Mr. Adler, a versatile performer with a comic flair, came from a show business family.
She told HuffPost she was targeting a performer who existed in a "comic space" and could stretch into dramatic characterizations, rather than the other way around -- Bill Murray in "Lost in Translation," for example.
One performer mentioned a comic who'd gotten banned from UCB for a sexual misconduct issue.
That's one award, undivided into male and female categories (useless distinctions to begin with in acting), bestowed on the performer who exhibits the most imagination in a comic role of any size.
Broadway star Patti LuPone will appear in the production in a comic cameo role as the Turkish performer Samira.
Because of his vivid personality and fondness for show business dish, Mr. Vilanch, serving as M.C. for the fourth time, steered it in a comic direction to the disadvantage of the more earnest performers.
In a comic dance that comes late in the ballet, there is a Grim Reaper who mows down the performers with his scythe.
If discussed, how could it be discussed but in a comic vein?
To date, the best performer in an on-screen pool of comic-based lurkers (as in "The Spirit"), lunatics (in "The Mask"), and antiheroes (in most) has been "Men in Black," about a pair of black-clad alien hunters, which attracted $250.1 million at the domestic box office when Sony Pictures released it nearly 13 years ago.
Sunday's most anticipated afternoon performer arrives exuberantly with a comic flair for dramatics.
He was a performer in a family of performers.
