Sentence examples for dull production from inspiring English sources

But the cast has to work hard to enliven the puzzlingly dull production.

It is no surprise that Mr. Lepage's dazzling, ultimately dull "Ring" looks and feels so similar to the dazzling, ultimately dull production it followed and consciously echoed.

I was there not for Guy Cassirers's dull production but for Daniel Barenboim, often an unpredictable Wagner conductor — here his second act was superb, the others less so — and for René Pape singing Wotan.

Although Bondy has conceived potent stagings of "Salome," "Don Carlos," and Handel's "Hercules," among other operas, he has failed to find a clear angle on "Tosca," and instead delivered an uneven, muddled, weirdly dull production that interferes fatally with the working of Puccini's perfect contraption.

But the 51-year-old musical is beginning to show its age, and Nunn's decently dull production has little of the raffish elan you find in Privates on Parade, which also deals with inter-racial marriage and camp entertainments in the theatre of war.

While there's not much to Neneh Cherry's part on "Kids With Guns," and it's almost inaudible thanks to Danger Mouse's dulled production, Cherry still manages to do a lot with very little here.

The stellar bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni, whose terrific stint as Leporello is enlivening the Met's dull new production of "Don Giovanni," offered a charming rendition of the "Catalogue Aria," consulting his cellphone for the Don's conquests.

Mr. Daniels, who played Caesar at the Met in 2007 for the last run of John Copley's dull 1988 production of this opera, is again remarkable, singing with his full-bodied sound, emphatic delivery and technical command.

CBS's P.G.A. Birdie The absence of Tiger Woods after 3 56 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday at the final round of the P.G.A. Championship did not dull CBS's production edge.

In this production, dulled by otherwise humdrum casting, Flórez winds up playing second fiddle to Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak in the title role.

"I think this book is perfect for the mass production of dull women suitable for dull men," Ms. Shiono wrote.