Overtures
Shows
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Entr'actes (sometimes spelled "Entr'act") for musicals were often written in a similar medley style, and could be found in musicals that otherwise had no overture; cast recordings of shows often substituted them for the actual overtures.
Source: Medley Overture - Medley Overture: With theatre orchestras getting smaller, and audiences and directors more impatient for shows to start, full-scale overtures have been relegated mostly to revivals of classic shows and throwbacks set in the 1920s or 1930s.
Source: Discredited Trope -
It shows most clearly in Medusa's route, unsurprisingly, but a passing comment in Hades's route indicates that she's bisexual in general and would welcome romantic overtures from Persephone if she weren't already nursing a fierce attraction to Hades.
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