How to Use playbill in a Sentence
playbill
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At the end of the night, guests will get to take home a copy of the playbill signed by the stars of the show.
—Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2021
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Burch-Smith has a framed Phantom of the Opera playbill above his desk.
—Antonia Juhasz, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2022
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The scrolling credits and the fine print in the playbill record a strict division of labor.
—A. O. Scott, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
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The goal was first to be fair and chronicle the events leading to the mascot change, according to the show’s playbill.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 24 May 2021
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The hilarious fake cast bios in the playbill have references to the 1970s.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 19 June 2017
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The image on the Leopoldstadt playbill is of a young Jewish child playing with a cat's cradle.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
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At 88, Cleveland's grande dame of theater keeps moving forward, with a full playbill of shows on the horizon.
—Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 4 Feb. 2018
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Before the musical began, Sadie sat sidesaddle in her aisle seat and studied the playbill.
—Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
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Well, no yellowface here, as the surnames in the playbill — Lim, Panmeechao, Oh, Ozeki — attest.
—Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 21 Mar. 2018
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Her home was filled with memories of past performances from photos to props, outfits and playbills.
—Jacob Beltran, ExpressNews.com, 29 Jan. 2020
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Erika Jayne’s love affair with Las Vegas started with a playbill.
—Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 19 Apr. 2023
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Submissions came from as close as Triton's campus and as far away as Michigan, according to the playbill.
—Rachel K. Hindery, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2017
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The playbill guarantees at least three additional acts, plenty of time leftover for more fun and games.
—Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 29 May 2018
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Here’s a playbill credit one doesn’t see often: Pie consultant.
—Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 Mar. 2018
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Dan Klarer is ostensibly the only actor in director Robert Boles’ cast, but don’t let the playbill fool you.
—Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2017
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The playbill handily tells you which contemporary singers inspire the queens’ songs; the list ranges from Beyoncé to Adele to Britney Spears.
—Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2022
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Hence Wagner and Richard Strauss were struck from playbills, while the humanistic Beethoven generally got a pass.
—The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
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After swapping their playbills for coups of Champagne, the Veuve Clicquot continued to flow throughout dinner.
—Vogue, 14 Nov. 2019
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Intagliata: In other words—this work lays out a more definitive playbill of the acts in this galactic drama.
—Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2022
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In the meantime, the Duartes have launched a sponsorship campaign, starting at $35, who will receive playbill recognition and a T-shirt, up to large donations that come with the opportunity to name a seat — or even the stage.
—Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 13 May 2021
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Singer was also the group's publicity and marketing director, having designed the posters, artwork, tickets, playbills and t-shirts for the show.
—Junette Reyes, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2017
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Hopefully, these visitors will see the playbills of coming events and become ticket buyers.
—Ann Conway, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
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The audience’s involvement in the soul-searching to come is telegraphed when patrons pass through the Woolly Mammoth Theatre doors and are handed, along with a playbill, notebook paper and a pencil.
—Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
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The section is well illustrated with playbills, advertisements and photographs of Indians that were taken to be sold at the shows.
—Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 15 June 2017
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And while paper playbills have made a return in most venues, some theaters still relying on digital substitutes.
—Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
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Posters and musical playbill photos, clippings from my high school’s newspaper, drawings, and ticket stubs.
—Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 12 May 2020
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Set in a mythical town in rural upstate Maine by the name of Almost, the story is about ordinary people taking extraordinary risks, the playbill says.
—Fred Swegles, Orange County Register, 19 Apr. 2017
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Judging by Guadalupe's description of it, and the show's playbill information, the company's new evening-length story ballet is completely out of the ordinary.
—Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 7 May 2018
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Photographs and playbills of a Hindu drama attributed to King Shudraka in 1924.
—Hilary Howard, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019
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Beck Center for the Arts, like many theaters today, is experimenting with an all-digital playbill accessed via their website/QP code rather than a hard copy program.
—Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 23 July 2021
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