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At concerts it is reasonably common for the audience to call for an encore. The performers will then pick up their instruments and perform a little extra piece (as opposed to pop concerts where, bizarrely, the band will save their one big hit for the encore).
This idea is that this practice should
be extended into the theatre. If the play was especially good, the audience might call for an encore and the actors would have to carry on the action of the play beyond the point envisaged by the playwright, either through improvisation or by preparing this in advance. For some plays this could be hard; E.g. King Lear - most of the characters in the play are dead by the end, so the encore would have to explore the relationships between the characters in the afterlife. For others, like Uncle Vanya (which I saw last night, by the way), the characters would sit around as winter set in, getting drunk on vodka.
Actually this isn't a very good idea, but you can't deny that it's halfbaked.
ESPN Classic
http://espn.go.com/classic/schedule/s/
Per hippo's anno [krelnik, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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I won't bone this idea because in certain situations it
could work. On the whole though I think it could be quite
nasty and spoil the effect of the production. |
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I was taken to a Boney M concert not long ago and the
crowd was so enthusiastic that they ended up performing
*eight* encores. It was a lot of fun (and Boney M are not
daggy). |
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you are wrong [hippo] its a very good idea. |
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with something like the mousetrap - which I have never seen - I imagine some flaw in the detective's deduction might go on to reveal a completely different villain in the encore. |
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[madradish] I'm now humming "Brown girl in the ring" thanks to you.
[TwoSheds], you know that there's a whole new idea in your annotation: "Choreagraphed Exhibition Football Matches", where the entire match is planned and choreagraphed as carefuly as a ballet - fans would go, not to see who wins, but to see beautiful football. |
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Maybe you're right [DeuxHangars], but I bet there'd be
people who'd pay to see, for example, a reenactment of
the 1966 World Cup final. |
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Actually they have a whole TV channel devoted that here in the U.S., hippo. It's called "ESPN Classic" (ESPN and ESPN2 being the main sports channels here). They don't re-enact the games, just replay the broadcast. |
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//An encore might be a cue to perform an alternative or different ending // |
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further to a previous discussion in this category. I directed a play which had alternative endings. we called it dramocracy. one night we were requested to play the alternate too. which we did. sorry, a little baked. |
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In the case of King Lear, in which most characters are
defunct and the final curtain, the cast could perform a
"PREQUEL" |
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There's generally an encore after a musical, does that count? |
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