Usually means: Performing to impress the audience.
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  1. play to the gallery: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. play to the gallery: Merriam-Webster
  3. play to the gallery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. play to the gallery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. play to the gallery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. play to the gallery: Wiktionary
  7. play to the gallery: Dictionary.com

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  1. play to the gallery: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (play to the gallery)

verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To appeal to the least sophisticated parts of an audience in order to obtain maximum approval.

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