Related Clues:
- Did it broadly, on Broadway
- Was hammy
- Got melodramatic
- Didn't act well
- Was a ham
- Acted stagily
- Hammed it up onstage
- Frustrated the director, perhaps
- Gushed on stage
- Was melodramatic
- Performed badly?
- Put lower down the bill, losing lead, luvvy expressed feelings thus
- Acted amateurishly
- Acted broadly, on Broadway
- Didn't hide one's feelings, to say the least