11.   In the role of Count Ory, though, the Italian tenor William Matteuzzi let the team down and was rewarded with boos at the final curtain.

12.   Indeed, after the final curtain on the last performance here, the show went on.

13.   It is perhaps unfair to review a play before the final curtain.

14.   It must be seen and heard from start to final curtain, and here is a good opportunity to do so.

15.   It took three months for the drama to play out, and Monday, the final curtain falls.

16.   So there is no way of seeing his performance and slipping out before the final curtain.

17.   The brass playing at the final curtain provided a sliver of happiness to take home with us.

18.   The composer Lalo Schifrin in turn arranged the lively crowd-pleasing medleys that brought the three men together on stage before intermission and again before the final curtain.

19.   The final curtain came down Tuesday.

20.   The night I saw the show, the final curtain cut off Sahl in midbow.