Lesser directors had been filming song-and-dance scenes with a dull, stage-bound fidelity; Berkeley — the subject of a Film Forum series Dec. 7-15 — themed them into extravagant fantasies that could only be realized on film.
Housing seems worthy but dull – an important but boring stage for real-life drama.
While following him around the country, Pelosi also traced her own journey through the months of transportation delays, down-in-the-trenches intimacy with the travelling-press pack (including the inevitable aborted romance), too many turkey sandwiches, and an endless round of dishwater-dull staged events.
This may be the most tedious stage as there seems to be an endless amount of the dull grout residue.
Hischak described the original cast album as "surprisingly lively and mostly enjoyable for a musical that was considered so dull on stage".
The spectacle proved a welcome antidote to the dull new staging of Donizetti's "Elisir d'Amore," which seemed prematurely cobwebbed at its gala premiere on Monday despite fine singing from an excellent cast.
But he also hints, when confronted by one of Savile's victims, at the dead-eyed emptiness of a man whose presentation of himself to the world was one big con trick … The play is by no means a piece of sordid opportunism … But it is a wee bit dull, perfunctorily staged by Brendan O'Hea, and dramatically inert for the most part".
His music was rather dull, but his stage show was impressive and inventive: at one point, he dressed his two female dancers in prosthetic bikinis that wittily exaggerated the parts they were meant to cover.
Contador insisted that there would be no repeat of last year's dull final mountain stage just 24 hours before reaching Paris when the peloton tackled another historic climb, the Mont Ventoux.
He told the audience that though real swords are dulled for safe stage combat, they still have the potential to do harm.
After cranking up the contrast on the telly, we'd lie curled up on the sofa laughing through dishwater-dull 0-0 group stage games between exotic nations unknown to my six-year-old self.
