They're highly entertaining adventures for 9+ and the central characters - Edwin and Perpetua - transported to Hysteria from the 'real' world, are a splendid double act.
Two River Theater in Red Bank has mounted a visually splendid, impeccably acted production of this mordantly funny, deeply cynical yet poignant theatrical tour de force.
If Blomkamp has cut corners elsewhere by borrowing from cult science fiction's rich soup of over-the-top futuristic silliness, there is nothing ersatz about Copley's splendid headline act.
Last night O'Leary was joined by some splendid 80s throwback acts – Five Star and Go West were stand-outs.
There is a splendid touch in Act III when Tatiana dances with Gremin at her palace ball.
In Robert Carsen's 1997 production of "Eugene Onegin," for the Met, the splendid polonaise of Act III was not danced at Prince Gremin's ball, where Tchaikovsky meant it to be.
The New Year began with the first of several chats involving duos, including the gifted husband-and-wife team of Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland, former solo acts whose splendid album came out in their Canadian homeland a few months earlier.
There is Miss Annie de Montford, born Annie Riley, a mill worker turned mesmerist, who claimed her mind "ruled the world" even after a New England newspaper called her act "a splendid temple of humbug".
Nonetheless Caroline Rocher, the new ghost of Giselle in this act was splendid on Friday night as a womanly wraith with a voluptuous touch who movingly forgave her seducer, danced again by Kip Sturm.
