Not to disparage either performer's solidly made original material, but it was thoroughly eclipsed by the music from "Rent," which sent zingers to the heart.
Lil' Mama said she did not mean to disrespect either performer but the song had her "emotions running high", adding that "in that moment I came up onstage to celebrate my two icons singing about NY".
None of this is what theatre should be – and at the root of the problem is the expectation that people in an auditorium should be homogeneous, conforming and undifferentiated, so as not to distract either the performers or each other.
Florence Welch won't be left out either – "female performers and festivalgoers are being encouraged to join in with free cardboard 'urine directors' that we're handing out next to the urinals," adds Westergaard.
"I tell the singers, 'if you get this bar right, it will be a world premiere' .Given that the opera about the tragic love-life of the Parisian courtesan, Violetta Valéry, was performed 533 times around the world during the 2012-13 opera season, Glyndebourne's production will not exactly be a world premiere for either the performers or the audience.
The young captives are then dispatched to a foreign environment to work either as performers or laborers, all the while being kept in relative confinement and isolation, a kind of living death for an animal as socially developed and dependent as we now know elephants to be.
See, although there were a lot of fans left for the last of the breed, the latest versions were so far from being either great performers or grand styling statements that it's no wonder GM couldn't keep them selling.
At Absinthe, there are no nets, no safety cables (except at one point in the show where, apparently, Vegas regulations demand it) and certainly no face protectors, either for performers or audience.
So, obviously, Hollywild is not a great place for either animal performers or the tourists who want to burn a few hours contemplating the cruel, arbitrary nature of fame and life itself.
