Sentence examples for fanciful comedy from inspiring English sources

(Brantley) * 'THE INTELLIGENT DESIGN OF JENNY CHOW' In Rolin Jones's fanciful comedy, playfully directed by Jackson Gay, a lonely young woman in California embarks on an ambitious science project to help conquer her agoraphobia and trace her origins in China.

78th Street Theater Lab, 236 West 78th Street, (800 838-3006, closing Sunday.( Genzlinger) *'THE INTELLIGENT DESIGN OF JENNY CHOW' In Rolin Jones's fanciful comedy, playfully directed by Jackson Gay, a lonely young woman in California embarks on an ambitious science project to help conquer her agoraphobia and trace her origins in China.

Around this point, "The Angels Sharee" abruptly transforms into a fanciful caper comedy in which Robbie and three collaborators from his work team don kilts and pose as Highlanders calling themselves the Carntyne Malt Whisky Club.

A fanciful but obviously underdeveloped comedy about an artist's identity crisis, the two-act play wobbles around the character of Maddie Sternberg, a successful cartoonist.

Even by the fanciful rules of caper comedies, "After the Sunset" is a fraudulent entertainment.

The comedy in this fanciful production by Cesare Lievi is sometimes over the top, but the show is lively and colorful.

The comedy in this fanciful production by Cesare Lievi is sometimes dumbly over the top, but the show is lively and colorful.

If you compare it with, say "Kiss Me, Kate" (which it resembles in that the latter is also a fanciful interpretation of a classic comedy), it is obvious that "Kiss Me, Kate" is a much better show, in part because Cole Porter has more genuine melodic gift than Krokofiev".

It's telling that these alternative companies are often shunted towards Shakespeare's lighter, fanciful fare: the Tempest's magic, Comedy of Errors's anarchy, Cymbeline's fairytale.

Reality was black and white (as documentaries and realist dramas remained for a time, long after more fanciful genres like westerns, musicals and comedies had gone over to color).

These insects are the colorfully clad human performers in Cirque du Soleil's "Ovo," a show that takes you inside a fanciful bug universe for a mixture of mild comedy and impressive aerial and acrobatic stunts.