"While I don't think the fundamental themes and story of the play ever changed, I'd say 50 percent of the dialogue changed between the early rehearsals and heading to Broadway, and those changes came mostly from the actors," said Mr. Hall, who won the 2009 Tony Award for best book for "Billy Elliot The Musical," another story set against the backdrop of a British coal-mining community.
This remained a fundamental theme of Swedish, and later Swedish-American, discussion of America, though the recommended "timeless" values changed over time.
And the play's structure is long on fundamental theme-fulfilling and short on subtlety.
At times he exposed himself unnecessarily, from the sense of moral integrity that is a fundamental theme of his work and perhaps also from an obscure hunger for self-destruction.
Here it suffices to recall that a fundamental theme of proof theory (and in particular that part of it which is known as ordinal analysis) is the classification of theories by means of transfinite ordinals that measure their "consistency strength" and "computational power".
This emergence from nothingness and disappearance back into it is the fundamental theme of Mr. Amagatsu's work, and perhaps of Butoh itself.
His style may be inimitable, but it is widely imitated, not least because his fundamental theme — the conflict between technology and conscience, the threat to personal identity posed by modern abstractions of science and style — is even more urgent and popular now.
Other songs by Legrand proved equally adaptable, in part because their preoccupation with such a fundamental theme — love will both save and destroy the lover — ensured they'd survive whatever shifts in style they met.
Listening, one seems to stand still while the music circles, almost as if this were a passacaglia, with building and developing shapes and colors playing over a repeating fundamental theme, always present but only implied.
He pointed out that the opera was about fidelity and had the same fundamental theme as Elektra: 'the voice of Elektra opposed to the voice of Chrysothemis, the heroic voice against the human'.
