dress rehearsal

Japanese: dress rehearsal(英語表記)dressrehearsal
dress rehearsal

...The custom of calling this a génépro comes from the German word Generalprobe. In French it is called répétition générale, and in the UK and the US it is roughly equivalent to the dress rehearsal. This system was introduced to Japan after the opening of the Imperial Theater in 1911 (Meiji 44), that is, after the modern era when the country was strongly influenced by Western theater, and it has been particularly important in the new theater world.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…これをゲネプロとも言う習慣はドイツ語のゲネラルプローベGeneralprobeに由来する。フランス語ではこれをレペティシヨン・ジェネラールrépétition généraleといい,英米ではドレス・リハーサルdress rehearsalとよばれるものがほぼこれに相当する。この制度が日本に移入されたのは1911年(明治44)の帝国劇場開場以後,つまりは西欧演劇の影響を強く受けた近代以降のことであり,新劇界などではとりわけ重視されてきた。…

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