Look up: footlights

1. Footlights
   A series of floodlights (qv) placed on the stage floor along the front of the stage. Traditional in variety theatres, foots are nowadays rarely used.
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2. Footlights
   A batten of lights mounted on the stage floor, generally not used today except for special effects. The earliest English use of footlights was 1672 - but they became popular after their installation at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, in 1758 by the legendary David Garrick, after whom there have been theatres named in both England and America. Garrick probably used an idea from the French. A rumoured use of footlights was to blind the cast so they could not see the audience, hopefully to reduce n…
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3. Footlights
   Normally found on the forestage pointing up stage, can be permanent or mobile.
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4. footlights
   noun theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors
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5. Footlights
   `Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club`, commonly referred to simply as the `Footlights`, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England founded in 1883,<ref name="history">http://footlights.org/history.html Footlights history--> and run by the students of Cambridge Univers...
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