Sentence examples for comic stage from inspiring English sources

"And I say, 'Thank you,' " again using the comic stage whisper.

Indeed, plays written in prose dialogue were at one time comparatively rare, and then associated essentially with the comic stage.

Perhaps the greatest of all comic stage creations, he fulfills the role of the clown by calling society and all its received opinions into question.

But as this updated staging of "Pèlerins" proved, he was also a composer of sparkling, vital and meltingly lyrical music for the comic stage.

IN the second act of "Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps," the comic stage adaptation of the classic film, two mackintoshed villains interrogate the McGarrigles, a Scottish innkeeper and his wife.

Mr. Lane, our greatest comic stage star, provides a counterpoint in "The Nance," a play about a burlesque star from the 1930s whose dreary personal life is juxtaposed with his energetic, comic turn as a stock character rooted in gay stereotypes.

He will be playing on one of the world's biggest comic stages.

But there was so much banter and comic staging during these ensembles that the young audience listened and laughed anyway.

Hitchcock signed a contract with Warner Brothers, and his first film there, the comic thriller Stage Fright (1950), was one of his lighter works.

"I have relatives just like that," said Mr. Monegan, who has just written "Defiantly Fabulous," a comic, gay, stage version of the movie "The Defiant Ones".

Since being introduced by the Axis tour and Mr. Abu-Wardeh's team, a stand-up culture featuring a quick-witted comic on stage with a microphone, slowly evolved and gave rise to the variety now seen in the region today, including political satire.