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It certainly aspires to the pedigree of first-rate light verse: Porter's deftly kinetic stanzas display a metrical facility that transcends the jingle-jangle of doggerel, and he could rhyme on a dime like few in his time.
The latter are first-rate: light, lacy and crisp, but just thick enough to offer some resistance, almost greaseless, and partnered with excellent chutneys and a sambar that tasted, as the best do, like the ultimate winter veg soup.
"It's a sophisticated story, told with first-rate lights and shadows," wrote its reviewer, Laurence Reid.
The Surrealist motif is nicely carried out in Dona Granata's costumes and the characteristically first-rate lighting by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer.
This production has rousing songs, big voices, stylish staging and choreography, first-rate lighting and handsome period costumes.
The weighted stillness with which he begins the scene, hauntingly underscored by Scott Zielinski's first-rate lighting, is as disturbing as a death mask.
Thanks to subtle changes in his facial expression and posture, and a slight assist from John Lasiter's first-rate lighting, we are never in doubt about which of them is addressing us at any given moment.
Especially when the light is beautiful, the air cool, the children well behaved and the talent first rate.
The feather-light gnocchi tossed with pan-seared sea scallops in a golden saffron sauce was also first rate.
It's first rate.
Absolutely first rate.
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