But on Smash, the music is there to complement the story, rather than the story existing to drive the musical performances.
Occasionally, if you're lucky, the real-life intrusions will weirdly complement the story.
The director, Loy Arcenas, fills the space quite nicely; attractive video clips of family trees explaining the House of Atreus and jokey TV show snippets complement the story of Iphigenia (Jennifer Ikeda), who is sacrificed to appease Artemis (David Greenspan, wearing pressed pants and a devilish smile).
J.G.: I quickly realized the difference between helping to write the script and adding to the visual [realism] and how things are created [that] complement the story.
Nubia, a jazzy album track which features the great Ron Carter on bass, has a hypnotic rhythm which complements the story perfectly".
Ms. Farnsworth's prose complements the story with a series of profiles of businessmen, drillers, drivers and ranchers, of locals and migrant laborers.
Several have been launched using the new platform, including Transformers: Ruckus Reader, which complements its story with a word hunt, mini-games and a make-your-own story page.
In "My Coma Dreams," Mr. Hersch's ambitious new work, which had its debut last weekend at the Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University, his musical strengths — and those of his 10-piece ensemble — complement real stories from the boundaries of consciousness, presented in words and video projections.
(iii) The software organization has developed a new artefact that seems to be a worthwhile contribution to agile software development in the large: 'delivery stories', which complement user stories with technical implications, effort estimation and associated risk.
Cooder wanted the music of each song to complement the stories and to serve as homages to particular traditional styles.
And it stands in contrast, but complements the story lines of Brazil's recent presidents -- exiled academic outsider-cum-reformist-cum-transitional architect; Northeastern-migrant industrial working-class trade unionist-cum-transformational democrat.
