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
The overture ends, the drop scene rises, and there is the sea-shore, a long curling bay: the sea heaving under the moon, and breaking upon the beach, and rolling the surf down—the p. 103stage!
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis
We had a drop scene representing the Lower Lake of Killarney.
From The Life Story of an Old Rebel by Denvir, John
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.