the footlights

A wispy song called “Time” wafted over the footlights: “Time time time time/It was never mine mine mine.”

He is the Los Angeles Chargers, playing in the footlights of Hollywood on a roster that’s dwindled to just two holdovers from the San Diego days.

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was perhaps the first show to take this step toward Broadway, but all sorts of series have followed it into the footlights: “Fringe,” “Psych,” “Xena: Warrior Princess,” “Futurama,” “One Life to Live,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Community,” “Transparent” and more.

She also called them other things, as when, leaning across the footlights, she would address a woman in the front row in a confiding, carrying voice: “I know, dear. I used to make my own clothes, too.”

“It’s like waves of love coming over the footlights.”