He was his usual brilliant self, delighting thousands in a packed Albert Hall.
Work by a writer whose best characters, brilliant with the delight of buying things, can skirt the edge of derangement to reach an anguished, compassionate comedy.
"In my New York of the future, all pipes and wires will be strung along the upper sides of those tunnels, above a catwalk, accessible to engineers and painted brilliant colors to delight rather than appall the eye".
Barry Cryer remains endearingly brilliant; David Nobbs still delights; and those with "funny bones"– the Tommy Coopers and Les Dawsons – are funny for ever.
In all four solos (in both casts) you feel Balanchine's detailed delight in brilliant femininity.
In stating thus much I have also made clear what naturally went with it — the licentiousness in which he indulged at the very time that he contracted a most brilliant marriage, and the delight that he took in boys past their prime, 4 a practice which he also taught Nero to follow.
That's attributable largely to Berlin's brilliant array of musical delights (including the rousing industry anthem "There's No Business Like Show Business," the idealistic "The Girl That I Marry" and the confessional "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly").
First things first: following up on my colleague Peter's brilliant introduction, I'm delighted to introduce myself as new co-captain of the ship (although I think we're more like co-stowaways).
The ill-fated illusions of the groveling stylists, the greed, venality and sanctimoniousness of the Oscar smear campaign -- these were just the kinds of things that Mr. Wilder, the brilliant Austro-Hungarian director, delighted in satirizing.
The Radio Times Guide To TV Comedy described Victoria Wood As Seen On TV as having "a regular company of fine performers, good production values, incisive scripts and a snappy pace... the show rarely dipped below brilliant and featured numerous delights, such as Wood's hilariously authentic dialogue and her surprisingly stinging satirical characters".
THERE have been times this season when one could hear balletgoers sighing with delight -- not over brilliant stars or sumptuous spectacles, although there has been opulence to admire.
