In Rob Ashford's revival of the 1968 musical "Promises, Promises," which opened on Sunday night at the Broadway Theater, the male members of the chorus demonstrate that wearing skinny suits needn't keep corporate executives from playing leap frog, turning cart wheels, bouncing off desks or frugging like, well, mad men.
Some examples can be playing "Ring a Ring o' Roses" in the mud, playing Leap Frog in the mud, and so on.
Accordingly, for the first half of the eight-minute work Ms. Sopp played leaping lines that raced amid roiling, jagged ensemble textures, abrasive outbursts and sardonic trombone glissandos.
In verses, the guitarist Johnny Smith played in slowly articulated chords, moving easily from one impossible close-voicing to another; in choruses he played leaping eighth notes like a smoothed-out Charlie Christian.
At times, I even sensed Orpheus himself in my writing room; I sensed him on stage when I went to listen to music; I felt how he responded to what was being played, leaping with delight, or turning away in disappointment.
Raul Esparza will be singing a tune from his critically-acclaimed play Leap of Faith.
The Lunchtime Enjoyment of Activity and Play (LEAP) Questionnaire was used to measure children's enjoyment of school play activities [ 56].
Just one study, the Australian Live, Eat, and Play (LEAP) intervention, has supported evaluations of the cost of a primary care-based obesity intervention trial [ 9- 11].
Two phases of the Australian Live, Eat, and Play (LEAP) intervention, the only other primary care-based child obesity prevention program for which costs have been evaluated, were more costly than High Five for Kids.
There's a virtuoso, long-lasting shot that takes Eric Bana down the steps of a Berlin subway entrance and into a large chamber where he fights off four men; and then an intricately choreographed chase through a cargo-container storage yard, with Saoirse Ronan and a bunch of actors playing thugs leaping and twisting among the large rectangular units.
Haydn's seemed to enjoy having it both ways, and the Emersons took him at his word, playing the leaping and galloping figures of the "Rider" Quartet zestily, if not quite brashly, and giving the work's Largo assai and Menuetto an impeccable sheen.
