Risks are involved at every stage; cherished relationships are at stake.
That staging is still cherished by some for the sight of Lesley Garrett baring her bottom as Adele during the second act, but the new version of Die Fledermaus, directed by Christopher Alden, seems most unlikely to be remembered in a quarter of a century for any reason at all.
"I think he is cherished as a national treasure at this stage".
You see little one, all of your firsts mean I am saying goodbye to stages of my life I have cherished.
The return of Hartford Stage's former artistic director, Mark Lamos, who elicited them, is to be cherished.
In the interval the stage fills up: with a lacrosse stick, bricks, baskets, a piece of string, cherished as if it were a pet.
But the greatest casualty may be the president's cherished image as a post-partisan leader, one carefully cultivated since he first stepped onto the national stage in 2004 vowing to heal the rift between red and blue America.
It felt like one of those fabled performances (much cherished by theatergoers) that in a single, golden night thrust its leading lady into the firmament of musical stage stardom.
Cherished daughter of Ruth.
