In MacMillan's motet the women of the Glasgow Chamber Choir sang with impressive command to cast a clammy gauze of sound around medieval French-Cypriot antiphons from the gents and a silvery, nimble solo violin.
About a week into rehearsal, Strong said, van Hove commanded the cast to go barefoot: "Ivo said, 'We don't need shoes,' and we took them off, and we never thought about them again".
John Dexter's 1977 production is one of the company's finest; even without Levine in command, "Lulu" will cast its dark spell.
A "British tourist" giving his name as James Bonar was featured on national television dishing out effusive praise for "wonderful" Azerbaijan, but his shaky command of English cast doubt on his authenticity, leaving some to question whether he'd been used prop to promote the games.
She even refers to the microphone she uses to issue commands to the cast in rehearsals as the "God mic".
Ishmael was first saved when God commanded Abraham to cast him and his mother into the desert, presumably to die.
In The Death of Stalin, out in theaters today, Iannucci commands a stellar cast including Steve Buscemi, Paddy Considine, Jason Isaacs, Andrea Riseborough, Rupert Friend, and Jeffrey Tambor in a farce about the tumultuous days surrounding the death of the Soviet dictator.
In The Death of Stalin, out in theatres today, Iannucci commands a stellar cast including Steve Buscemi, Paddy Considine, Jason Isaacs, Andrea Riseborough, Rupert Friend, and Jeffrey Tambor in a farce about the tumultuous days surrounding the death of the Soviet dictator.
In trying to get the best out of this classy but wasted lineup, director Nigel Cole shows the same easy command of an ensemble cast that he displayed in Calendar Girls.
Few in the cast are commanding, as actors or singers.
