Thriller Live includes over two-hours of non-stop hit songs in a show that pays homage to the world-class spectacle of Jackson's legendary live performances.
This truly world-class spectacle is remaining, if barely, uncrowded and unruined by the immense battalions who now quite understandably wish to see it.
If you're looking for a parable for the ages, a letter-faithful homage to the novel or a world-class spectacle, you'll probably be disappointed.
India had promised a world-class spectacle when it won the bid in 2003 to host the quadrennial competition, but until Sunday there was little reason to believe anything close to that would occur.
Imagine how things might have been for Formula One if it made the popular choice of calling off the race in Bahrain — be it for safety or moral reasons, or because this is a sport that says it wants nothing to do with politics — and it also provided a first-class spectacle like Sunday's?
Almost any spot on the Bulb commands a world-class spectacle: city, bridges, and mountains shimmering across a silver bay; hummingbirds nuzzling wildflowers and the blooms of domesticated plants whose ancestors arrived here when this place was a dump.
To those who care about the Indianapolis 500's status as a world-class sporting spectacle, the commotion that follows Helio Castroneves's every move here sounds like music.
A U.S. society whose self-defining myths include the myth of classlessness needs the spectacle of class at work.
And like no other place, this cauldron of race, class, evil, money and spectacle inspires peace officers to write.
Out with the animals and the ringmaster in a red coat; in with New Agey world music, big-budget spectacle, world-class athletes and poetic clowns in swirls of caked-on makeup.
The festival also offers symposiums on Bach performance and Renaissance spectacle, master classes in lute and harpsichord, displays and sales of instruments and recordings and meetings of enthusiast groups like the American Guild of Organists and the Viola da Gamba Society.
