Mr. Wyatt, 81, is one of the last legendary Texas oilmen, a former drill-bit salesman who put together several ambitious international energy ventures.
Daniel Sturridge should have given Klopp's team the lead when James Milner and Roberto Firmino carved open the home defence and the former drilled an inviting pass across the face of goal.
It will be staged in the armory's vaulted former drill hall for five performances from July 5 to July 12. "Die Soldaten" was staged twice in the United States before this production; it had its premiere at the Cologne Opera in 1965.
Mr. Wyatt has long been a Texas oil-field legend, a former drill bit salesman who was born in Beaumont and started working as a crop duster after getting his pilot's license at age 16.
The dancers were trained to march by Sharon Morrison, a former drill sergeant and now a social worker at the post-traumatic stress clinic in the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, who helped recruit the veterans for Ms. Rogoff's project.
Then, as coloured light fills the former drill hall at the Park Avenue Armory, the dancers appear nearly nude, wearing underwear so closely matching their skin tones it must have been specially created.
That is a whole other story, complete with a former drill sergeant from the Jamaican Army, Michael Galloway, 35, who has been on the job a mere three weeks but has taken it upon himself to tell each of the men how to stand and direct traffic.
His father, an Air Force master sergeant (and former drill instructor), moved the family to bases in California, back to Texas and then Virginia.
Back in street clothes on the club floor my former drill sergeants handed me a glass of Champagne to toast the end of training.
"We're identifying former drill halls, requisitioned factories and farm buildings, pill boxes, secret listening stations, acoustic mirrors, prisoner-of-war camps and gun emplacements - places that deserve to have the part they played in history made known.
