Barely more than five years later, however, Ms. Reed all but stepped off stage.
Before long, I would be on the phone to my dad, boasting that I had just stepped off stage from singing with Billy Bragg at Glastonbury.
3 A.M., WEBSTER HALL A burlesque dancer with a Marilyn Monroe coif who goes by the name of Stormy Leather, 31, took her final bows and stepped off stage.
After rousing encores from Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," a beaming Mr. Maazel stepped off stage, lowered his head, pumped his arms like a runner, then charged back out for a final bow.
Among 18 feature film appearances, Bowie played a vanishing FBI agent, a semi-fictionalised Serbian physicist, and Pontius Pilate, but he didn't step into the shoes of an ordinary man until 1991's The Linguini Incident, in which he starred as a down-on-his-luck New York bartender, albeit while looking like he'd just stepped off stage from the Glass Spider tour.
When she steps off stage, Spears signs an autograph for Sigourney Weaver ("My kid is a huge fan," the actress explains), whisks up her entourage and leaves in a white, unmarked van.
Two days later, we stepped off stage with the Disrupt Cup in our hands and got sucked into a tornado of downloads, happy users, angry users, global media attention, and very little sleep.
His friends in The Arcs had just stepped off stage at another venue down the street.
This person who played a role in your life, no matter what that role was, has stepped off stage.
The tattooed rapper looked like he had just stepped off stage, decked out in goth-gangsta attire.
