Okay, former pal, I'll get out, but I want to make a short curtain speech, very short.

There was a full panoply of onstage board members, and Star Jones made a well-informed curtain speech.

"Anyone who comes here knows we hardly ever make curtain speeches," Mr. Norman said in an interview later.

Mr. Chambers, dressed in drag, delivered the standard curtain speech before the show to drum up subscriptions for the theater's season.

In response to which, O'Neil adds, she made the same brief, breathless curtain speech she was always known to speak.

Peter Martins, the company's artistic director, opened the evening on a somber note in a curtain speech.

I recognized this deathless line as the curtain speech and crawled to my feet.

But I promise to study that new business for Julia's curtain speech before I go to bed tonight.

At this point the leading lady, Frances Doble, stepped forward to make the curtain speech she'd prepared.

Actors aren't trading in their curtain speeches for a pop tune.