At curtain-up, a chorus of Beefeaters and RAF chicks welcomes the royal family onto the stage, with each Windsor dressed in suitable garb.
The theme of good versus evil is crudely handled, with Dr Jekyll transforming into nasty old Hyde within seconds of curtain-up, leaving any ideas of establishing the personalities or building up tension out in the cold.
A few of them are lingering for so long in front of the one entitled Beggars Banquet, they are in danger of missing curtain-up.
I can personally attest to the similarities between the atmospheres backstage before curtain-up and that of a restaurant in the buildup to a dinner service.
The players experience diverse temptations as they rehearse, and with curtain-up approaching, their self knowledge begins to control events in a way that is both funny and sad.
The panto will be staged at Castlecomer Community Centre, with curtain-up nightly at 8 p.m. There will be matinee performances on both Sunday afternoons, for the children.
For the man who was still writing the Dissocia script just days before curtain-up, the process of dealing with a 30-strong chorus is proving a challenge of its own.
The final words before curtain-up were left to Matthew who told the gathered throng: ‘It is a great honour to be at this wonderful old theatre and for my group of dancers to be the first to perform here.’
Hundreds of people had to be ushered out of the Palace Theatre just before curtain-up.
The atmosphere was later compared to the night in London theatres when it was announced before curtain-up that the president had died’.
It was no joke when Cullingworth theatre group CADS lost half of its comic duo only a fortnight before curtain-up for the annual pantomime.
Eric and Gemma visited the theatrical and media make-up department at Oldham College to get in the mood ahead of curtain-up and students gave them a fun makeover.
I was concerned that we would find it a rush to get to the theatre for the 7.45 pm curtain-up, but the staff are well-aware of such things, and the service is perfectly-timed but never rushed.
That strange low buzz, just perceptible beneath the excited hum of a world waiting for curtain-up on the 20,000th showing of The Mousetrap: the longest-running murder mystery saga of all time.
Preparation for the show starts 36 hours before curtain-up, and we will have up to twelve people working around the clock up to the very last minute.
He eventually got to Dublin at 7.15 pm, just a quarter of an hour before curtain-up.
The play will be staged in Rathanna Hall on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, March 28-30, with curtain-up nightly at 8.30 pm.
I realised it was ages until curtain-up so I thought I would nip outside for a fag.
Of course Billy was spot-on from curtain-up, grabbing the audience in the palm of his hands while simultaneously squirting them with make-believe doggy wee.
‘We are very proud of the fact that this is our 23rd production,’ she told the Waterford News & Star prior to curtain-up to a full house on Saturday night.