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A Doll's House ( play by Henrik Ibsen )
A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play ( Mars Chocolate advertising slogan )
A Night At The
Opera
( Marx Brothers movie )
A Streetcar Named Desire ( Marlon Brando movie )
A class
act
Act
of God
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Act
out
Act
the fool
Act
the giddy goat
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Act
the part
Act
up
Act
white
Act
your age
Action replay
Address the ball ( golfing term denoting readiness to play )
All
Fun
And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye ( Christopher Brookmyer book )
All the
fun
of the fair
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
All's Well, That Ends Well
An Ideal Husband ( play by Oscar Wilde )
And The Band
Played
On ( Randy Shilts book )
And the band
played
on
Angel Cups ( Nickname of soap
character
Marcy Rhoades )
Angels in America ( play by Tony Kushner )
Architecture is
music
frozen in time ( Friedrich von Schelling quotation )
As
playful
as a kitten
Balancing
act
Bat Masterson ( Nickname of American western
character
William Barclay Masterson )
Be a good
sport
Billy Liar ( Novel and play by Keith Waterhouse and Tom Courtenay / Julie Christie movie )
Blondes have more
fun
Blow off the
stage
Break a leg
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Bring your A game (
perform
to your best ability )
Brum brum ( child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle )
Bugger about
Bundle of
fun
Buy
Opera
today And make this banner go away (
Opera
advertising slogan )
Buy a bucket of chicken and have a barrel of
fun
( Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan )
Call of Duty ( video game title )
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof ( play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie )
Caught in the
act
Character
assassination
Character
driven fiction
Chicago
piano
Child's play
Childhood
friend
Childhood
memories
Childhood
sweetheart
Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
Chips With Everything ( Arnold Wesker play )
Class
act
Clean up your
act
Close of play
Come out and play
Contact
sport
Couldn't
act
his way out of a paper bag
Death of a Salesman ( play by Arthur Miller )
Desperate Dan ( a cowboy strongman
character
in the British comic The Dandy )
Desperate Housewives ( 2004 comedy
drama
television series )
Dick around
Do a disappearing
act
Do you know the piano's on my foot?
Don't play the innocent
Don't put your daughter on the
stage
Mrs Worthington
Don't shoot the
piano
player
Double
act
Double your pleasure, double your
fun
( Wrigley's Doublemint Chewing Gum advertising slogan )
Drama
documentary
Ear for
music
Elevator
music
Everything to play for
Exit
stage
left
Face the
music
Fair play
Fair play to you
Follow suit
Food, Folks and
Fun
( McDonald's advertising slogan )
Fool around
Foot in the bucket ( A baseball expression meaning to
act
timidly or cowardly )
Fun
Fun
Fun
( The Beach Boys song )
Fun
With Dick And Jane ( Jane Fonda movie )
Fun
and games
Games people play
Get in on the
act
Get your
act
together
Getting there is half the
fun
( Cunard Line advertising slogan )
Girls Just Want To Have
Fun
( Cyndi Lauper song )
Go and play in the traffic
Good clean
fun
Good
sport
Goof around
Goof off
Grand Theft Auto ( video game title )
Half the
fun
is getting there ( Olympic Airways advertising slogan )
Hard
act
to follow
Have
fun
He will never play the
piano
again
Hedda Gabler ( play by Henrik Ibsen )
High
tragedy
High wire
act
Horse around
Horse play
Horsing around
House
music
How does that play in Peoria?
Human Rights
Act
I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside ( British
Music
Hall song )
I took my harp to the party but no one asked me to play
If
music
be the food of love, play on ( from Twelth Night by Shakespeare )
In on the
act
In play
Instant replay
It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play ( Beatles song lyric )
It's all
fun
and games until somebody gets hurt
It's all good clean
fun
It's good to play together ( Microsoft Xbox advertising slogan )
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game
Jerk around
Juno and the Paycock ( play by Sean O'Casey )
Kid n' Play ( Nickname of Kevin Martin )
Kidding around
Kitchen sink
drama
Lady Windermere's Fan ( play by Oscar Wilde )
Lark about
Let's face the
music
and dance
Level playing field
Live in your world, play in ours ( Sony advertising slogan )
Long Day's Journey into Night ( play by Eugene O'Neil )
Love play
Make Your Own Kind Of
Music
( Mama Cass Elliot song )
Make a play for
Make
fun
of
Make great play of
Man and Superman ( play by George Bernard Shaw )
Mario Kart ( video game title )
Mendoza line ( A baseball expression denoting a line marking a very poor
performance
)
Mess around
Monkey around
Mother Courage ( play by Bertolt Brecht )
Mourning Becomes Electra ( play by Eugene O'Neill )
Muck about
Music
Box ( Mariah Carey album )
Music
City ( Nickname of Nashville Tennessee )
Music
has charms to soothe the savage breast
Music
is art. Muzak is science ( Muzak Corporation advertising slogan )
Music
to my ears
No music, no life ( Tower Records advertising slogan )
Not playing with a full deck
O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo ( from the play by Shakespeare )
Oh, what
fun
Opening night ( the first night of a theatrical
performance
)
Out of
character
Peak
performance
Phone it in (
perform
an
act
in an uncommitted disinterested manner )
Play Cupid
Play God
Play Misty For Me ( Clint Eastwood movie )
Play a blinder
Play a waiting game
Play around
Play ball
Play both ends against the middle
Play by ear
Play by play
Play by the rules
Play catch up
Play catchup
Play chicken
Play dead
Play devil's advocate
Play dirty
Play ducks and drakes
Play fast and loose
Play favorites
Play favourites
Play for keeps
Play for time
Play from the tips
Play gooseberry
Play hard to get
Play hardball ( A baseball expression meaning to be or
act
tough or aggressive )
Play havoc with
Play hell
Play hide the sausage
Play hookey
Play it again Sam
Play it again, Sam ( New York State Lottery advertising slogan )
Play it by the book
Play it cool
Play it for laughs
Play it safe
Play kissy face
Play off
Play possum
Play safe
Play second fiddle
Play silly buggers
Play softball ( A baseball expression meaning to ask easy questions )
Play the field ( - indulge in a series of sexual relationships )
Play the fool
Play the game
Play the old soldier
Play the percentage game
Play the race card
Play the white man
Play to win
Play with fire
Play within a play
Play your cards right
Play your part
Play yourself in
Playboy of the Western World ( play by John Millington Synge )
Played
for a fool
Playing to the gallery
Plug and play
Poke
fun
Popular
music
Put on an
act
Put the
fun
back into driving ( Vauxhall Motors advertising slogan )
Quality time
Race against the clock
Race proven
performance
( Kumho Tires advertising slogan )
Random
act
of kindness
Read the riot
act
Roll over and play dead
Roll up, roll up, all the
fun
of the fair
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead ( play by Tom Stoppard )
Rough and tumble
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
School for scandal
Second
childhood
Set the
stage
She Stoops to Conquer ( play by Oliver Goldsmith )
Sister
Act
( Whoopie Goldberg movie )
Some Nights (
fun
song )
Sonic the Hedgehog ( video game title )
Stage
door Johnny
Star of
stage
and screen
Strike up the band
Super Mario Brothers ( video game title )
Sweet
Music
( Nickname of Frank Viola )
Sword play
Sydney
Opera
House ( tourist attraction in Australia )
Take centre
stage
Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing ( ABBA lyric )
The Admirable Crichton ( Play by J M Barrie and nickname of James Crichton )
The Beggar's
Opera
The Boys in the Band ( play by Mart Crowley )
The Buddha of Suburbia
The Cherry Orchard ( play by Anton Chekhov )
The Devil's Disciple ( Bernard Shaw play and Burt Lancaster movie )
The Ginger Man ( play by JP Donleavy )
The Glass Menagerie ( play by Tennessee Williams )
The Iceman Cometh ( play by Eugene O'Neill )
The Importance of Being Ernest ( play by Oscar Wilde )
The Plough and the Stars ( play by Sean O'Casey )
The Quare Fellow ( play by Brendan Behan )
The Scottish play
The Sims ( video game title )
The Sound Of
Music
( Julie Andrews movie )
The West Coast Sound ( name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys )
The
act
you've known for all these years ( Beatles song lyric )
The ball is in your court
The best way to get
music
out of your system ( Philips advertising slogan )
The cat who doesn't
act
finicky soon loses control of his owner ( 9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan )
The
fun
develops instantly ( Polaroid advertising slogan )
The greatest
tragedy
is indifference ( Red Cross advertising slogan )
The little dog laughed to see such
fun
The
music
of the spheres
The
play's
the thing
The
sport
of kings
The
stage
is set
There's many a good tune
played
on an old fiddle
There's many a good tune
played
on an old
piano
Think global,
act
local
Think globally,
act
locally ( Friends of the Earth advertising slogan )
Threepenny
Opera
( play by Bertolt Brecht )
Time flies when you are having
fun