Jekyll's Gina Bellman gamely throws herself into the part of Sophie Devereaux, a wannabe actor who is dreadful on stage but unbeatable when grifting out in the real world.
On the page, the sentiment seems dreadful; on the stage, detachment played better.
Her instructor, Madame Maladroit, delights in Zombelina's dancing, but when it comes time for the girls to perform for their assembled parents, Zombelina is struck by a dreadful case of stage fright.
As the truncated 2013 season came to an end, it was taken as common knowledge that the Avs were at somewhere in the midst of that dreadful "re-building" stage.
I've sat through terrible productions of Greek tragedies where it was like some kind of Pan's People troupe moving around the stage in dreadful, stilted formation.
Including cast and theater staff, approximately 1,150 were on hand for what is considered one of the most magically dreadful nights in New York stage history.
Here, a listener suspected, more than in all the literalist historicizing of the early-music movement, was a sense of what things must have been like in Beethoven's day: an orchestra of dubious polish crammed onto a stage with dreadful acoustics, and yet with those amazing works exploding from it in clear enough outline to suggest their full majesty.
At the end of a dreadful first half, he staged a fake field goal play, with his entire line shifting to the far left side of the field, leaving holder Hunter Smith with no protection as he dropped back to pass.
Torture and a live burial follow, but he escapes to seek a dreadful revenge, which in its later stages is accompanied by a pastiche Ennio Morricone score.
