His encore, "Spring Dance" by Sun Yi-Qian, set frolicsome volleys and exaggerated tenderness over a robust tango rhythm.
Even when a character gleefully hefts a severed head (which happens to be her son's) in the air, the show exudes the frolicsome blandness of a Ruritanian romance set to music.
That's fine with Ms. Frischmann, and as the band's loose, frolicsome show indicated, even better for her music.
Think of Gulliver, in Lilliput, extinguishing a fire in the royal palace with a jet of urine, or of the "frolicsome girl of sixteen," in Brobdingnag, who would "sometimes set me astride upon one of her nipples, with many other tricks" — Gulliver now being the size of Paul, and ripe for use as a sex toy.
"It's a Big Army," the set closer, plowed straight into rafters-raising territory, and Mr. Scofield responded with a frolicsome surrender.
Despite its European setting, the film is Hollywood Babylon made into drama; its behind-the-scenes decadence and power plays were both masked and suggested by stars' frolicsome on-screen pantomime.
The effect is frolicsome rather than egotistical.
— So charmingly frolicsome, so scarily intense.
The frolicsome initial Allegro merges bulk and bounce.
As often, though, the music was frolicsome or tender.
"This lady is fun, frolicsome and super company!" declares another.
