Portraying Jewish villagers (and a few Cossacks) in a Russian village in 1905, the ensemble members go through their paces of song, dance and Yiddish humor with a bland, dutiful cheer that rarely turns into anything more robust.
In David Leveaux's handsomely mounted, antiseptically acted revival of this beloved musical of Jewish life in turn-of-the-century Russia, the ensemble members go through their paces of song, dance and Yiddish humor with a bland, dutiful cheer that rarely turns into anything more robust.
In David Leveaux's handsomely mounted, antiseptically acted revival of this beloved musical of Jewish life in Russia, circa 1900, the ensemble members go through their paces of song, dance and Yiddish humor with a bland, dutiful cheer that rarely turns into anything more robust.
Tory MPs dutifully cheered at the end of the statement but they were pretty stony-faced while their leader was speaking.
The crowd, mainly made up of families and young people, dutifully cheered on cue, and looked on with amazement at the way the centre of their city had been turned into a massive movie set.
While the delegates dutifully cheered as thousands of balloons mixed with confetti fell from the ceiling at the end of the speech, it fell far short of the raucousness and excitement at the end of the 2008 convention.
Sherri Shepherd tried her best to make this sound exciting and the dutiful audience cheered.
Doris cheered like a dutiful mother.
And of course, there is the SPR, still being dutifully filled to the happy cheers of the oil pooh-bahs both here and abroad at ever increasing expense to American pocketbooks.
The set opened, brightly if dutifully, with the jostling cheer of its namesake tune.
