Now, imagine a stage full of people, all of them going through the same process.
On a stage full of show-offs, he was a staunch literalist.
"The Poetry of Physics," a group piece set to Rossini, features a stage full of red billiard balls.
There was a stage full of veterans, led by a retired four-star general who barked like a drill sergeant.
Both promise the Nutcracker staples: Christmas magic and snow, and a stage full of glitter-clad dancers.
The audience enters the theater to find the stage full of reclining young people dressed in white, talking and laughing.
That's why its 2000 convention offered a stage full of break dancers and gospel singers, wildly outnumbering the black delegates in the audience.
It's one of the great instruments of the English-speaking stage, full of what Norman Mailer called (in reference to Truman Capote) "snide rustlings and unforgiving nasalities".
Even having Mr. Golisano in the mix would have been better for the Democrat than a stage full of candidates known to few voters, political strategists said.
Nature, central to the story, is expressed by a stage full of realistic brown "earth" and a huge, toppled tree trunk of raw beauty.
The scrim goes up, and the cartoon dissolves into a stage full of flipping acrobats, a monkey tribe flying from bamboo pole to bamboo pole.
