Banal observations by the performers echo from the speakers ("We have to do what we have to do") and substantially undercut the action.
He tries to get the trampoline bouncing again and then grunts loudly, which the performers echo, incorporating it into their chant and restarting the music and motion.
Many of the other performers echo Priscilla's sentiments.
Most of the performers echoed the inflections of Mr. Helm's singing, with its deep Southern memories in every unvarnished phrase.
Gaggled together in a makeshift dressing room behind the stage, littered with wigs, fake-eyelashes and mountains of sequins, the drag queens and performers echoed Sanchez's defiance in the face of a hate attack targeted directly at the gay community.
A number of the performers echoed those sentiments.
But performer Don Novello echoed the sentiments of many when he said, "Yeah, Davey was a pilot all right, but he was no test pilot.
The concept has spilled into the choreography, too, with dances developing out of calligraphic shapes formed by performers' bodies, echoing lines drawn by Tezuka's pen.
The publisher's standout performers included the Liverpool Echo, whose website notched up a 28.6% boost in readers, to 1,670,956, compared to the first six months of 2012.
Ms. Clarke also uses a single special effect: harnesses for the passages in which the performers take flight, echoing the surreal spatial relationships in the painting.
