A sponsor is typically a senior leader or influential individual who identifies strong performers, guides them on their career path, and advocates on their behalf for leadership positions across the enterprise.
Legislators, who believed the inflated claims of the data-driven crowd, were willing to foot the bill for a metric which supposedly would remove ineffective teachers, reward the top performers, and guide the improvement of the rest.
Performers are guided through the song-writing process by Grammy-winning producers, and industry gurus have long relied on formulas of one sort or another in an attempt to anticipate -- even guarantee -- the success of a new song or a new artist.
And how those performers, superbly guided by veteran conductor John DeMain, deliver Kern's score with such freshness and nuance.
BARBARA BARSTOW is a medley of performer, teacher and guide, molding new musicians while saving what she she sees as an endangered species from extinction.
Each night a crew of more than 60 technical people, street performers and tour-guide actors with improv-comedy experience tries to combine these diverse styles into an atypical tourist bus ride that costs $59 or $65, depending on the departure time.
While Mr. Lopez composed music in a side room, Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker sat at the back of the main rehearsal space, watching giddily as Casey Nicholaw, who is co-directing "The Book of Mormon" with Mr. Parker and choreographing the musical, guided performers through a number called "I Am Africa".
Unlike DEA, the ANN DEA approach guides weaker performers on how to improve their performance to different efficiency ratings for the future.
Mr. Bazinet's job is to help guide 15 performers of diverse backgrounds into a comic unit called the Movers.
