For starters, it's a true ensemble piece, delightfully played with Audrey Tautou (of Amélie fame) and Sami Bouajila.
The regular m.c. of the balls within "Pose," named Pray Tell and delightfully played by Billy Porter, summons participants to flaunt a specific type of fabulousness at least a couple of times each episode.
Standing at every opportunity in the lovers' way is Lionel Drippinwithit (delightfully played by John Gregorio), abetted by his eagerly violent henchman, Max the Thug (Mr. Jennings again, in a winningly Cagneyesque performance).
George Manahan provided a lively, secure accompaniment with his 20-member orchestra, and Rhoda Levine, working within a physical production mostly appropriated from previous Lake George stagings, handled the young singer-actors with real comic invention (a silent maid, delightfully played by Eva Maxwell, was a Levine invention).
Yves Tumor's "Serpent Music," misty and bluesy; Frankie Reyes's "Boleros Valses y Mas," a set of traditional Latin-American boleros delightfully played through an analogue synthesizer; Helado Negro's "Private Energy," an electronic excursion into what it means to be "young, Latin, and proud".
While the musical history lessons are delivered in Spanish (there are supertitles in English), the show's castrato (ably acted and sung in a countertenor range by Javier Medina) fumes at its keyboardist (Edwin Calderón, who riffs a mean harpsichord) while the Paré brothers' slave (delightfully played by Kaveh Parmas) taunts the centaur.
But Scunthorpe were only on level terms for a minute before Troy Hewitt delightfully played through Hopper, who made no mistake from close range.
He played several longer innings, with a highest score of 85, and he scored runs by "delightfully played cricket".
It receives weak morning sun, the shafts of light playing delightfully on it through the leaves of a horse chestnut.
Under the inspired direction of Scott Alan Evans for TACT, these five wonderful actors have a lot of fun playing delightfully neurotic characters with absolutely no boundaries, and the hilarity is infectious.
