What if some dude working the rubber vat wore his favorite elephant skin cap and, as he reached over to check something, that cap fell into the rubber vat, broke down, and dispersed throughout a batch of show-sole rubber?
Ms. Falco received the show's sole Tony Award nomination, for her performance as Bananas.
Riki Kane, the founder of the show's sole corporate sponsor, Metrokane, said, "The show has been tremendous for us".
Even the show's sole novelty, an act involving three budgies hopping on and off a music stand, has an air of uncertainty.
And last Tuesday, KCET, the PBS station in Los Angeles that is co-producing the series, convinced Johnson & Johnson to become the show's sole corporate underwriter.
Race is not their show's sole concern, and they have a way of switching the familiar "race card" for something more like the whole pack fanned out.
Their long-simmering mutual crush was the show's sole gesture toward the optimistic American "arc," in which characters go on a journey together and are rewarded.
Mr. Martin is the producer and the show's sole backer -- for $7,500: an amount, he suggested, that he might have spent on a long summer vacation.
The show's sole producer, Joyce Johnson, said in a statement that "the play simply does not work in a Broadway house".
Ms. Epstein, the show's sole financial backer, said that "4 Guys" cost about $500,000 to produce and is recovering costs but not making money yet.
The show's sole female artist, Yu Hong, paid homage to the 12th-century scroll "Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk" by — beautifully — transforming its figures into contemporary women.
