footlight

the umbra beyond the footlights;

to be in the footlight

to step into the footlight

to bask in the footlight

to shine in the footlight

to perform under the footlight

to make a debut in the footlight

to stand under the footlight

The foreground, to the footlights, was covered with emerald green cloth.

A few moments afterwards the footlights flared up and the curtain rose on the third act.

Good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

I can still feel myself standing on that stage, blushing furiously and gazing over the footlights to see my father’s grin as he applauded loudly.

When she came to know writers it was like adventuring upon a stage which till then she had known only from the other side of the footlights.

Why not imagine every time you ring a door-bell that you are an actor before the footlights and that there's an audience out there looking at you.

The dancer, dazzling behind the footlights, may in ordinary living be so dull, so unkind, so fractious, that her smooth limbs and lovely face are lost in the immediacy of her spiritual unloveliness.

Abandoning his position, clearing the footlights without the aid of his wings, and, clambering up to the right–hand gallery, he fell at the feet of one of the spectators, crying, " Ah, my master! my master" !

Behind footlights it would have been irresistible, but somehow it did not touch the one spectator, though she had neither time nor skill to discover why. For all their ardor the words did not ring quite true.