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

Stock plays were always followed by an afterpiece, but the afterpiece was in most cases omitted during the first run of a new play.

From Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch by Dempster, George

If all the marked lines were omitted, it is small wonder that this afterpiece was performed only once.

From The Covent Garden Theatre, or Pasquin Turn'd Drawcansir by Macklin, Charles