Sentence examples for stage on fire from inspiring English sources

MICHEL CAMILO TOOK TO the keyboard of the Kresge B osend"orfer last Friday evening on his first American concert date and set the stage "on fire". He opened with upbeat "Island Stomp" from his appropriately entitled second album, On Fire, just released last week, and continued with more pieces from this and his first album, Michel Camilo.

In one New York show, at the Ritz, the band set the stage on fire.

Josh Levin put it well at Slate: If you sign up for the role of carnival barker, you've got to expect that the suckers will light the stage on fire when the sham gets exposed.

FRANKFURT — On Monday night, the Volkswagen Group rang every bell, blew every whistle, trotted out a troupe of dogs and ponies and, quite literally, nearly set the stage on fire.

Skinny, badly outfitted in costume-shop gangster clothes, with the facial hair of an underage beer buyer and a vocal style that sounds as if he has just gargled some Scope, Kid Rock nonetheless sets the stage on fire (and gets the ladies screaming) with his crunchy rock-rap.

But twenty-two weeksincece it was first given airtime, Suhana hasn't quite set the stage on fire.

Then the stage set on fire.

They were watching a section from leading standup comic Mickey Parr's DVD, Would You Credit It? – On Stage And On Fire.

At some point I was looking out into the plaza and the concert stage was on fire.

All of a sudden, the parking lot behind the stage caught on fire and burnt my car up.

As if reassured by the surroundings, a man serenely strolls across the stage, his clothes on fire.