The evening ended with the talented, personable performers changing the pace and singing songs from Broadway shows.
An article last Sunday about the Ziegfeld Club, a charity for former Ziegfeld Follies performers, changing its mission to support creative women on Broadway misstated the first year the "Follies" were staged at the New Amsterdam Theater.
Elvis went on in songs like "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (which in my book belongs to Dusty Springfield) and "Jailhouse Rock" (which is his alone), and Ms. Barnes's six performers, changing costume items, covered more and more space.
But she knows that she is first and foremost a performer - changing attitudes is secondary.
Oh, I would never wear add fake hair to my head.' But over the years, that has changed a lot with people just being aware of what goes on behind the scenes on a fashion shoot to performers today changing their hairstyle the same time they change their outfit," she said.
In "Pour Antigone," which will be repeated tonight and tomorrow at La Guardia High School (100 Amsterdam Avenue, at 64th Street), the highly individualized performers keep changing costumes.
"Everyone will tell you that Dylan is nothing more than a great lyricist," I told him, but Dylan the performer, the constantly changing interpreter of his own work, was the thing no one seemed to pay attention to, worthy of study and exploration.
The performers are always changing, but on the last two evenings I attended, an unamplified voice cut through the noise of the crowd and took over the entire room.
Veteran performer changes scene.
"I love when you're actually changing a performer's physicality.
