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make-up, and scenes are done over and over until done right. Stage lighting is also used, which often is not the case in regular rehearsals. Indeed, to use one of your examples, if the performance calls for actually drinking a glass of water on stage, the actors will do it in a dress rehearsal. The idea is to be as close to an actual performance as possible (the company will sometimes invite an audience to be there, if it's important to take audience reaction into account, for example in pacing comedies to account for when the audience bursts into long and loud laughter). Films and television shows are often shot out of order, on different locales, etc. so you only have rehearsals for certain scenes. Scenes that include costly special effects never go through a full "dress rehearsal". The other difference is that the rehearsals are also filmed and may be used in the final version if they are better than the actual performance.--
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Did the audience mostly believe that Holmes actually died and wouldn't be brought back? If so, that's good enough. I think there's a big difference between a periodic comic or TV series that's never going to kill off the superhero (or else the comic would have no purpose), and a book that has no
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Thanks. So, in a theater dress rehearsal, let's say that the scene calls for something to be ruined or destroyed or to cause some "damage". Will this action still be performed, or will it simply be "faked" for the dress rehearsal? Some examples of what I mean might be: an actor throws a pie in
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Dress rehearsals are mainly used in live theater. The idea is to go through the whole play, in costume, in one go, just as if it was performed in front of a paying audience, in order to work out the last few kinks.Most rehearsals are not in costume (those are expensive and often fragile) or stage
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Sorry to change the question midway through, but I'm not looking for comics where the audience knows the hero will be brought back and "win" some time in the future. The hero only counts as "defeated" if there's no possibility of coming back to life or winning in the future.
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It wasn't there originally: the person asking should note that it is better to clarify the question with a further post than alter the question after it has been asked and a reply received.
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