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The store got its name from a theatre's dress circle.

They will be inserted under the dress circle and worked into the new design.

Those in the second floor dress circle had to contend with stairs.

No one had been seen in the dress circle.

He scanned the left side of the dress circle slowly, and then gradually turned to the right.

"Well, it seems we're at the opposite end of the dress circle," he said to her, smiling.

The dress circle occupied a second floor balcony which seated 550.

The projection equipment is housed in the former dress circle bar.

Down below, under the dress circle, the lower boxes were buried in utter night.

The first level is usually called the dress circle or grand circle.

The woman had settled down on Alex's left, but the curve of the dress circle placed them both clearly in view!

Inside the theatre is an auditorium with a dress circle, gallery and boxes.

Farley ordered one last inspection of the dress circle, but saw no activity.

He had reached the bottom of the dress circle and was stepping onto the parquet.

The 6-door frontage led to the dress circle to accommodate the wealthy.

The building was unique in that it had a balcony overhanging the dress circle.

The boxes had also been removed from the dress circle and the seating layout changed throughout the building.

Then, as Booth made his way up the stairs to the dress circle, he saw that there was an empty chair to the presidential box.

Access to the dress circle was more straightforward.

The stairway was over seven feet wide, and, according to Jackson's estimates, should have emptied the dress circle in under three minutes.

In 2011, Dress Circle announced financial problems with the business and that closure would be imminent.

The original cast album was available on the Dress Circle record label.

Very good seats they were too, bang in the middle of the front row of the dress circle.

My palankeen deposited me at the stage door, her's took her to the dress circle.

The view from the back of the dress circle is stunning now, although it is nothing theatergoers will ever see.

The lift had already taken them past the first balcony.

Boris arrived on the first balcony with two more officers.

"I put her right dab in the middle of the first balcony," he said.

He made the dangerous leap across space to the first balcony without difficulty.

He finally got a subscription in 1919 (two seats, first balcony right).

The public also sits on the stage and in the left corner of the first balcony - the theater has two.

I walked off the spiral and looked at the penguins on the first balcony.

He explained, "My bedroom and studio are on the first balcony.

The front of the first balcony is highly ornamented.

He pointed upward to the curving rim above the first balcony and made a face.

But only the first balcony and main floor, which lost its raked angle in an earlier renovation, will be open for now.

Stravinsky, then 84, was seated in the first balcony.

This is not the first balcony burglar that Fort Lee has had.

At a slight sound Bode looked up, to discover the fox-masked woman on the first balcony.

As soon as we got up to the first balcony, he hauled up the fire escape after us.

There was an orchestra section, a first balcony, and an upper balconies, with narrow doorways.

Moviegoers will enter the old building, which will have ticket windows and a restaurant on the first balcony.

They met on the first balcony.

Subtitles are visible from every seat except for those at the very back of the arena and of the first balcony.

He himself retired to his studio on the first balcony and read from Domestic Manners of the Americans.

On the first balcony there is also a cafe where almost every detail is Aalto's.

We can close off the second balcony and even part of the first balcony at City Center to make a 1,200- to 1,600-seat theater.

The 4,928 delegates and alternates packed onto the floor and into the first balcony at the Garden didn't seem to mind.

"I could get up on that first balcony and go in through the balcony door, then on up the stairs."

In a visually striking innovation, the side sections of orchestra seats slope upward so they connect with the first balcony.