In 2013 there was almost a 39-point gap between the best performer, retailing, and the worst performer, materials, a portmanteau category covering miners, chemical manufacturers and the paper and packaging industry.
Both the choreography and the songs, composed by Paul Katz and Howard Marren with lyrics by Mr. Katz, give the performers enough material to make something vivid of the characters.
In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, the producer Hal Willner created a series of superb tribute albums that specialized in surprising combinations of performers and material.
It's a revelation to me".. Above all, Jungr, who says she's a fan of Eliza Carthy, Gillian Welch and Meghan Trainor among other contemporary female performers, favors material with an edge, even if she doesn't like to "intellectualize" her set lists too much beforehand.
Her vocals, pushed way out in front of the mix, are reminders that an intimate connection between performer and material makes for an intimate connection between material and audience.
The show's nifty matches of performer to material included Mr. Naughton's "Westport," an obscure comic number about suburban adultery from a 1957 Julius Monk revue; Mr. Harris's boyish "I Won't Grow Up" (from "Peter Pan and Ms. Booneone's torchy, lovelorn "On Second Thought".
There is no distance between the performers and the material.
(Mr. Bennett used recordings of talks with performers as raw material).
"The Taking of Pelham" reunited Peter Stone with one of the best performers of his material: Walter Matthau.
If the performers had better material, their dancing would be put to a real test.
