Playing a landlady on hand mostly to offer comic relief alongside the rather obvious aperçu ("failure, it's a bitter pill to swallow"), Gwen Taylor is an evident audience-pleaser, and Chris New's Orton — at once swaggering and cocksure, ruthless yet possessed of residues of affection — has moved on immeasurably from where it was before: a good performance has become a major one.
Certainly the heightened passion that is evident among audiences when Sanders speaks at rallies is matched in his buzzy campaign headquarters.
The passion was evident in the audience.
Remnants of a shipwreck will be evident to the audience by the rigging and sails attached to the Boardwalk rail, and the scenes will exploit Coney's landscape.
As the kitchen scene progresses, it gradually becomes evident to the audience that the workers are the same people who were once accomplices in Siegfried's murder, although none of them apparently know it.
It can continue to stage elaborate shock-and-awe spectacles, but if, as is increasingly evident, the target audience refuses to be impressed by them, they are rendered utterly futile - even dangerously counterproductive.
And the three performers are all marvelously deadpan linguists, not to mention terrific at the jittery self-doubt that is evident to the audience but which the characters are at pains to shield from one another.
The continuing power of the stark "Five Pieces" section was evident in the audience's nervous giggles, an understandable response, perhaps, given the frightening and strangely sad non sequiturs of the duet, performed by Helene Alexopoulos and James Fayette.
But Mr. Armani was true to his own vision and the success he has made of this upper-end Privé line, introduced in 2005, was evident in the audience — not just the stars like Anne Hathaway and Tina Turner but in the ranks of clients.
As the documentary unraveled, it became evident that the audience was more than a traditional biopic.
