dress rehearsal
noun
1
: a full rehearsal (as of a play) in costume and with stage properties shortly before the first performance
2
: a practice exercise for something to come : dry run
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But, in the middle of dress rehearsal, one of the bumpers had fallen off.
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Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
Something inexplicable can happen at dress rehearsal and things can fall flat, or it can get cut for time.
—Rachel Dratch, TIME, 12 Feb. 2025
If a sketch had gone terribly wrong live, sometimes the dress rehearsal version was substituted in with no one being the wiser.
—Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025
Most scripts come in on Wednesday, and everything needs to be built and ready to go for the Saturday afternoon run-through — or, at the absolute latest, for the dress rehearsal at 8 p.m.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025
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Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
Something inexplicable can happen at dress rehearsal and things can fall flat, or it can get cut for time.
—Rachel Dratch, TIME, 12 Feb. 2025
If a sketch had gone terribly wrong live, sometimes the dress rehearsal version was substituted in with no one being the wiser.
—Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025
Most scripts come in on Wednesday, and everything needs to be built and ready to go for the Saturday afternoon run-through — or, at the absolute latest, for the dress rehearsal at 8 p.m.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025
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“Dress rehearsal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dress%20rehearsal. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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