54 Sentences With "mistress of ceremonies"

And as the ballet's soloist — its mysterious, flamboyant, mistress of ceremonies — Ms. Reichlen was sensational.

Serving as the pageant's mistress of ceremonies and the film's quasi-narrator is Flawless Sabrina (Jack Doroshow).

The Oscars seemed to roll along just fine last night without a master or mistress of ceremonies.

Ms. Reichlen dances the soloist — mistress of ceremonies — in "Rubies" in two performances, the "Diamonds" ballerina in the two others.

Three: An offer from Tracee Ellis Ross to Rihanna and Harry Styles This year's mistress of ceremonies was Tracee Ellis Ross, whose five showstopping outfits matched her hosting style.

As the lone female soloist of "Rubies" — its dangerously commanding mistress of ceremonies — the much younger Emily Kikta was just as terrific an example of Balanchine's view of girl power.

But there's no obvious correlation between a lack of a single master or mistress of ceremonies and a wreck of a show; one data point does not a trend line make.

In the same series — the flagship production of what we might call the Ryan Murphy Troupe — Jessica Lange has been a sinister nun, a witch and a maniacal, musical mistress of ceremonies.

With "RuPaul's Drag Race" alumnus Dusty Ray Bottoms as Mistress of Ceremonies, and costumes by the former "Project Runway" contestant Nicolas Putvinski, "Cleopatra" is a pop concert fashion show with standing room, a bar and some intense audience participation.

She has acted as 'mistress of ceremonies' for a group wedding in 2006.

Now she is a rowdydowdy mistress of ceremonies in the comic movie shorts shown on these pages.

Monica Bellucci was the mistress of ceremonies. 2003 Un Certain Regard poster, adapted from an original illustration by Oswaldo Vigas.

Kristin Scott Thomas was the mistress of ceremonies. 199 Un Certain Regard poster, adapted from an original illustration by Assane N' Doye.

In 2014 she engaged in social experiments, one of which focused on examining rudeness. In 2015 she hosted the Regional Economic Development Council Awards as the mistress of ceremonies.

She created all her own costumes for her performances, with zippers for quick changes. She appeared with the Red Gate Players, directed by puppeteer Pauline Benton; she succeeded Soo Yong and the troupe's "mistress of ceremonies".

Veronique Chevalier (born Berenice Chloe Sztuczka) is an award-winning France- born American mistress of ceremonies, singer-songwriter, music producer, comedian and parodist popular in the steampunk community. She produces live cabaret in Southern California and is an emcee of steampunk events nationwide.

The festival opened with Lemming, directed by Dominik Moll and closed with Chromophobia, directed by Martha Fiennes. Cécile de France was the mistress of ceremonies. 2005 Un Certain Regard poster featuring James Dean's portrait by Floyd McCarty from Rebel Without a Cause.

The 49th Cannes Film Festival was held from 9 to 20 May 1996. The Palme d'Or went to Secrets & Lies by Mike Leigh. The festival opened with Ridicule, directed by Patrice Leconte and closed with Flirting with Disaster, directed by David O. Russell. Sabine Azéma was the mistress of ceremonies.

She also made appearances on The Bell Telephone Hour, The Prudential Family Hour, Songs of the Centuries, and Your Hit Parade among others. In 1944 she made a special Christmas recording that was for the American soldiers stationed abroad during World War II, with Shirley Temple as mistress of ceremonies.

The 47th Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 1994. The Palme d'Or went to the American film Pulp Fiction directed by Quentin Tarantino. The festival opened with The Hudsucker Proxy, directed by Joel Coen and closed with Serial Mom, directed by John Waters. Jeanne Moreau was the mistress of ceremonies.

The 48th Cannes Film Festival was held from 17 to 28 May 1995. The Palme d'Or went to Underground by Emir Kusturica. The festival opened with La Cité des enfants perdus, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and closed with The Quick and the Dead, directed by Sam Raimi. Carole Bouquet was the mistress of ceremonies.

The 50th Cannes Film Festival was held from 7 to 18 May 1997. The Palme d'Or was jointly awarded to Ta'm e guilass by Abbas Kiarostami and Unagi by Shohei Imamura. Jeanne Moreau was the mistress of ceremonies. The festival opened with The Fifth Element, directed by Luc Besson, and closed with Absolute Power, directed by Clint Eastwood.

The 46th Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 May 1993. The Palme d'Or went to Farewell My Concubine by Chen Kaige and The Piano by Jane Campion. The festival opened with My Favorite Season, directed by André Téchiné and closed with Toxic Affair, directed by Philomène Esposito. Jeanne Moreau was the mistress of ceremonies.

The 55th Cannes Film Festival started on 15 May and ran until 26 May 2002. The Palme d'Or went to the Polish-French-German-British co-produced film The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski. The festival opened with Hollywood Ending, directed by Woody Allen and closed with And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen, directed by Claude Lelouch. Virginie Ledoyen was the mistress of ceremonies.

Her fellow prisoners helped her escape and return to Berlin. Von Demandowsky was executed by the Russians on 7 October 1946, but before that he secured for Knef the protection of the well-known character actor Viktor de Kowa in Berlin. De Kowa gave her the opportunity to be a mistress of ceremonies in the theatre that he had opened.

Sylvia St. James is original Mistress of Ceremonies for the House of Blues Sunday Gospel Brunch. She produced and directed the event. Her appearances are in a signature long, white embroidered dress with a wide, feathered hat. The Sunday Gospel Brunch was hosted at House of Blues venues across the United States in major cities such as Houston, Orlando, Chicago, New York, San Diego, Vegas, and Dallas.

136 - In 1942, she played fourteen weeks at the old Elks' Rendezvous as the mistress of ceremonies and announced a weekly radio show over station WMCA in New York City. She also did character dialect parts on many broadcasts for the Columbia Workshop Program. Edna Mae Harris got to tell her story in her later years in the documentary, Midnight Ramble (1994), about independently produced black films.

BauerLatoza Studio was hired to develop the entire project, which modernized the architecture, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems. BauerLatoza Studio also designed new computer and science labs that were installed throughout the building., BauerLatoza Studio The grand reopening was held by the Lindblom Alumni Association and the Board of Education on October 14, 2005. The occasion featured alumna Cheryl Burton, a prominent TV journalist in Chicago, as the mistress of ceremonies.

The opera features two 16th- century Spanish saints—the former mercenary Ignatius of Loyola and the mystic Teresa of Avila—as well as their colleagues, real and imagined: St. Plan, St. Settlement, St. Plot, St. Chavez, etc. Thomson decided to divide St. Teresa's role between two singers, "St. Teresa I" and "St. Teresa II", and added the master and mistress of ceremonies (Compère and Commère—literally, the "godparents") to sing Stein's stage directions.

8 years later, the Giants won the World Series, when San Francisco defeated the Texas Rangers in 5 games. They won the World Series again in 2012 in a 4-game sweep over the Detroit Tigers, and won the 2014 World Series in 7 games over the Kansas City Royals. In July 2018, Brooks-Moon served as the "Mistress of Ceremonies" at the inauguration of London Breed, the 45th Mayor of San Francisco.

She is the first British person to win the Gold Lion Award. Time Out Magazine described her as "...a flamboyant hybrid of Bette Midler and Mary Poppins." She was chosen to perform for Queen Elizabeth II and her family at the queen's 80th birthday celebration. Romany now headlines with her own theatre show on luxury cruise ships and is in demand as a flamboyant 'Mistress of Ceremonies' around the world for large scale celebrations and events.

Her work in that medium included creating the soap opera Big Sister (1936) and writing scripts for it; and she wrote for Your Family and Mine (1938). She also acted on two radio series and was mistress of ceremonies on You and Your Happiness. Lauferty's work was also published in magazines, including Collier's, Cosmopolitan, Liberty, and Redbook. Books by Lauferty included a novelization of Edward Henry Peple's A Pair of Sixes (1914), The Hungry House (1943), and Baritone (1948).

The full film lineup for the festival was announced on 15 April 2010. English actress Kristin Scott Thomas was the mistress of ceremonies. Agence France-Presse, Reuters, Associated Press and Getty TV boycotted the press conference that announced the line-up for the festival, due to a dispute over access to the red carpet. In a press release, the agencies said that they "may be forced to suspend their presence at the festival altogether" if an agreement was not reached.

The Mystic Krewe of Barkus traces its history to a November 1992 meeting of the Margaret Orr fan club. Orr is a meteorologist for New Orleans television station WDSU and regularly participates in the event as a Mistress of Ceremonies. The parade evolved from a bar prank, as a member of the club hatched the idea for a canine-centered "krewe" and it took hold. The Krewe was granted official parading status by the city of New Orleans in 1994.

Tumbas francesas are directed by a mistress of ceremonies called mayora de plaza. Performances generally begin with improvised solo singing in a mixture of Spanish and French patois termed kreyol cubano or patuá cubano by the lead vocalist (composé). After the introduction, the catá (a wooden cylindrical idiophone struck with two sticks) is played, and the composé alternates call and response singing with a group of female vocalists (tumberas). After the catá establishes the beat, the three tumbas are played.

During the same period, Tillier also appeared in the second version of the sketch show Le Débarquement on Canal+ in December 2013. She was the mistress of ceremonies of the thirtieth anniversary of Canal+ in November 2014. In June 2015, on the occasion of the ten years of the popular TV show Salut les Terriens!, she performed a song in homage to the star presenter Thierry Ardisson with music by Barbara, written by Nicolas Bedos who accompanied with the piano.

Kodak vice president Frederick "Fritz" Bender Herman (1902 -1990) collaborated with Silva and the Royal Hawaiian Girls Glee Club in 1937 to create the Kodak Hula Show in Waikiki. He was the original master of ceremonies until World War II when he enlisted in the United States Navy, and the show ceased operations. Kodak's sponsorship resumed in 1949, with Silva as mistress of ceremonies.; After Silva's death in 1980, management was taken over by May Brown, who had been one of the original performers.

The event was a celebration of the arts with Dr. Peyton McCoy serving as the Mistress of Ceremonies and poetically weaving the club's history throughout the program. Performers included vocalist Joye B. Moore, jazz pianist Dr. W. Weldon Hill, saxophonist Juan "JD" Young, jazz bassist Michael Hawkins, and the Victor Haskins Quartet. Kym Grinnage, Vice President of the NBC affiliate WWBT, and his wife, Kyle Grinnage performed an entertaining dance and educated guests on the origins of "the hustle". The event was covered by RVA Magazine.

Isabelle Huppert was the mistress of ceremonies. In 1998, two new sections were added to the Official Selection, the Un Certain Regard and the Cinéfondation. The aim of the Cinéfondation section is to support the creation of works of cinema in the world and to contribute to the entry of the new scenario writers in the circle of the celebrities. For this, fifteen to twenty short and medium-length films by students from film schools from around the world are selected and the best three are awarded by the Cinéfondation and Short films Jury.

Kỳ met and married his first wife, a Frenchwoman, in the 1950s when he was training as a pilot in France. In the 1960s, he divorced her and married Đặng Tuyết Mai an Air Viet Nam flight attendant, who was his spouse during his years in power. He later married for a third time.Kỳ's personal life His daughter from his second marriage, Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên, is well known in the overseas Vietnamese entertainment industry as a mistress of ceremonies and singer on the music variety show Paris By Night.

In 2006, Bond appeared in the film Shortbus, as part of cast that included Sook-Yin Lee, PJ DeBoy, and Paul Dawson. In the movie, directed by fellow Radical Faerie John Cameron Mitchell, Bond played the mistress of ceremonies at the eponymous avant-garde salon Shortbus, singing the Scott Matthew number, "In the End," to the music of the Hungry March Band. One journalist commented that this expressed "in just one scene that heightened sense of simultaneous hope and despair in post–9/11 downtown New York City."Albo 2011.

They miss the auditions for the Night of a Thousand Stevies, and Gypsy learns that her mother committed suicide four years earlier. The sympathetic Mistress of Ceremonies, also her mother's best friend when she was in New York, allows Gypsy to perform a song she wrote for her mother at the end of the show. In the end, Gypsy stays in New York to pursue her musical aspirations like her mother, and Clive returns to Sandusky to finish high school but plans to come back to New York after he graduates.

Sylvia St. James is an American gospel and soul singer, recording artist, and entertainment host. She is best known for her time as the Mistress of Ceremonies of the House of Blues Sunday Gospel Brunch, and her appearances in her signature long, white embroidered dress with a wide, feathered hat. St. James has performed solo and as a leader of the St. James Gospel Choir on the television show The Ellen DeGeneres Show among others and with artists including Andrea Bocelli, Michael Bublé, Stevie Wonder, Harry Connick Jr., and Barbra Streisand.

The well known news journalists Mari Cruz Soriano and Miguel de los Santos were the master and mistress of ceremonies of this edition of the OTI Festival. The presenters after the opening act, performed by the philharmonic orchestra of TVE gave their usual introductory speech in Spanish and Portuguese languages in which they highlighted the main goals of the OTI organisation as a media group and the OTI Festival as a song competition. When the performance round started, as usual the presenters made brief individual presentations of the participating performers and entries.

She also starred as mistress of ceremonies of her own half-hour CBS radio show on the West Coast, the Hollywood Music Hall. On October 21, 1952 Norman celebrated the fourth anniversary of the show"Channels and Dials," (October 21, 1952), The San Diego Union, San Diego, CA Although the literature is unclear about the number of episodes, Norman's Hollywood Music Hall also debuted as a proposed television series in 1953, featuring the Victor Young Orchestra."'Hall' Bows on KTLA from Para Stage." (December 12, 1953), Billboard (magazine), Los Angeles Norman was seen on various television shows originating in Southern California.

She recorded both a country and gospel album for BMG Records in Switzerland, and toured in Europe and Asia, including performing for the King of Malaysia. She was the featured performer with the United States Air Force Band at a memorial for World War II veterans. During Holden's service as president of the Music City Christian Fellowship, she performed as singer and mistress of ceremonies for the Christian Country Music Awards and the Sunday gospel shows at the Grand Ole Opry. Holden charted two singles for TRA-Star Records in 1989: "The Truth Doesn't Always Rhyme" and "License to Steal".

Over the next several years, she became the spokesperson for several conservative groups in Alabama and a fixture on talk radio programs. On November 6, 2012, she was mistress of ceremonies for the Alabama Republican Party's election night celebration at a shooting range in Hoover, Alabama. In November 2013, using her married name, Amie Beth Shaver declared her candidacy as a Republican for Alabama House District 43. One of 7 candidates vying for the Republican slot on the ballot, she won 22.5% of the vote in the June 2014 primary and qualified for the July 15, 2014 runoff.

Jack, a 24-year-old gay man living in New York and working as a drag queen named Sabrina, is the mistress of ceremonies for the Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest. The competition operates on a points system: a maximum of five points each for walk, talk, bathing suit, gown, make-up and hair-do, and ten points for beauty. In between rehearsing and performing, the contestants discuss topics such as draft boards, sexual identity, sex-change operations, trans identifies, and being a drag queen. One contestant recounts receiving a draft notice and being turned away because of his feminine appearance, despite requesting to serve and protect his country.

She is skillful, as a character actress in local theaters and national television movies. She has performed on every stage in New Orleans, as a mistress of ceremonies, songstress, lead in musical theatre and drama. She is best known for her portrayal as Amanda Wingfield, in Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie," and Desiree in Stephen Sondheim/Hugh Wheeler's "A Little NIght Music.” Her loyal work with PBS has been a constant. She wrote and produced "Dark Secrets" about Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, as well as, a nationally distributed poetry series called “The Passionate Poet.” Mrs. Mintz released a grammy nominated CD for spoken word, a romantic poetry collection called "Soft Words, Warm Nights.

Mistress of Ceremonies of the USA IBC, Anna-Marie Holmes, passed Tidwell's application videotape to Kevin McKenzie, artistic director of the elite American Ballet Theatre (ABT). Upon viewing it, McKenzie suggested to John Meehan (the ABT Education Director) that he offer Tidwell a place in the ABT Studio Company (its apprentice wing). Just two months later, Tidwell joined the Studio Company - without an audition - and soon after, in May 2003, he was promoted into their corps de ballet just before the ABT's 2003 season began at the Metropolitan Opera House. He performed many works in the classical ballet repertory, and although only a corps member, he was given soloists roles in Le Spectre de la Rose and the peasant pas de deux from Giselle.

Now, many years later, the annual Fourth of July Invasion of the Pines attracts hundreds of drag queens and thousands of spectators to what has become an annual Independence Day event. The queens arrive at the Fire Island Pines Harbor On the afternoon of July 4 each year, drag queens from both Cherry Grove and the Pines gather at the Ice Palace Bar at the Cherry Grove Hotel in Cherry Grove; after parading through the street of Cherry Grove, they board a chartered ferry boat and sail to the Pines Harbor, where they are greeted by thousands of cheering residents and visitors. As each drag queen leaves the ferry and marches onto the dock, she is announced by Panzi, the original 1976 invasion leader, now mistress of ceremonies. Jon Morrow, a film maker (and gynecologist) from New York, has made a short documentary film on the annual celebrations (link below).

The audience entered through the back of the warehouse for the first time and took their seats at cafe tables. A dominatrix-like mistress of ceremonies portraying Virgil - the only performer whose words were not pre-recorded - issued instructions on how to move through the space and rules for interacting with the performers. A chorus of women in elegant modern matching suits with fur collars appeared, one in the attitude of walking a statue of a greyhound sitting stiffly at attention, followed by a solitary male actor also in elegant modern clothing (Counts’ Dante). He stopped in front of an opening in a large wall which then tipped over and fell to the floor around him, pushing a strong gust of wind out at the audience.A reference to a scene in Buster Keaton’s Steamboat Bill, Jr. in which the facade of a house falls on Keaton who, having been standing in the trajectory of a windowframe, was unscathed.

She recorded a country album for Curb Records, with her music videos appearing on TNN and CMT. She also recorded both a country and gospel album for BMG Records in Switzerland and toured internationally all over Europe and the Far East, even performing for the King of Malaysia. She had the honor of being the featured performer with the United States Air Force Band at a memorial for WWll veterans for which the President of the United States was the guest speaker. During Holden’s service as president of the Music City Christian Fellowship, she performed as singer and mistress of ceremonies for the Christian Country Music Awards and the Sunday gospel shows at the Grand Ole Opry. First discovered by a top talent agent while continuing her voice studies in NY, she became one of New York’s top models, landing the prestigious title of The Breck Girl, which led to magazine covers and countless other national commercials such as Ivory Soap, Dentyne, Kellogg’s, Gillette, Arrid, Chevrolet, and ultimately a major television and film career in Los Angeles.

She serves as Mistress of Ceremonies, Performer and Speaker for many Charitable, Corporate, Church, Military, Sports & Political Events, and is in demand for her rendition of the National Anthem. Holden is also launching a new jewelry line which will be innovatively packaged with her new Duets CD entitled Dreams Come True. This album will include Holden singing with some of the greatest and most iconic male artists in the world. Her magnificent duet with Jon Secada of the center- piece song, “Dreams Come True”, based upon the famous classical Pachelbel's Canon, has now become the #1 Most Popular & Most Requested Wedding Song on YouTube even before its release and has organically surpassed 40 million views. It is also being recorded in Spanish with Seceda and a new Club Remix by UK’s red-hot Club Junkies reprises the album. Holden is committed to spreading her message and the message of “Dreams Come True”: When you believe one person can make a difference (the “Knight Rider” theme), then you can make “DREAMS COME TRUE”. While continuing voice studies in New York City, Holden became a model best known as "the Breck Girl".