Definition of dress rehearsal in US English:
dress rehearsal
nounˈdres rəˈˌhərsəlˈdrɛs rəˈˌhərsəl
The final rehearsal of a live show, in which everything is done as it would be in a real performance.
Example sentencesExamples
- Step four involves creating in your mind an imaginary dress rehearsal that includes calm, confident feelings and a peak performance.
- Depending on the circumstances, the celebrity and their styling team will have a full dress rehearsal to make sure that everything works well together.
- There will be an open dress rehearsal on March 3 and performances on March 4 and 5.
- Are they available for the dress rehearsal and performances?
- Indeed, at the dress rehearsal she had given an understated yet intense performance (I was watching her eyes).
- Rehearsals have been going on for a number of weeks and there will be a final, four-hour dress rehearsal on Tuesday.
- This can be arranged through the career center and will be a valuable dress rehearsal for the real interview.
- The final dress rehearsal went smoothly the afternoon before the show.
- The final dress rehearsal for Friday night's Olympic opening ceremony was held this evening.
- Other than that, not much work was done in terms of rehearsals, particularly the dress rehearsal.
- It feels like every gig I've ever been to up to this point has been a mere dress rehearsal for the real thing.
- Guards with metal detectors checked out guests entering both the dress rehearsal and the live broadcast.
- It is common for a public audience to be invited to the final dress rehearsal of an opera.
- We got into costume and had a bit of a dress rehearsal before going onstage at 8pm for the first-round song.
- We're putting the finishing touches on everything, preparing for our dress rehearsal April 9th.
- And I'll admit, that final dress rehearsal triggered every emotion in my body.
- So the final dress rehearsal passed without any major mishaps.
- In Act One the cast stop and start their way through their final technical / dress rehearsal.
- This evening I'm off to the final dress rehearsal in advance of tomorrows grand finale.
- Oddly enough I have no recollection of the evening of the performance, only of the dress rehearsal, in which hardly any of the 40-odd characters knew their lines, or what was going on.