play to

1. To perform (something) in front of a specific audience. It was disheartening playing to only a handful of people, but we still got up on the stage and did our best. I still can't believe we played to a sold-out stadium on our very first live performance! I bring my guitar around to the local retirement community every Saturday and play to the old folks there for a couple hours.

2. To perform (something) with a specific audience or portion of the audience in mind. The actor became more and more exaggerated in his slapstick, clearly playing to the younger people in the audience who were responding more to the physical comedy. The singer-songwriter seemed to purposefully eschew the songs that propelled her to mainstream success, instead playing to those who appreciated her earlier, most experimental music.

play to someone or something

1. to perform something for someone or a group. The cast played to one of their classmates who was confined to the hospital. Gerald Watson will play to a small gathering of wealthy socialites this Saturday evening.

2. to aim one's performance only toward a particular person, group, or a particular taste. The comedian was playing only to the juveniles in the audience. It was clear that she was playing to the people in the cheaper seats.

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释义	play to play to 1. To perform (something) in front of a specific audience. It was disheartening playing to only a handful of people, but we still got up on the stage and did our best. I still can't believe we played to a sold-out stadium on our very first live performance! I bring my guitar around to the local retirement community every Saturday and play to the old folks there for a couple hours. 2. To perform (something) with a specific audience or portion of the audience in mind. The actor became more and more exaggerated in his slapstick, clearly playing to the younger people in the audience who were responding more to the physical comedy. The singer-songwriter seemed to purposefully eschew the songs that propelled her to mainstream success, instead playing to those who appreciated her earlier, most experimental music. See also: play Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. play to someone or something 1. to perform something for someone or a group. The cast played to one of their classmates who was confined to the hospital. Gerald Watson will play to a small gathering of wealthy socialites this Saturday evening. 2. to aim one's performance only toward a particular person, group, or a particular taste. The comedian was playing only to the juveniles in the audience. It was clear that she was playing to the people in the cheaper seats. See also: play McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: by the handful eat at the Y handful mills of the gods grind slowly mills of the gods grind slowly(, but they grind exceedingly fine) exceedingly the mills of God grind slowly(, but they grind exceedingly fine) play to the gallery play to the gallery, to dive a muff References in classic literature All which evils, and many more that I say nothing of, would be removed if there were some intelligent and sensible person at the capital to examine all plays before they were acted, not only those produced in the capital itself, but all that were intended to be acted in Spain; without whose approval, seal, and signature, no local magistracy should allow any play to be acted. Don Quixote If no one follows the QB, he will signal our coach by slapping his heel, which means "Run the Boot!" Our 'Boot Left' complementing the counter-trey right is termed 'Black'--one simple term defines the entire play to our players. Boots, shovels & reverses: complements of the counter-trey Therefore, therapists may need to guide the child to problem resolution and consider the possibility of moving from more to less directive play to ease the child into the Axlinian growth process (Carmichael, 1991). Using Axline's eight principles of play therapy with Mexican-American children Bobby got Lorraine's play to Philip, and Philip wanted to produce it, and he passed it to Sidney. Lloyd Richards: reminiscence of a theatre life and beyond Griffin argues that the combined suppression and evolution of medieval dramatic forms contributed in the English saint play to a kind of historical drama in which "the sense of commemoration takes precedence over the sense of presence (22), analogous to the Protestant conception of the eucharist that supplanted the Catholic conception in Reformation England. Playing the Past: Approaches to English Historical Drama 1385-1600. Auburn also sent copies of the play to other mathematicians, including Jean E. Drama in numbers: putting a passion for mathematics on stage His play al-Miftah (The Key) is the only Iraqi play to be translated into English; it is included in Modern Arabic Drama: An Anthology, which appeared in 1995.(2) The people's theater of Yusuf al-Ani Children use this type of play to experiment with social roles, and to determine what is acceptable and what is not. Developing social skills among campers For example, with less than a minute to go before the half with the ball on the offense's end, most offensive coaches will call a draw play to see what happens. Time related defenses: the 4-minute, 2-minute, and prevent defenses Before this study, the playwright would have read the play to the assembled company, so that the actors had some sense of the whole work, but private study meant that the play appeared to the actor much more as an individual part. The State of the Shakespeare Industry. (Review Essay) The Ethiopian Art Players, who took the play to Broadway, were seeking black playwrights; Du Bois put them in touch with Richardson. Willis Richardson, Forgotten Pioneer of African-American Drama "In chess and checkers, you can go to a tournament, pay the entry fee, and play to see how good the program is. Playing your cards right: poker comes out of the back room and into the computer science lab If the opponent tries to kick him out on the QB mesh play, he will go under the guard and spill the play to Sam. Defensing the shotgun run game She makes a convincing case for preferring the early quarto version of the play to the folio version for both editing and staging purposes. Ben Jonson, Revisited. (Review Essay) Heard: Does choosing your actors give you confidence in what the actor says, or in the suggestions that he or she may have in order to help mold and craft the play to its final production? August Wilson on Playwriting: An Interview
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