act call
Americannoun
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Also called act warning. a call or order from the stage manager summoning performers onstage for the beginning of a performance or act.
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a signal summoning the audience to their seats for the beginning of a performance or act.
Example Sentences
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The run-through of that play with in the play gives Molnar's own a rousingly hilarious third act, call it tipsy Pirandello.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the act call came, and I rose to go, a man stopped at the door and said to him: "What shall it be to-night, Colonel?"
From The Delicious Vice by Allison, Young Ewing
It was a brave act, call it what else you will.
From Frank on a Gun-Boat by Castlemon, Harry
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