Amateur dramatics is the performance of plays or musical theater, often to high standards, but lacking the budgets of professional West End or Broadway performances.

The live performances for Hole's 1994 and 1995 tours became notorious in the media due to Love's fraught emotional state, with Love often altering hurtful song lyrics toward herself, dedicating songs to Cobain and Pfaff, provoking fans, throwing guitars into the audience, and breaking into screaming fits onstage.

The result of this evolution has created a localized form of hip hop, often showcasing native dialectic lyrical performances and traditional garbs.

Local government often sponsors and promotes performances during tourist seasons, and revives lost traditions.

They were more often used as rhythm instruments in ensembles than as solo instruments, and can often be seen in that role in early music performances.

Frequently, the “ special effects ” would be too realistic and often an audience member would faint and / or vomit during performances.

Specifically, within the medieval Oyo Empire of present day southwestern Nigeria and Benin, separate guilds developed for professional dancers, mask carvers, and musicians associated with egungun ancestral masquerade performances often regarded as the predecessor to the traveling Alarinjo theatre.

At home, they are expected to render luster to various occasions by their presence, such as by attending artistic or sports performances or competitions, expositions, celebrations, military parades and remembrances, prominent funerals, visiting parts of the country, enterprises, care facilities ( often in a theatrical honor box, on a platform, on the front row, at the honours table etc.

In China, performances of Hamlet often have political significance: Gu Wuwei's 1916 The Usurper of State Power, an amalgam of Hamlet and Macbeth, was an attack on Yuan Shikai's attempt to overthrow the republic.

Booth's stage performances were often characterized by his contemporaries as acrobatic and intensely physical, leaping upon the stage and gesturing with passion.

Kerosene is often used in the entertainment industry for fire performances, such as fire breathing, fire juggling or poi, and fire dancing.

These performances were intended as works of a new art form combining sculpture, dance, and music or sound, often with audience participation.

She seemed especially kind compared to fellow judge Simon Cowell, who was often blunt in his appraisals of the contestants ' performances.

It hosts mainly modern experimental off-theatre performances, often taking place on squares and other public spaces.

In his work Political Style, Robert Hariman claims, " Furthermore, questions of freedom, equality, and justice often are raised and addressed through performances ranging from debates to demonstrations without loss of moral content ".

Orbison often excused his motionless performances by saying that his songs did not allow instrumental sections so he could move or dance on stage, although songs like " Mean Woman Blues " did offer that.

Singer Darby Crash often arrived onstage nearly incoherent from drugs, singing everywhere but into the microphone and taunting the audience between songs, yet nevertheless, delivering intense theatrical and increasingly musical performances.

The band was close to a major label contract, but often alienated label representatives by intentionally performing badly in concert ; their 1985 live album, The Shit Hits the Fans, was an example of their concert performances at the time.

He often criticised Carry On films, his own performances and those of others, considering them beneath him.

In live performances, the piano solos often directly quoted from Romantic classical works for piano, such as the Beethoven and Mozart snippets in much of the late ' 70s-early ' 80s stage shows.

However, athletes ' performances are often tallied together by country at international championships, and in the case of cross country the finishing times of the top athletes from each team or country are combined to declare a team victor.

* Show choirs, in which the members sing and dance, often in performances somewhat like musicals

Zeffirelli also collaborated often with Dame Joan Sutherland, designing and directing her performances of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in 1959 amongst others.

All of Ella Fitzgerald's scat performances of " How High the Moon ", for instance, use the same tempo, begin with a chorus of a straight reading of the lyric, move to a " specialty chorus " introducing the scat chorus, and then the scat itself.

However, it did not begin performances on a regular basis until 1909.

His performances begin with solo alap, jor, and jhala ( introduction and performances with pulse and rapid pulse ) influenced by the slow and serious dhrupad genre, followed by a section with tabla accompaniment featuring compositions associated with the prevalent khyal style.

After artistic experimentation with rap via Timbaland, critical praise toward her 2010 string of a cappella performances of soul music classics, and venturing into reality television with her family, Norwood revealed her intentions to begin working heavily on her sixth studio album Two Eleven.

It ended its run at the King's Road Theatre on 31 March 1979 before transferring to the Comedy Theatre ( now the Harold Pinter Theatre ) to begin performances on 6 April 1979.

* May 14-The re-organized Admiral's Men begin performances with Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta.

It's astonishing to see a film begin this brilliantly only to torpedo itself in its final hour ," but went on to say that the film " was saved from its worst, most reductive ideas by the intimacy of the performances and the deeply felt distress signals given off by the cast ".

In 1945, after World War II, the LTS was one of the first theatres in West Germany to begin putting on performances again.

The musical will begin performances in San Francisco on May 18, 2011 at the American Conservatory Theater, where Shears and Garden are collaborating with a creative team that includes playwright Jeff Whitty and director Jason Moore, of the Tony-Award winning musical Avenue Q.

In episode five, Simpson's backing band is formed and they begin to rehearse for live performances, but Simpson begins to have problems with her vocal cords ; this makes it difficult for her to sing and causes her a great deal of anxiety.

Sword-fencing demonstrations and performances often begin with a pre-fight war dance in which the swordsman spins one or two swords very close to the body without cutting themselves.

On most days performances begin around noon and end at midnight.

The bar serves full meals from one and a half hours before performances begin and remains open for light refreshments until midnight.

Many Drum Corps performances begin with a Prologue which is usually linked into one of the main tunes that the corps is playing in the show.

After a year away from the show and Doctor Dillamond, Parker returned to begin performances on the Second National US Tour, marking his fourth North American production.

( There is a Kagura village in Midori town called Kaguramonzentojimura where various Kagura performances and competitions begin in August and last until December.

Originally, the musical was scheduled to begin performances on Broadway February 2, 2009 at the Lyceum Theatre with an official opening on February 26, 2009 but the show's Broadway run was postponed due to the economic turmoil in the US and to focus on the future of the musical.

The arghul, ( يرغول ) also known as the yarghoul, is commonly used in solos, often accompanied by singers, that begin dabke performances.

She has fulfilled her dream of playing serious, dramatic roles, but she cuts off contact with Billy and the old comedy troupe, and soon becomes so conceited that her boring performances begin to drive away her public.

The first performances were to begin in Atlanta, Georgia, yet Pepsi officials objected as the city was home to rival drinks company Coca-Cola.