Sentence examples for farewell stage from inspiring English sources

His farewell stage appearance was as Hamlet in 1891 at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn.

To that he added a pioneering adventurousness that only Peggy Ashcroft could match: typically, he was the first of the theatrical knights to ally himself with the Royal Court by playing the broken-down vaudevillian, Archie Rice, in John Osborne's The Entertainer in 1957, and he made his farewell stage appearance as a militant Glaswegian trade unionist in Trevor Griffiths's The Party in 1973.

(Ochs means "ox" in German. Get it?) Much of the advance publicity for Robert Carsen's new production of the work at the Metropolitan Opera has centered on its Marschallin, Renée Fleming: Will this staging, which débuted on Thursday night, be the diva's farewell to staged opera, or won't it?

And so I bid you farewell, various stages upon which I have plied my craft.

Hosts and guests eventually exchange farewells and leave the stage - "It was your nice, average, desperate evening!" "Wasn't it all empty, ultimately?

Ms. Elias, who was riveting, assumed this would be her farewell to the stage.

At her farewell from the stage in New York in 1874, 25,000 fans gathered to pay her tribute.

Many theatergoers figured that Ms. Hagen's appearance in "Mrs. Klein" at the Stamford Center for the Arts in 1996 would be her farewell to the stage, but she went on.

She also sang in "The Days Before" at Lincoln Center in New York in 1999, a year before her formal farewell to the stage.

No, we in the audience had the spooky feeling that we were seeing Shakespeare himself using his last play to bid farewell to the stage.

St. John's season was expected to end weeks ago, but a surge through four rounds of the N.I.T. has given Hatten a farewell on center stage.