Nobody gets rich playing football here.
Still, that's the only way this layered and surprisingly rich play feels dated.
Only the rich play on the Chinese stock market and their activities have little bearing on corporate investment.
Mr. Gilbert drew bold, rich playing from the orchestra while sensitively supporting Mr. Buchbinder's approach to the piece, which was often lyrically expansive and free.
Over all, though, he drew mellow, rich playing from the orchestra and full-bodied singing from the impressive Westminster Symphonic Choir.
For this he earned £35m and it would be like asking a singer who has grown fat and rich playing Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas to do a world tour.
The point of everything that Cain wrote is that a green light on the end of the dock is a sick joke that the rich play on the poor; the whole point of "Gatsby" is that the sick jokes that the rich play on the poor can nonetheless be turned into a green light on the end of the dock, forever radiant to the willing mind.
Just before the Atlantic League game between the Newark Bears and the visiting Bridgeport Bluefish last night, the New York State Lottery theme song with the refrain, "If I had a million dollars, I'd be rich," played through the public-address system.
But this rich play, which receives a rare and powerful staging by Jim Simpson at the Flea Theater, resists simple characterizations, and its explorations of leadership and honor during wartime make it more than just a historical curiosity.
That means cleaning out the shareholders in failed institutions, making bondholders take a haircut, and canceling the stock options of executives who got rich playing heads I win, tails you lose.
