The jubilant reaction on the face of the show's director, Michael Mayer, expressed the major accomplishment it was for Mr. Ashford, especially because he won over Broadway's queen of choreography, Susan Stroman, who was nominated for her work on "Oklahoma!" For her performance as a sinister rooming house matron in "Millie," Harriet Harris won the Tony for featured actress in a musical.
He takes me into a sinister private room where I imagine they deliver bad news, but he says it went well, whips out a pen, and draws me a picture on a pad hanging on the wall detailing how he spent his past eight hours.
Throughout "Sinister," the rooms remain darker than crypts, whether at breakfast or dinnertime, and the sound design causes everything in the house to moan and groan in consort with the hero's worrisome quest.
His tireless cross-examination revealed violent police interrogation practices, with prisoners suspended upside down from iron bars and electrodes clamped to testicles and women's breasts, conducted in a sinister waarheidskamer (truth room).
This has not gone unnoticed by the curators, who have placed some of his pieces in a sinister, dark back room that evokes the gallery where the Black Paintings hang in Madrid.
They're like bristling three-dimensional history paintings: messy offices, banal living rooms, sinister hideouts, piles of old appliances or towers of newspapers, with each space telling its own story.
At the du Pont compound, Miller ushers us into one version of the world of the über-wealthy: a fusion of impossibly huge and tasteful rooms, sinister corporate servants and monumentally indulgent behaviour.
The mood is vaguely sinister in the first room, with Naomi Fisher's fluorescent pink and orange renderings of demonic young women; Andrea Hanak's little paintings of flowers apparently vandalized with smears of brown and black; and Martin McMurray's even smaller woodland scenes, in brown and red, of an antic if dangerous violent hunting trip.
Your walls can't be the only sinister element in the room, they need some help from the décor.
If your parents say not to make your room so sinister just don't do it.
