1.   The curtain went up, essentially in darkness.

2.   While Buckley spread the gospel at the Moscone Center, the curtain went up on widespread management departures.

3.   Before the curtain went up, the dancers took their places on stage.

4.   The curtain went up on the final act of the play and revealed the aristocrat sitting alone behind bars in his dark cell.

5.   They give them about an hour there before the curtain goes up.

6.   Twice he was called to the telephone just before the curtain went up and he had long intense conversations with his hand over the mouthpiece.

7.   Even in the opera the Passacaglia ends not when the curtain goes up but when it comes down.

8.   The curtain went up last night on The Little Shop of Horrors.

9.   And little girls throughout the hall oohed and aahed when the curtain went up to reveal a stageful of women in glittering gowns for the royal ball.

10.   And when the reporter is looking away, their lips touch lightly in mutual reassurance, as though a curtain is going up.