Example sentences of "for the stage [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On leaving Oxford without a degree he studied for the stage at the Embassy Theatre School , and made his London début at the Queen 's Theatre on 6 September 1937 with ( Sir ) John Gielgud in Shakespeare 's Richard II . |
| 2 | Mr Dass could n't understand how a set of curtains for the stage at the Easter Fete could have driven a boy to such ends . |
| 3 | In 1959 The Once and Future King was adapted for the stage as a musical called Camelot , by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe . |
| 4 | It is not formally structured as it is in the ballets of other countries where choreographers are more likely to present the traditional dance itself , slightly adapted for the stage with the footwork more complicated . |
| 5 | To achieve such a blend of the absurd and the tragic , the writing as well as the acting have to be of exceptional quality — and Courtenay has drawn his inspiration from a remarkable novel by Venedikt Yerofeev which has been adapted for the stage by Stephen Mulrine . |