Command performance
Appearance
Command performance is an occasion that one is obliged to attend, as in My boss's invitations to dinner are always a command performance. This term originally (late 1800s) denoted a theatrical or musical performance presented at the behest of a sovereign or head of state. By the 1930s it was also used figuratively for any more or less obligatory occasion or performance.
Command performance may refer to:
- Royal Command Performance, any theatrical or musical performance requested by a monarch
- Royal Variety Performance, an annual charity performance before the monarch in Britain
- Command Performance (1937 film), a 1937 film starring Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer
- Command Performance (2009 film), a 2009 film starring Dolph Lundgren and Melissa Smith