Sentence examples for theatrical failure from inspiring English sources

In two ways, though, that theatrical failure led to Curtis's movie career.

No doubt, long ago, before the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark became a byword for spectacular theatrical failure and fodder for easy jokes by late-night talkshow hosts, it seemed as sure as eggs.

Though composers from Gluck to Fauré and Delius had theatrical failures with works that were too beautiful for their own good, Catán's sense of musical architecture enabled his relatively non-dissonant works to hold audience interest.

That reveals a contrast so stark that no theatrical triumph or failure can disguise or ameliorate it.

But compared to his peers, the theatrical CEO's failure was honest.

He is a vivid creation, and dominates the second half of the book — a crank, a shaman, an urban philosopher, an interesting failure and theatrical bore, he is the kind of comic character who properly overpowers good novels.

In spite of their obvious theatrical defects and a failure to engage the sympathies of the audience for the characters, these plays succeed in handling moral and religious issues of some complexity while entertaining the audience with farcical plots and some shrewd social satire.

If the theater can keep up the momentum, "Zorro" will be remembered as the play that rescued an important theatrical experiment from imminent failure.

Or perhaps, she is a metaphor for Kuhn, her gloom symbolic of the artist's own sense of disappointment at a patchy career as an artist, and failure as a theatrical impresario?

The score remains enchanting but, somewhere along the line, there has been a serious failure of the theatrical imagination".

In the theatrical world "turkey" means "flop," or failure.