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n. (context idiomatic English) Used to address an audience.
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"Ladies and Gentlemen" is the first single from Saliva's fifth studio album Blood Stained Love Story. The song peaked at number 2 on the US Mainstream Rock chart, and is also the band's best-selling single, being certified Gold by the RIAA in 2010. The song is one of the heavier cuts of the album, and is a nu metal song. The music video was released on March 19, 2007.
Ladies and Gentlemen is a play by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht. The courtroom drama, inspired by a Hungarian play Twelve in a Box by Ladislaus Bush-Fekete, centers on the relationship that develops between two sequestered jurors, Miss Scott and Mr. Campbell, during a lengthy murder trial.
The play premiered in Santa Barbara, then ran for two weeks each in San Francisco and Los Angeles, with Helen Hayes and Herbert Marshall in the lead roles. It marked Hayes' return to the stage three years after her lengthy run in Victoria Regina.
The Broadway production was produced by Gilbert Miller and co-directed by MacArthur and Lewis Allen. The scenic design was by Boris Aronson. It opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 17, 1939 and closed on January 13, 1940 after running for 105 performances.
The play was filmed as Perfect Strangers in 1950.
Ladies and Gentlemen is the second album by Lou Bega, released in 2001.
Ladies and gentlemen is a salutation used in the field of entertainment, sports and theater since the mid-19th century vaudeville era. It is intended to raise the audiences expectations of a good performance and, to this end, is often followed by an announcement of the names of the performers, a description of what sort of act they are to perform, or an often hyperbolic series of accolades accorded to the act.
The motivation behind the term is to make the audience feel as if they have paid a substantial amount for the privilege of witnessing the event in question, and thus raise their expectations for what is to come.
"Ladies and gentlemen" is a common salutation used in formal speeches and other public addresses. Ladies and Gentlemen may also refer to:
Ladies and Gentlemen is the third studio album by American-Australian singer Marcia Hines. Ladies and Gentlemen peaked at No. 6 in Australia and produced two top ten singles, including " You", which peaked at No. 2 and remains Hines' highest charting single.
Usage examples of "ladies and gentlemen".
The French ambassador was there, and a foreign prince of the blood who had of late become a frequent visitor of hers, and many brilliant ladies and gentlemen.
Parties of ladies and gentlemen have come to Boughton from a distance of a hundred and fifty miles, to visit the scene of that fatal affray, and stroke on the back the horse of the “.
Ryan got the nod, and tottered away with the other old ladies and gentlemen.
Silence being at length restored, Captain P-- went on the stage and thus addressed the audience: 'Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Laura begs to offer her humble apologies for the slip of the tongue of which she was guilty and promises not to offend in future, if you will allow the piece to proceed.