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Italian rehearsal en · NOUN

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1. A rehearsal where the actors read their lines at high speed, without the accompanying acting.
   • I have never been a fan of the Italian rehearsal, where actors run lines at double time. Saying lines without thinking is a pitfall actors need to avoid, not seek out. 2011, William B. Davis, Where There's Smoke...: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, a Memoir:

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