His prodigious responsibilities combined roles that today we know as leading actor, director, producer, marketing manager, literary manager, head of PR and head of fundraising.
Soon, the couple have become a role-swapped Sid and Nancy, her desire to keep in sync with his prodigious drug use proving catastrophic.
Even the role of prodigious teen guitar hero is one he is aware of playing: in a video from 2013, he declares, "I wanted it to be an escape.
The essential harmonic stasis of Sculthorpe's music allowed him to retrofit another fundamentally Australian sound, the didjeridu, to a number of his scores when he met the young player William Barton in 2001, and his Requiem for chorus and orchestra (2004), one of his largest works, was written to give Barton's prodigious virtuosity a central role.
And what of the three other girls with whom Ms. Ingram alternates in the role of a prodigious intellect who not only reads Dostoevsky but can also speak Russian?
(Mike Colter underplays as Stewart, as do Kofi Soriboe and Larenz Tate, as two paramours; all three seem aware that a man's role in such prodigious company is mostly to be quiet and look pretty).
While Brahms's output of symphonies, concertos and chamber and solo instrumental works was so prodigious that it overshadowed his role as a composer of songs, he was likewise prolific in that genre: he wrote 250 lieder and arranged more than 140 folk songs for voice and piano.
David Blum of The New York Sun reported that the producers of Will & Grace wasted Baldwin's "prodigious talents on a supporting role this past season, when it's clear he could effortlessly carry his own network series".
Over the decades Hurt's workload has remained prodigious, although he takes fewer starring roles than in the 1980s.
From the start, any suggestion that many urban gay men's prodigious sex in the 1970s played any role in the development of AIDS was the third rail of AIDS politics.
