Mr. Nichols, in rehearsal, often stepped back to let things happen.
During rehearsal, she stepped back to huddle with the prop master.
Without rehearsal, she stepped into a prominent role as the soubrette Meg when the actress performing the part (without an understudy), Karen Morrow, came down with pneumonia.
With time, these young teachers-to-be take on some of the rehearsals themselves, stepping in for the String Project's director, Gail Barnes, and its master teacher, Johanna Pollock.
Copies of the sheet music for the medieval melodies were passed out and Mr. Rosenbaum led the pilgrims in a brief rehearsal on the steps of the museum, relying on a small megaphone to be heard, though he was mostly hapless at using it.
"The other actors and I had spent so much time together in the workshops, we were able to skip an enormous number of steps in rehearsals and really burrow into these roles," Ms. O'Connell said.
At the final rehearsal, Avery has really stepped his game up.
Kajol revealed that she found dancing alongside Prabhu Deva difficult and it "took me 20 retakes and 30 rehearsals" to get the steps right.
But luckily, one day, after ABT company class and rehearsals, and before stepping out on the red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's star-studded annual Costume Institute Gala, Roberto took a few minutes to discuss his favorite choreographers and ballerinas, his upcoming Roberto Bolle and Friends, and what the future may have in store.
"Was I even at rehearsal?" He is fumbling the steps.
