Word: curtained
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...audience settled into their seats, I stood tensely offstage. My instructions were to wait for a signal, and then walk onstage in full view of everyone and lie down in front of a couch. After this, the action would begin and I was not to move until the curtain call...
...pretty uneventful. The bleeding soon stopped, and I realized that what in my initial panic I had thought to be a shattered lower jaw was in fact only a superficial scrape. I was kicked once or twice and stepped on, and had my hair pulled three times before the curtain call, but I bore it all with equanimity. The worst was over...
...concert, a three-hour musical powerplay spanning Costello's entire songwriting career, drew four curtain calls from an audience on its feet...
...remarks, "It's a very user-unfriendly house." Gorshin, who is perennially down, declares, "It's just one of those nights when nothing goes right. So I guess I'll go home and blow my brains out." The audience, of course, thinks everything is going fine, and at the curtain it rewards the cast with warm approval...
...little more than two hours from the curtain, Burns slams shut the back door of a truck and drives home the lock in a single move. "We gone," he shouts. It is time to get back on the bus. Bloomington, Ind., lies just a few hours ahead...