afterpiece

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Their antics earned the notice of Billboard magazine, whose reviewer wrote, “Martin and Lewis do an afterpiece that has all the makings of a sock act,” using showbiz slang for a successful show.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2017

Tales My Father Taught Me, the latest entry in this sibling revelry, is an afterpiece entirely devoted to his patrician papa.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unknowingly, he has already been betrayed by a Judas among his disciples who, in an afterpiece to the fable, tries to free himself of the ownership and taint of the 30 pieces of silver.

From Time Magazine Archive

After a brief interval for refreshments, liberally proffered, a comic afterpiece, "Mr. Nightingale's Diary," was given with far greater spirit.

From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Greeley, Horace

These Mimes were originally represented as a sort of afterpiece, or interlude to the regular dramas, and were intended to fill up the blank which had been left by omission of the Chorus.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John