Sentence examples for a landmark performance from inspiring English sources
The first fruit of Mr. Mackerras's Mozart research was a landmark performance of "The Marriage of Figaro" at the Sadler's Wells Opera, in 1965.
However, director William A. Wellman was so impressed with Cagney's intensity that he had the actors switch roles, thus facilitating a landmark performance in cinematic history.
Mr Nice should, then, be a landmark performance: the part of his life (he's on screen constantly, even playing Marks aged 14).
When street celebrations resumed for Victory in Europe (VE) Day in March 1946, Winston ("Spree") Simon presented a landmark performance of several popular melodies on his "ping pong"—a single, tuned steel pan.
"Well, after the third part, Ileana's only comment was, 'You make it very difficult, don't you?' " For his first show at Sonnabend, in 1972, Acconci presented "Seedbed," a landmark performance in which he lay hidden beneath a ramp, masturbating for hours while visitors listened in on his rambling sexual fantasies.
The play, a multi-layered evocation of English identity driven by a landmark performance by Mark Rylance, was garlanded with awards, received rave reviews, and was a sell-out hit both on Broadway and the West End, enhancing both the Royal Court's international profile and its financial security.
Americas ping-pong diplomacy under Richard Nixon featured an equally landmark performance in China in 1973 by the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony traveled to the Soviet Union in 1956, more than four decades before the fall of Berlin Wall.
It's a great play, but Mark Rylance's landmark performance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron raised it, and I was completely gobsmacked.
After all, there's very much something of the charismatic shape-shifter that was Olivier to Mark Rylance, the Tony-winning performer ("Boeing-Boeing") whose landmark performance in Jez Butterworth's "Jerusalem" can be experienced anew on the West End from Jan . 28for 12 weeks before a Broadway run in a year or so.
Thurber's original short story is a byword for salaryman fantasising (in a more innocent era), while Kaye turned in a landmark comedy performance in a 1947 Technicolor classic.
Carolee Schneemann has done menstrual blottings but these could be read as an extension of the work Interior Scroll, a poem extracted from her vagina during a landmark 1975 performance.
