouna stage where a play is performed or a location where a motion picture is recorded
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1. Many years ago, people used the sun to set their clocks.
2. You can do the workouts with any brand of equipment, and many of the workouts require just a set of dumbbells or no equipment at all.
3. Set realistic goals.
4. Set the mood.
5. Some nice historical video footage sets the stage for each individual challenge.
stage
/ˈsteɪdʒ/
nounan elevated area, especially in theaters, on which artists perform for the audience
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1. The staff of the orphanage stages an impromptu entertainment for the nurses and doctors.
2. Sanders staged a dramatic public negotiation with the Yankees.
3. The name of the CD is "Stages."
4. Levi-Strauss' famous book, The Raw and the Cooked, essentially stages this critique in and of itself.
5. A yacht-inspired design concept stages high-quality materials.
stage door
/stˈeɪdʒ dˈoːɹ/
nounan entrance to a theater that is designated for the use of the staff and actors
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1. I talk to a lot of kids, obviously, in the stage door.
2. Or stand outside the stage door.
3. Or just stand outside the stage door.
4. When I was in a Broadway musical early in my career, my dressing room was right next to the stage door.
5. We got stage door.
stage left
/stˈeɪdʒ lˈɛft/
nounthe left side of the stage from the point of view of an actor who is facing the audience
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1. But whenever you do that, it creates room for somebody else to enter stage left.
2. Usually we're providing our commentary from a perch stage left in Tercentenary Theater with a view much like the one you see beside me or behind me now, but this is just as exciting today.
3. So, I'm just gonna need this to exit stage left.
4. Once again, entrepreneurial black market salesmen enter, stage left.
5. He is exiting stage left in eight weeks.
stage right
/stˈeɪdʒ ɹˈaɪt/
nounthe right side of the stage from the point of view of an actor who is facing the audience
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1. Two of the ideas in planning stages right now involve the space-age versions of those things.
2. So it's like stage right?
3. There are many people on this stage right now.
4. - We're in pre-opening stages right now.
5. And he's coming on stage right now
stall
/ˈstɔɫ/
nounthe seats that are located near the stage in a theater
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1. Years of bureaucracy and tough immigration policies have stalled the process.
2. Years of bureaucracy and tough immigration policies have stalled the process.
3. Conor stalls!
4. Now stalling a manual transmission vehicle.
5. Stalled the vehicle again.
upper circle
/ˌʌpɚ sˈɜːkəl/
nounthe seats that are located on the second floor of a theater hall
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1. The thing that strikes me is, you know, a lot of people in Washington, as they become successful, they shed their old friends and move into upper circles.
upstage
/əpˈsteɪdʒ/
nounthe back part of the stage that is the most distant from the audience
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1. Upstage are a bunch of boxes containing objects neither of us have ever seen before.
2. Upstage are a bunch of boxes containing objects neither of us have seen before.
3. Upstage are nine mystery boxes containing objects no one has ever seen before.
4. Upstage are nine mystery boxes containing objects no one has ever seen before.
5. You're upstaging the real Statue of Liberty.
wardrobe
/ˈwɔɹˌdɹoʊb/
nounthe department in a theater or movie company that is in charge of the costumes of actors
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1. The wardrobe is in the house.
2. My wardrobe’s empty!
3. I have a wardrobe.
4. The wardrobe is almost complete.
5. The wardrobe is modern stylish.
wind machine
/wˈɪnd məʃˈiːn/
nouna machine that is used in a theater or movie to create artificial wind
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1. They put hundreds of wind machines in windy places.
2. A wind machine is a very tall pole.
3. And he has a big wind machine.
4. - We got a wind machine.
5. - We got a wind machine.
thrust stage
/θɹˈʌst stˈeɪdʒ/
nouna theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
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box office
/bˈɑːks ˈɑːfɪs/
nouna small place at a cinema, theater, etc. from which tickets are bought
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1. The movie, however, was a box office disappointment.
2. The film, however, failed at the box office.
3. That is box office mojo.
4. It broke all box office records.
5. The wildly popular film made nearly $300 million at the box office, according to Box Office Mojo.
wing
/ˈwɪŋ/
nounany of the sides of the stage in a theater that is not in the audience's sight
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1. Raptors had wings.
2. In truth, raptors, like birds today, had wings.
3. But this bird has wings.
4. -Fairies have wings.
5. Get wings.
amphitheater
/ˈæmfəθiˈeɪtɝ/
nouna sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater)
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1. The amphitheater is over here.
2. The amphitheater at Pompeii is earlier in date.
3. Tumultuous yelling filled the amphitheater.
4. It has a very well-preserved Roman amphitheater.
5. So the kids found an amphitheater.
catwalk
/ˈkætˌwɑk/, /ˈkætˌwɔk/
nounnarrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage or between parts of a building or along a bridge)
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1. From kindergarten to catwalks, here's the stunning transformation of Hailey Baldwin.
2. They strut down catwalks in Paris, party on yachts, and grace glossy magazine covers.
3. She even strutted down the catwalk for Kanye West’s fashion label, Yeezy.
4. The diaper wearers have to line up over here by Jessica for their catwalk.
5. Ooh, gorgeous-- do a catwalk.
gel
/ˈdʒɛɫ/
nouna thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
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1. They form this gel.
2. So I got some lock and twist gel.
3. The blue is a gel.
4. Extract the gel from the plant.
5. Keep gel liner away from the bottom.
houselights
/hˈaʊslaɪts/
nounthe lights that illuminate an audience area in a theater or performance space
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marquee
/mɑɹˈki/
nounpermanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc.
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1. Now the marquee above us was originally, of course, an analog marquee, and--
2. When you look back at that marquee?
3. It says color TV on the marquee outside.
4. - This is a marquee spot for a home like this.
5. Beyond the theater marquees, one of the biggest video game urban legends was brewing.
black box theater
/blˈæk bˈɑːks θˈiəɾɚ/
nouna simple, versatile performance space with black walls that can be set up in different ways for various types of shows
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surtitle
/sˈɜːɾaɪɾəl/
nountranslated words projected above or next to the stage on a screen in an opera or play
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apron
/ˈeɪpɹən/
nounthe part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)
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1. - I love your apron. -
2. We have aprons?
3. Check out my apron. -
4. The apron will cover the nipples.
5. Come on apron.
projection booth
/pɹədʒˈɛkʃən bˈuːθ/
nouna room in a movie theater or other venue where the projector and other equipment for showing films or videos are located
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concession stand
/kənsˈɛʃən stˈænd/
nouna small retail outlet or booth typically found in movie theaters, sports arenas, or amusement parks, where food, drinks, and other items are sold to patrons
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3D screen
/θɹˈiː dˈiː skɹˈiːn/
nouna display technology that allows viewers to see images or videos in three dimensions, giving the illusion of depth and creating a more immersive visual experience
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IMAX screen
/aɪ ˈɛm ɐ ˈɛks skɹˈiːn/
nouna giant, high-quality projection screen with advanced sound technology for an immersive viewing experience
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prompt corner
/pɹˈɑːmpt kˈɔːɹnɚ/
nouna designated backstage location in a theater where crew members communicate with performers during a live performance
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box set
/bˈɑːks sˈɛt/
nouna set design that creates the illusion of a complete interior room on stage, usually by building three walls with the fourth wall left open for the audience's view
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flat
/ˈfɫæt/
nounscenery made of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas, used as part of a stage setting
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1. -This bottle of champagne is flat!
2. 'This table is flat.'
3. The bottom is flat.
4. A flats or a wing? - Flats are, flats or, flats or a drum.
5. Lay the console flat