I am about to open our production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and am curious about how the rest of you view the cast in terms of curtain call priority.  I know how I feel about it, but would like to hear from the rest of you who you consider "the leads".  Don't worry about directoral nuance or artistic details.  From the Script - who takes the last bow?...and why?

What was I thinking!?  I left myself wide open for that one!  Thanks Joe!

That makes sense.  I think its an interesting quandry to figure out who, if anyone, should get a solo call...especially the last bow before ensemble.  I know that my Bottom (that sounds wrong) believes that he should have the last bow and my Puck doesn't really care, but I don't want to separate Bottom from the mechanicals, but the mechanicals as a whole are behind the lovers...and I refuse to do a straight ensemble only bow, I don't think that's fair.  So I am waffling day to day. I have to block the call next week, and I'm sure I'll have it solidly sorted out in my head by then, but right now I'd love to hear everyone's take on it...except my cast's:  I refuse to open that can of worms!  But it is interesting, I've NEVER had this problem before...it's all those dang plot lines!  Maybe I'm just overthinking it.

The joke is that Bottom BELIEVES he's the lead. To modify tristanrobin's suggestion, have the Mechanicals bow as a group like you've planned, but as they retreat to the sides, Bottom remains, trying to hog a couple more bows on his own.   The Mechanicals quickly return to drag him away and the curtain call can continue as writ.