- - sell the scene, say
- - Overdo the role
- - turn up the melodrama
- - Used to express tone in a video game
- - Play to the back row
- - Play to the rafters
- - Tread the boards broadly
- - Turn on the dramatics
- - Act the drama queen
- - Tear a passion to tatters
- - Play to the back of the room
- - Be over the top, while acting
- - Act the wrong way?
- - Tread the boards heavily
- - Pour on the theatrics
- - Hog the spotlight
- - Go over the top, on stage
- - Go over the top on Broadway
- - Act the ham in "Hamlet"
- - Turn on the waterworks, maybe
- - Try to steal the scene, maybe
- - Try to out-ham a ham
- - Steal the show, in a bad way
- - Steal the scene, say
- - Show feels, so to speak
- - Sell the scene
- - Really overdo the acting
- - Put a little extra into the part
- - Push the envelope, theatrically
- - Play without restraint
- - Play too much, say
- - Play too broadly, on stage
- - Play to the peanut gallery
- - Play to the last row
- - Play to the back row and then some
- - Play to the back of the theater
- - Play to the back of the audience
- - Play the Old Vic
- - Play the drama queen
- - Play much too broadly on stage
- - Play it to the hilt
- - Play a role none too subtly
- - Overdo the stage directions
- - Overdo the drama.
- - Overdo it on the theater stage
- - Overdo it on the stage
- - Overact on the stage
- - Overact (or, fun fact, the word for narrating an action over text, like *jumps for joy*)
- - Not play subtly
- - Not play it straight
- - Go too far on the boards
- - Give expression to one's feelings
- - Frustrate the director, perhaps
- - ham it up in 'spamalot'
- - Be overly dramatic onstage
- - Sweetheart, finding tiniest speck might be a bit melodramatic, perhaps
- - express big feelings, maybe
- - show great feeling in demo, tellingly
- - Show one's feelings if stand-offish when beheaded
- - Overact onstage
- - Project on stage
- - Act overdramatically
- - cry on broadway, say
- - Miniature image on Twitch
- - demonstrate a need for acting lessons
- - fake one's feelings, maybe
- - overact, say
- - Express strong feelings about e-book
- - act shamelessly?
- - express exaggerated feelings
- - reaction on twitch
- - Fortnite dance move
- - ham it up in "hamilton"
- - Act dramatically on stage
- - Express strong feeling, using term Goethe oddly rejected
- - Portray emotions dramatically
- - Ham it up theatrically
- - Dramatically express feelings
- - Behave theatrically
- - Be theatrical
- - Get carried away in Hollywood
- - Act amateurishly
- - Indulge in cabotinage
- - Express feeling
- - Perform with great feeling
- - Get melodramatic
- - Rage onstage
- - Overplay onstage
- - Do some tub-thumping
- - Be histrionic
- - Be a drama queen
- - Act theatrical
- - Act excessively expressive
- - Act broadly
- - Wax rhapsodic, perhaps
- - Overplay one's part
- - Not act well?
- - Milk a scene for all it's worth
- - Express feelings
- - Display histrionics
- - Behave like a thespian
- - Be overtheatrical
- - Act up a storm
- - Act passionately
- - Act like a thespian
- - Speak theatrically
- - Shed false tears, say
- - Portray broadly
- - Perform with broad gestures
- - Overexpress one's feelings, on stage
- - Keep up with a ham?
- - Express emotion
- - Emulate Valentino
- - Emulate Pola Negri
- - Emulate Pearl White
- - Be melodramatic on stage
- - Be Jim Carrey when you should be George Clooney
- - Be actorish
- - Be a hammy actor
- - Be a ham in "Hamlet"
- - Act poorly
- - Act larger than life
- - What some stars do
- - What some divas do
- - Wear one's heart on one's sleeve
- - Wear one's feelings on one's sleeve
- - Wax theatric
- - Wax operatic
- - Wax histrionic
- - Wax dramatic
- - Upstage a co-star, perhaps
- - Upset a stage coach?
- - Upset a stage coach, perhaps
- - Stress lines?
- - Spurn subtlety, in a way
- - Speak overdramatically
- - Speak histrionically
- - Show too much feeling?
- - Show thespian zeal
- - Show rage onstage, say
- - Show fear, perhaps
- - Show anger, say
- - Shed tears onstage
- - Shed crocodile tears
- - Serve up some ham?
- - Say it with feeling
- - Really act out?
- - Rage, e.g., onstage
- - Put on a scene: Jocose.
- - Portray with schmaltz.
- - Portray feelings theatrically
- - Perform poorly, perhaps
- - Perform histrionically
- - Overplay it
- - Overplay a role, say
- - Overexpress one's feelings
- - Overdramatize lines
- - Overdo, onstage
- - Overdo one's lines
- - Overdo a scene, say
- - Overdo a role
- - Not keep one's feelings pent up
- - Not act conservatively
- - Make a big scene?
- - Let one's feeling show
- - Lay it on thick on stage
- - Laugh or cry onstage
- - Hardly underplay on stage
- - Hardly suppress one's feelings
- - Hardly be stoical
- - Hardly be deadpan
- - Ham-act
- - Ham up "Hamlet"
- - Ham it up onstage
- - Ham it up in "Hamlet," say
- - Ham it up as Hamlet
- - Ham Hamlet
- - Go too far onstage
- - Go too far in performing
- - Go overboard, in a way
- - Go into histrionics
- - Get overtheatrical
- - Get gushy
- - Get dramatic
- - Get all histrionic
- - Feign fear or fury
- - Fake feelings
- - Express unsubtly
- - Express shock or happiness, say
- - Express sentiment
- - Express oneself
- - Express feeling excessively
- - Express effusively
- - Express dramatically
- - Exaggerate onstage
- - Engage in melodramatics
- - Engage in cabotinage
- - Enact a feeling
- - Emulate thespians
- - Emulate Cabotin
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