They have been given a genial set of male counterparts in Mr. Tudyk, Kevin Chamberlin and Bill Raymond, and a top-drawer production, featuring eye-popping sets by the tirelessly witty David Gallo.
Pennington said, "This guy has, in the most genial way, set the bar so high all my working life — that's my big speech, and I won't make another one — and it matters a great deal when he comes".
For the better part of three days, this spartan truth-seeker had to endure world-class spa treatments in a setting of genial luxury.
Paul Wall acknowledged him during a genial but rather dull set.
Mr. Hughes's book is smart and populated without ever exactly feeling ambitious; it reads like a set of genial biographical sketches.
There was also a genial but rather perfunctory set from the veteran Los Angeles act Cypress Hill, and another from Public Enemy, which endures despite some evident personal friction.
But Mr. McCartney had already played "Helter Skelter" to open his own set, a genial but idiosyncratic selection from his catalog that largely avoided hit singles and seemed to loosen up Mr. McCartney.
He's a spellbinding performer, but his ensemble piece "Men-Jaro" is, except for a solo of possession (for himself), more pleasant than transporting — a genial series of interactions set to an excellent score by Anthony Caplan, played live on traditional South African instruments.
The nocturnal scene is powerfully realised: "Mysterious goods trains, covered with palls and gliding on like vast weird funerals … the half miles of coal pursuing in a detective manner …" An encounter with a genial character called Lamps sets Jackson on his new and brighter course.
Expert execution is one thing, but an elegant setting and a genial bartender made my martini add up to more than the sum of its parts.
Surprisingly, the Zac Brown Band that appeared onstage Tuesday for a genial, sometimes effective two-hour set bore only a slight resemblance to the band on that record.
