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Noun(1) theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors

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(1) He set himself down in a chair amid the footlights .(2) We don't know our stage directions anymore and the footlights are fading into the shadows.(3) Suffice it to say they are excellently put across the footlights .(4) I've played opposite a lot of people I've really liked, and I've seen nothing on screen - it just doesn't cross the footlights , or translate or screen.(5) But instead of acting, he is on the other side of the footlights , and he is finding that the pressure is greater in his new role.(6) The appearance of pity and fear on both sides of the footlights seems not to rule out catharsis as a principle in dramatic criticism.(7) The water, representing the Milky Way that kept the lovers apart, ran downstage to the footlights , and into a basin.(8) That was why the opera was verismo; the chorus singing the part of the townspeople on stage were speaking the minds of the real audience out beyond the footlights .(9) That got lost before it crossed the footlights .(10) A bank of overhead lights swivelled to supplement the beams of the footlights , while the stereo system poured out a constant stream of foot-tapping music.(11) Never final, admittedly flawed, it was arguably a masterwork as its proponents on both sides of the footlights have proclaimed with passion.(12) Why he chose to cross over the footlights and climb onto the stage and be an actor in this story is beyond me.(13) While novelty ignites temporary enthusiasm on both sides of the footlights , the Washington Ballet's most urgent need would seem to be productions of proven old works.(14) The sad thing is that the waves of love that broke across the footlights every time he stood on a stage were probably never equalled in his private life.(15) In the cavernous stage of the Richmond Theatre all the nuances of the performance, if any, were lost in the attempt to get the material across the footlights effectively.(16) Australians have created over 700 original musicals, though few of them see the light of day, let alone the footlights of Her Majesty's.