The show reflected that outsize reality, with elaborate production values, an expert band, four backup dancers and more than a few of those all-important smashes.
Yet he and his expert band put so much charm and energy into the music that you hardly minded hearing it all again.
Leading his expert band on a variety of vintage string instruments, White said "We're Going to Be Friends" had the kind of "four-on-the-floor beat that's so popular right now".
However, if 10 or more of the 20 variables fell outside the expert's bands, it is not likely that so many outliers resulted by chance.
What makes Mr. Young's romanticism endearing is its matter-of-factness, enhanced on this tour by a placidly expert backing band.
"Shadow Expert," the band's latest LP, is an essential listen for long road trips through weird towns; Palm will celebrate a new album, "Rock Island," due out on the day of this show.
Smith was for a government that intervened regularly and actively on behalf of consumers and against the natural tendency of "producers" — i.e., very wealthy people, whether aristocratic landowners or manufacturers or, perhaps, financial-leverage experts — to band together for their own benefit.
To this I can only answer: faced with one of the most sceptical, expert and informed bands of interrogators in the world, I wish we could do much more.
Susan Narucki leads the cast; Christopher Alden directs; Axiom, Juilliard's expert new-music band, is in the pit, conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky.
Despite being an internationally recognized expert on lap band and gastric bypass surgeries, Dr. Fielding knew that his appearance was dissuading some patients from using his services.
