If it does survive, it will be as a modest, itinerant troupe far removed from its glory days.
Modest-sized troupes — with ten dancers, say — are proliferating.
In a resonant bit of the double casting necessary for a troupe of modest means, the wives return in bathing caps, bounding across the stage and windmilling their arms like Furies in the guise of Esther Williams.
In Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the Irondale Ensemble Project is presenting "alice... Alice... ALICE!," a modest production capitalizing on the troupe's home, a former Sunday school space in the magnificent Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Yunhe then antagonizes her grandfather by running away to join a theater troupe, and wins modest acclaim when the leading lady becomes ill and she takes over the role because she is the only other actress who has memorized all the lines.
The troupe was formed as a modest, nonprofit lark by Mr. Strauss and two Washington colleagues, Elaina Newport and Jim Aidala.
The truth: It's not extreme enough to be considered alongside Crystal Castles, notwithstanding the burst of Atari bleeps at the start of Solo, the songs are a bit too "Visage B-side" for mainstream pop consumption, but they could find a modest gigging niche as a sort of cabaret electro troupe.
(In 1970 Clive Barnes wrote in The New York Times that the troupe's standards never drop below "at least modest accomplishment").
Utopia, concerning an attempt to "anglicise" a south Pacific island kingdom, was only a modest success, and The Grand Duke, in which a theatrical troupe, by means of a "statutory duel" and a conspiracy, takes political control of a grand duchy, was an outright failure.
This troupe and its inventive director, Albert Bergeret, accomplish a great deal on a modest budget.
