How does Baker (1919, Chapter X) say a play is tested against an audience before and after production (readings, rehearsal, tryouts, revision after performance)?
1919 stage practice. Chapter X contains no procedure for readings, tryouts or preview audiences (0 hits for 'tryout', 'try-out', 'preview', 'out of town' in the chapter; 0 for tryout terms in the whole text; 'readings' by others are not described). What it does give is a sequence and four signal sources. Sequence: a first draft for clearness; a re-writing for characterization and dialogue; a later re-writing shaped for the intended public; a detached consideration 'before it is tried on the stage'. Signal sources: rehearsal (Kismet: actor and author judged that sympathy for Hajji would be lost), performance reaction (Kismet torture scene too horrible 'when acted'; Dumas fils's first-night 'dissenting cries'; the German Belinda's silence), revivals of old successes (taste drift), and the record of trade predictions overturned. His warning: changes left to after production may come too late.
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