11.   The curtain opens and the actor Ron Leibman, impeccably attired for business, is sitting at an impressive-looking desk working the phone.

12.   The curtain opened.

13.   The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion curtain opens to a scene bursting with life and color.

14.   The curtain opens and the players are on stage.

15.   Will future cubicles for trousers inspection have curtains that sweep open at the pull of a lever, like a voting booth?

16.   A curtain opens, revealing three monks and a priest circling an altar.

17.   On Monday, after the singing of the solemn national anthem, the curtain opened to a full brass band engulfed in clouds of dry ice-generated mist.

18.   The curtain opens to five women examining their manicures, checking their watches and wagging their fingers at a boyfriend no doubt getting a dressing down for being late.