Still, between yakking with sports talk radio in Kentucky and with Boomer and Carton in New York, there was Cory Booker sitting in the lap of the Newark Bears mascot Wednesday morning and then jumping around the auditorium stage at the Ann Street School of Mathematics and Science like a kid-friendly cross between Tony Robbins and Richard Simmons.
For the music of heaven, then, Messiaen offers a serene melody in the unearthly sounds of three electronic instruments, projected around the auditorium, with orchestra and choir in support.
There is rarely a lease available for one of the 114 tents -- now attached to frame structures -- clustered around the Great Auditorium and plaza.
General Cody looked around the auditorium, packed with men and women in uniform — most of them in their mid-20s, three decades his junior but far more war-hardened than he or his peers were at the same age — and turned Captain Wignall's question around.
This is usually not clear until someone important holds a press conference, and you look around the auditorium, as I did the other day, and realize that there are far fewer Western reporters here than there used to be.
Looking around in the auditorium of the plush Cineworld Empire Imax in Leicester Square, it's apparent that pretty much nobody is dressed up as Potter.
When the high school doesn't have students' schedules ready -- and, Elizabeth says, it often doesn't -- kids just sit around in the auditorium all day.
From that start, "Sidewalk" only grows: the walking, trotting or running of its dancers through and around the auditorium, cresting the music's energy, is often exhilarating.
A mirrorball rotates, casting luminous snowflakes around the auditorium as he launches, light and whimsical, into Just One Of Those Things; his version of the Dietrich classic Falling in Love Again is peculiarly intense and plaintive.
The Public Theatre's Oskar Eustis gave the audience a dramatic role, too, when he directed the play at the Delacorte Theatre, last summer, by strategically placing dozen of extras around the auditorium, so that their chants and shouts of revolution seemed to arise from the assembly rather than from the stage.
