Behind the scenes

Usage examples of backstage.

Bill vanished backstage and the lights brightened as Bobbi stepped up to a microphone near the Melodians so she could get her cue from Ted.

I wondered if he was going to give her a tour of the renovated backstage or give her the business.

Another door and I was in the backstage area, fighting my way through a pack of sweating, chattering chorus girls.

I called the club but Bobbi was already backstage busy preparing for the show.

I won two hands and lost two, tipped him, and continued on to the backstage area just as the teacup number came to an end.

Bobbi emerged from someplace backstage and all but skipped right toward us.

Jim Waters returned from his backstage travels and I introduced him around the table.

I took the opportunity to get an early start toward the backstage area.

From here we were closer to the backstage rest rooms than the ones out front.

To have five or six different acts on the bill was not unusual in those days so they spent a great deal of time sitting around backstage with the other acts, waiting to go on.

Then she came backstage afterwards and so we all immediately tried to pull her.

We played the Moss Empire circuit a lot, and there were always these nice big empty backstage areas.

Cilla Black was getting her first TV show with a guy called Michael Hurll and they came to see me backstage somewhere and asked me, would I write the theme tune for it, so I said yes.

Paul had run into his old friend Bruce Welch, the rhythm guitarist with the Shadows, backstage at a Cliff Richard concert at the Talk of the Town and told him he was looking for somewhere to go for a short holiday.

Boyle backstage in that dressing room, you think he was trying to kill Manning?