drop scene

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The drop scene was used in the city’s only theater in the early 1800s to entertain audiences between shows in the early days of stage performances in New England.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2019

The drop scene was used in the city’s only theater in the early 1800s to entertain audiences between shows.

From Washington Times • Nov. 13, 2019

No less than thirty-five islands, like beauty spots of a fairy "drop scene," bedeck the silver sheen of its surface.

From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Praeger, Robert Lloyd

The arrangement is somewhat like that followed in many modern melodramas, where a scene not requiring properties is acted in front of a drop scene while scenery is being set behind.

From An Introduction to Shakespeare by MacCracken, H. N.

Behind them were the clumps of cypress trees which framed a vista of endless wooden garden and formed their drop scene.

From Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches by Baring, Maurice