Sentence examples for commercial play from inspiring English sources

"August" became the rare commercial play on Broadway to recoup its investment by the season's end.

And, he adds, this is a public service offering rather than a commercial play: advertising revenue tends to dry up around December 20.

A Wilson tale takes about as long as a baseball game, which is to say a good deal longer than the average commercial play.

By comparison, she estimates that the same production would cost about $2.8 million to mount on Broadway — the standard amount for a commercial play production — and an additional $260,000 or so to run each week.

And the occasional forays of the parent studios into nonblockbuster, grown-up entertainment — earnest, sophisticated genre fare like "Michael Clayton," which 40 years ago would have been a safely commercial play rather than an awards-season gamble — are likely to grow rarer.

Evaluation of a shale gas formation is necessary to have a productive and commercial play.

With that, as happens every Monday night when that commercial plays, people climbed to their feet and danced.

A commercial plays up the brand's Belgian heritage by using the actor David Suchet — who portrayed Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's Belgian detective — as the voice-over announcer.

BERLIN — In a commercial playing before movies in German theaters, a group of scruffy men in a bar are debating the best soccer player ever.

It is thought that the boys' songs in commercial plays were often set pieces, drawn from a repertoire of music suitable to a variety of dramatic situations.

The commercial plays on the public perception that the hirsute styles of the 1960s and '70s have decidedly gone out of fashion.