treading the boards
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For the first time in 40 years, the artist is treading the boards in Wolverhampton this week for a production of Marie & Rosetta.
From BBC • May 27, 2025
Had she been treading the boards a few hundred years ago, there is little doubt Welch would indeed have been unafraid to give the Bard a piece of her mind.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024
And now, at age 71, she’s treading the boards in a beloved musical whose initial Broadway run with Carol Channing in 1963 won 10 Tony Awards.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2019
It's the ham actor in a daytime soap opera who dreams of treading the boards for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2012
"Ah, would that I were back again, treading the boards in my beloved Shakespeare, instead of in this miserable moving picture acting," sighed the tragedian.
From The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida by Hope, Laura Lee
