In 1955, Hollywood knew how to stage this sort of thing: scores of marching trumpeters, drummers, pipers and maraca players; hundreds of cavalry camels; and almost 10,000 extras supplied by the Egyptian government.
On Tuesday he celebrated his 80th birthday here — a city where he no longer lives but never entirely left — by juking into a reception space at the Newark Museum behind marching-band drummers from Weequahic High School, his alma mater.
Tunes of Glory Picture 10,000 bagpipers and drummers marching up the Avenue of the Americas from 43rd Street, west on Central Park South and north along West Drive in Central Park to Tavern on the Green.
Dodo and Osmar changed that irrevocably the first time they ventured out in their four-door Ford as the Dupla Eletrica (Electric Duo), with two loudspeakers on the front of the car and a few drummers marching around it.
At the end of Act II, in the Latin Quarter scene outside the Cafe Momus, there was one near train wreck: when the military band strode onto the massive set, the on-stage players and the orchestra in the pit sounded like they were marching to different drummers.
In the street, I passed two huge red dragons and a marching band of drummers.
"RISE for Revolution, WALK for Revolution" led by underprivileged children, college students, survivors and citizens of Kolkata featured street theater, drummers, marching and dancing in Jatin Das Park.
Four simultaneous marches led by drummers converged on the building.
Could his pipers and drummers march a little more slowly, to stretch things out?
Behind the drummers marched a small band of NAACP officers and other organizers, including W.E.B.
