Unfortunately, she was referring not to the stone megalith, but to the 18-inch stage trinket in "This Is Spinal Tap".
Every inch of stage space is used.
"Things," performed to a slyly clunky score by Greg Hale Jones, sets six women and one man whirling across every inch of stage space.
The belt tapered to 8 inches at the lower edge and thinned in stages.
A four-seat convertible with a retractable top, it is an amalgam of some of Buick's most famous designs: a grille and lighted trunk logo from 1939, a "torpedo" body of the 40's, a 455-cubic-inch GS Stage III V-8 engine from 1970 and interior touches from the '96 Riviera.
As I came running in to the auditorium to challenge Tybalt, they went crazy, jumping out of their seats and rushing up to the 10-inch high stage yelling: "Get him, Romeo!" When I was 15, I played Juliet in the Young Vic youth theatre's version of Romeo and Juliet.
By the time the music was scheduled to start at 8 30, the masses were already huddled by the inches high stage.
In his stage shows, Inch would offer a prize of more than twenty thousand dollars in today's currency to anyone who could lift the dumbbell off the floor with one hand.
Then they inched across the stage in a line, swaying gently and brushing their hands against their faces.
Perceval directed the production, in austere fashion; the sets were minimal and abstract, with actors and singers inching about the stage in the Robert Wilson fashion.
In the first act finale one of those typical Rossini ensembles in which everyone stops cold to express bewilderment at the confounding mess they're in, there were shades of Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor as the six main characters inched across the stage in a jumbled choreography of hand slaps to reeling heads and impotent air punches.
