Sentence examples for take curtain from inspiring English sources

Takao explains that they do not take curtain calls in Japan.

When I first saw this company in 1982, I worshiped just the way its female corps de ballet stood to take curtain calls, stretching a magnificent line from one raised arm down through one back-stretched leg.

It was 8 20, and while the other performers were hanging around to take curtain calls later that night, Mr. De Shields had another appointment, uptown, to be onstage at 8 45.

"I'm on the fence about it," said Mr. Volpe, who has been fending off suggestions from both the Met's board and its development department that donors of new productions should take curtain calls at the premieres and that their names should be included both on advertising posters and in the electronic titles.

Castorf and his team did not take curtain calls during the other three operas, so their appearance at the end of the cycle unleashed a pent-up tempest akin to the thunderstorms that explode over Bayreuth in a hot, humid August.

He said he rarely took curtain calls.

Taking curtain calls onstage, she can seem uncomfortable.

I know of no celebrated choreographer who takes curtain calls more briefly or sheepishly.

The ovations were ecstatic, especially when the 78-year-old Mr. Schenk took curtain calls.

For several earlier performances of individual "Ring" operas, Mr. Schenk, 78, had taken curtain calls and received frenzied ovations.

They were such a hit that he took to taking curtain calls in them regularly, and eventually they became a tradition.