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The one unfortunate aspect of the evening was that many in the audience could not understand the sung texts that were one of the performance's most important components.
Dancer Malavika Sarukkai wows Kennedy Center with 'Maximum' artistry 2011
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When creating the poems, Garrett and I considered the question: what does it look like when a stage performance's main character -- in this case, the boy -- is absent from the real-time action, existing only in memory, in the minds of those left behind?
Michael Henry: Men and Women, Ballet, and the Shock of Recognition Michael Henry 2011
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They seek to maintain the performance's looseness, Hitchcock says, simply because it works.
Musical History Tour: Joe Boyd and Robyn Hitchcock revisit the '60s 2011
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When creating the poems, Garrett and I considered the question: what does it look like when a stage performance's main character -- in this case, the boy -- is absent from the real-time action, existing only in memory, in the minds of those left behind?
Michael Henry: Men and Women, Ballet, and the Shock of Recognition Michael Henry 2011
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When creating the poems, Garrett and I considered the question: what does it look like when a stage performance's main character -- in this case, the boy -- is absent from the real-time action, existing only in memory, in the minds of those left behind?
Michael Henry: Men and Women, Ballet, and the Shock of Recognition Michael Henry 2011
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They seek to maintain the performance's looseness, Hitchcock says, simply because it works.
Musical History Tour: Joe Boyd and Robyn Hitchcock revisit the '60s 2011
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Discussion kept returning to Bono's embrace of Julie Taymor at the performance's curtain call.
Berry, Bloomberg Star in Benefit Marshall Heyman 2011
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"The Weir" is ultimately a ghost story, and a good one, so even the fact that there's ample room for more texture in the performance's opening doesn't cost the show much.
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Of "Pinafore," the performance's conductor, Will Crutchfield, who directs the Bel Canto at Caramoor series, observes that it is "England's version of bel canto comic opera, plain and simple."
Gilbert & Sullivan, Parody's Patresfamilias Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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When creating the poems, Garrett and I considered the question: what does it look like when a stage performance's main character -- in this case, the boy -- is absent from the real-time action, existing only in memory, in the minds of those left behind?
Michael Henry: Men and Women, Ballet, and the Shock of Recognition Michael Henry 2011
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