Online threads about Dumile's work tend to feature nothing but a series of favorite lines: "Oh my aching hands, from raking in grands / And breaking in mike stands," or "What?
"It's Valentine's Day tomorrow, isn't it?" she asked casually during a mike break.
After an hour or so they took a break and turned the mike over to a jeans-clad fellow from the audience who played guitar and sang blues.
While the book and the songs are not particularly well integrated — after a little banter and maybe a flashback to the rough old days, somebody will just step up to the mike and break into a familiar tune — the directors, Mr. Mutrux and Eric Schaeffer, don't ease up on the gas pedal long enough for you to complain.
Earlier this year, for example, when Jay Street passengers were waiting hopelessly for a nonexistent F train, Mr. Baez, ensconced in a glass booth at the north end of the platform, grabbed the mike and broke M.T.A. radio silence.
Once he left school, he had bartending jobs where the management would let him improvise at the mike in the breaks between the musicians' sets.
And he spices the flow with an effective spin on such a well-worn theatrical device as the break-the-fourth-wall monologue, treating it like open mike night.
Cuiffo took a break and studied the grainy video: Bruce, weary and companionable, resting his arm on the mike stand.
Q: The question is that you couldn't try to break this out of the reconciliation package, but can you only do it in the reconciliation -- (off mike)?
Oakland County is the fifth child, that he probably loves most.' " Before taking the mike at the hunt-club luncheon, he told me, "I like to fix things that are broken and create things that don't exist".
At the innings break, Mike Atherton reckoned that England would win "at a canter".
