Though modest, the play is also helping businesses, like Ottomanelli Brothers, a butcher shop in Greenwich Village, where Mr. Schmidt buys 15 pounds of boneless lamb shoulder every week.
Mr. Escoffery's fee was modest, but his playing was so impressive, Mr. Danko recalled, that normally reluctant businesspeople would often donate money to the program.
The play is too modest to live up to this.
Even in England, where the standard of play is more modest, running a team for a season will leave you with little change from £1 million.
(Ken Jaworowski) 'The Train Driver' (closes on Sunday) Athol Fugard's latest play is a modest two-hander about a man (the fine Ritchie Coster) haunted by the death of a woman who stepped in front of the train he was driving, killing herself and her baby.
Wearing jeans, a vest and short sleeves, Mr. Gandelsman looked folksy, and his playing was accordingly unpretentious, modest and clear, with irresistible lightness, a bright trill and a preternatural (perhaps premature) wistfulness.
Backstage accommodations for the players are more modest, but the plays are well served with the latest technology.
A few months before their marriage John playfully addressed to Abigail a "Catalogue of your Faults" that included such flaws as neglecting card-playing, being too modest and spending too much time "Reading, Writing and Thinking".
But so in a far more modest way was another play, "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice," by a second northern English writer, Jim Cartwright, whose grubby, grasping, booze-soaked terrain must seem like another planet to the inevitably middle-class constituency of the National's mailing list.
Although their audiences are still relatively modest, they are playing an increasingly vital role in the conversation, largely because they question the country's dominant power structures.
