Command performance
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 [1].
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
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- ^ command performance. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Retrieved August 02, 2011, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/command performance