"Billy Elliot" is a small, heartfelt and keenly observed musical that intermittently feels the need to act like a loud, splashy, sock-it-to-'em crowd pleaser.
Then, if we do break out, elevating ourselves in class if only intermittently, we feel obliged to hide part of ourselves.
As one woman said, "Well, I tried to find other therapists, and I saw one intermittently, and I feel like it's not really that helpful, so haven't continued in that".
About a minute later, unable to move except intermittently, I began to feel the darkness of unconsciousness welling up behind my eyes as Lipps Inc's 'Funkytown' continued unabated. .
This tidal influence begins to be felt intermittently, for some three hours during a high tide, at Teddington in the west suburbs of London.
Although Hay tries to turn Melville and his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne into real characters through extensive quotations from their letters, these sections only intermittently crackle with felt life.
How are we to feel, ultimately, about the intermittently racist Iz of "Zagrowsky Tells"?
And anyone who sampled it intermittently as I did this week can't help but feel that the joint effort of organizers, audiences, volunteer ticket takers and, of course, performers, is a buoying one for the theatrical world.
The villagers look somber, but also intermittently restless and bored, which is also how you may feel.
This is not the case, however, with "Ravelstein," a chatty, intermittently engaging work that feels more like a fictionalized portrait than a fully fashioned novel.
