Sentence examples for a revue that from inspiring English sources

Finding their lives both funnier and more nuanced than the popular perceptions of nuns, he made their stories into a revue that began life in 1983 as a cabaret show at the Duplex, a Greenwich Village club.

"We're not interested if people are trying to be funny," Kurt Andersen, who is one of the three writers of "Loose Lips," a revue that opened last Thursday at a refurbished showplace on West Seventy-second Street called the Triad supper club, observed the other day.

Mr. Mugler, an outsize personality who has also designed costumes for performers and theatrical shows since the Mugler fashion business was initially shuttered in 2003, is separately developing a revue that is expected to be performed in Paris later this year and in Berlin next year.

And these shows follow seasons of shows like "Fosse," a dance revue that won best musical last year, and "Smokey Joe's Cafe," a revue that had a long run largely because one of its numbers was performed on the Tony Awards show, which can offer invaluable national exposure.

He was a director and a music arranger for "Our Sinatra," which was staged most recently at Birdland, the New York jazz club, and "Made for the Movies: a Hollywood Songbook," a revue that was staged at the Oak Room in New York.

Its season opener and first musical, "Dance With Me," is a revue that means to create a theatrical context for songs by John and Johanna Hall and Jonell Mosser, from the familiar ("Half Moon," a hit for Janis Joplin) to the lesser-known.

Making a musical revue that charms an audience for a full evening is a lot more tricky.

In 1948, Mr. Stein made his Broadway writing debut, creating a single sketch with Mr. Glickman for "Lend an Ear," a musical revue that starred Carol Channing and was choreographed by Gower Champion.

"Murder at the Vanities" (1934) is an ingeniously constructed backstage murder mystery, played out during an opening-night performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, a Broadway revue that offered a fleshier variant on the Ziegfeld Follies.

Chorus and understudy work followed before her breakout role in Lend an Ear (1948), a musical revue that showcased her talent for mimicry.

According to "James Brown: Get on the Good Foot," an enjoyable miscellany of a dance revue that had its premiere on Tuesday at the Apollo Theater, the answer is 10.