curtain raiser

If the piece began the performance, it was called a curtain raiser.

And this, he reminded himself, was only the curtain raiser.

There was the night in 1972 when, as the curtain raiser for his latest feature.

Getting to those works, however, meant wading through two curtain raisers, which is at least one too many.

In a way, the city's skyline has long been a stage set, the curtain raiser for the American dream.

It was the curtain raiser for the election tragedy of August 1854.

The latter was immediately replaced by a series of other curtain raisers.

The result was a masterpiece diluted into a curtain raiser.

It is the curtain raiser to the Brunei football season.

The curtain raiser for this match was played by a makeshift team of Japanese university students.

Cox and Box was played as a curtain raiser.

The Carp enjoyed an unusually long run for a curtain raiser.

Many have been fanfares and curtain raisers, but there are substantial pieces among them as well.

It was intended to be used as a curtain raiser, and was never printed.

The curtain raiser for the fall couture openings turned into a bit of a bash.

But it seldom reaches the exhilarating heights of its curtain raiser.

It is also a 'curtain raiser' to the second game, to be played by the Mariners.

This may have been a curtain raiser for the main event on Monday 30 August.

As it transpired, this was a mere curtain raiser.

The curtain raiser was followed by an under age hurling match and ladies football game.

Cultural Night acts as the curtain raiser and the proceeds of the event go to a charitable institute.

This was a curtain raiser for the pantomime Aladdin, in which she also appeared.

The three remaining candidates in the 1988 race are using star-studded events as curtain raisers for Tuesday's primary.

At a Beatles concert in 1966, they acted as curtain raisers, but the audience generally objected.

King of Chefs - The curtain raiser of the event.