Sentence examples for revue format from inspiring English sources

And when the songs are wonderful, the revue format will do nicely.

It was clearer than ever that the series's long-standing revue format has gone stale.

"The revue format is something we have completely lost, particularly to television," says the director Douglas Hodge.

This London jazz festival gig was a chance to allow them greater exposure, but its revue format didn't quite do them justice.

"For Lovers Only" is a victim of a hackneyed revue format that confuses posing with acting, in which anonymous musical arrangements obliterate any serious attempts at interpretation.

In order for her characters to lay substantial claim on the imagination, they need a story larger than the repetitive revue format that the show provides.

Revue formats of this sort demand performers who are both impressive at impressions and able to switch at speed between costumes and styles.

In "One Mo' Time," Mr. Bagneris, who conceived, wrote and directed both shows, took a standard nostalgia-revue format and gave it a mild political twist by following its four black vaudevillians backstage.

Donald McKayle, credited with the original concept of the show, took the overworked and often tedious musical-revue format — there is no narrative — and injected it with enough panache and pace to keep things interesting.

The performers will play a few songs each, a throwback to the postwar rhythm-revue format, in which a handful of artists appeared on one bill, backed by a single band (led here by the Los Angeles guitarist Nick Waterhouse).

Bennett's first stage play, Forty Years On, opened in 1968, a nostalgic, revue-format look at England in the form of a public school concert.