Charlotte Moore has directed a fine cast in a well-paced and low-key staging.
The low-key staging had a weird intimacy that emboldened Katherine Heigl of "Grey's Anatomy," who presented an award and also won for supporting actress in a dramatic series, to wryly correct the announcer's mispronunciation of her name.
It is a testament to the genius of Samuel Beckett that after 60 years, Waiting for Godot can still astonish with its cutting-edge brilliance, even in a low-key staging like the one Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are now starring in at the Cort Theatre.
The force behind Grimm & Co is Deborah Bullivant, an academic tasked in 2011 with turning around consistently low key stage 2 literacy results among disadvantaged children in the area.
Eschewing the lasers, pyrotechnics and Day-Glo fashions of previous tours, things are kept relatively low-key; the stage is basically two large light boxes joined by a floating bit of Perspex, while the muted outfits seem to take inspiration from Kanye's all-beige-everything Yeezy line.
The CPL's first competition - held in 1997 when the organisation was founded - was a low-key event, staged in a Dallas office building.
But, with the top tier of Celtic Park closed, most of the noise in the low-key early stages came from the travelling supporters.
That, however, had less to do with the low-key events on stage than with the presence of Mick Jagger in the front stalls.
Two groups sought to stage low-key, symbolic protests yesterday: one laid out 972 pairs of combat boots and 1,000 pairs of civilian shoes, around Cherry Hill Fountain in Central Park to commemorate soldiers and civilians killed in Iraq.
