They begin with "The King of Masks," in Mandarin with English subtitles, Wuy Tianming's 1999 drama about an aging performer's search for a protege.
His career swan song as an aging performer with a complicated crush in "Venus?" PHOTOS: Peter O'Toole | 1932-2013.
It became a retirement home of sorts for aging animal performers and other creatures no one else seemed to want.
Upstairs there is a Russian circus artist with the rasping voice of Ian McShane, while below a pair of aging burlesque performers twitter and chirp in the giddy tones of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, queens of British TV comedy.
The cast will include teen-age performers from two city community centers.
Justin Bieber and Youth's New Wilderness Hard-working under-age performers disrupt our sense of childhood as a period of all play and no work.
New age performers like the pianist and guitarist George Winston, who made his first album for Takoma, prospered with a more ingratiating solo-guitar style.
Those interests, Mr. Layton said, predicted a fascination with cosmic vibrations and resonant frequencies among early New Age performers of the 1970s who are now enjoying an unexpected resurgence among a new generation, "people who have come up listening to music on blogs and file-trading and cassette-tape culture".
The success of "Glee" depends on the energy and the obvious talent of its young (but way beyond high-school age) performers, and on Jane Lynch, who plays Sue Sylvester, the acid-tongued, sneaky, and completely loony cheerleading coach, whose every line of dialogue is quotable (and is duly quoted, minutes after being delivered, on Facebook pages and in Twitter feeds).
The woman is Patty (Patrizia Gerardi), an aging circus performer who, along with her husband, Walter Walter Saabellivesines in a dismal trailer park on the outskirts of Rome.
