Their energetic and fresh sound set the tone for a high-spirited night that also featured beloved Shanghai-based alternative rock band, Duck Fight Goose, whose performance shook the concert hall with trembling guitar riffs and abstract keyboard melodies.
On the other hand, there are high spots: the staging of the "Lonely Town" pas de deux, the spirited night-club scenes.
There were tender renditions of "Penny Lover" and "Say You, Say Me" for couples looking to slow dance; there was also a spirited take on "All Night Long (All Night)" for audience members who wanted to move faster.
In the process, they have exported some of the high-spirited night life of their younger years in Manhattan to the skateboard-filled driveways and deer-tracked byways of suburbia.
Football may not be a universally welcome presence at these Olympic Games but Great Britain's men joined their female counterparts in the quarter-finals last night with a spirited display in Cardiff that will ensure the game gets closer to centre stage.
Our dinner at The Fifth Grill and Terrace that night was a spirited one.
Amy Poehler, who appears on "Saturday Night Live," gave a spirited reading of a letter from "Jessica" to her ex-boyfriend "Scott".
A night on the town with one of the boys ends with a spirited game of "tag - you're it" involving plastic tarp and an ax.
If ever a spirited encore was needed (and Purcell provides innumerable opportunities), it was here, on a night of celebration that, alas, turned out cold, rainy and dreary.
On the very first question of the night, and without all that much prompting, Mr. Perry and Mr. Romney began a spirited exchange over Social Security.
A spirited correspondence followed.
