I think Phaedra has the most wonderful ideas when it comes to putting things together.
"We wondered, how are we going to do this in this tragic time, with a cloud looming over everyone?" "And the most wonderful thing was when we came out and sang 'The Star-Spangled Banner' onstage, with the orchestra and the cast," she remembered.
Ms. Reitz's most wonderful scene comes when she lies down on the floor beside one such point of light as if it were the face of her beloved; she cradles it with her hand, lies close to it, and then suddenly turns onto her side to face it, as if they were in bed together.
It is also, of course, the most wonderful thing in the world when it works out, when it's done properly, when the participating humans are stable and unselfish enough to steer it through storms and squalls into a safe haven.
Maybe a lot of people wouldn't guess it but you can be the most wonderful aunt, godmother, nursemaid, when the mood takes you.
Definitely not the most wonderful time of year when your house burns down because of poorly thought-out Christmas spirit.
Mendel's eyes glitter as she talks: "It will be the most wonderful day in the world when all the Arabs will become Jews and observe the commandments and love the Lord and when the Messiah comes, there will be no one in the land of our fathers who does not love the Lord and Judaism with all their heart".
"You have the most wonderful job," he told me when he sat down.
But for thrifty jazz fans, August is the the most wonderful time of the year, when festivals take to city parks and the big names play free.
The mid-American family at the heart of Matthew Freeman's fearless new satire, "The Most Wonderful Love," is decidedly fractured when the play begins.
