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afterpiece
Originally performed as an afterpiece to Tom Taylor's comedy Babes and Beetles.
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This was an afterpiece which came at the end of a play.
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A piece that began the performance was called a curtain raiser, and one that ended the performance was called an afterpiece.
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This six-act behemoth also set an important precedent by being the first show on Broadway to stand on its own, without the performance of other entertainments or any afterpiece.
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- A brief dramatic piece (usually comic) presented after a play
- An afterpiece is a short, usually humorous one-act playlet or musical work following the main attraction, the full-length play, and concluding the theatrical evening. This short comedy, farce, opera or pantomime was a popular theatrical form in the 18th and 19th centuries. ...
- A short entertainment, usually a song or dance, performed at the conclusion of a play.
- In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century theater, an entertainment staged after the main play.
