He wanted to stage a "gift concert" for the city on July 28 at which his friend James Taylor and the Boston Pops would perform, but was turned down by officials who feared it would attract up to 50,000 people at a time when security forces were already stretched.
Mr. Keilly, 36, operates GBK Productions, one of 6 companies staging major gift events for the rich and famous in conjunction with the Golden Globes, down from 10 the year before.
As he moved out onto the wider stage, his gifts as a dancer were still evident, as was his attraction to the theatrical: a crabbed walk, a foot turned in uncomfortably, dragging along the floor; moving a leaden leg by hand.
By this stage, elaborate gifts are beyond your capability, and keeping it simple is the name of the game.
Board games, dolls and stuffed animals in various stages of gift-wrapping were scattered across a long table in her living room.
The playwright and actor Ms. Orlandersmith ("Yellowman," "The Gimmick") has long demonstrated a theatrical intelligence, ferocious stage presence and gift for staccato language.
The original maple surfaced stage was a gift from Stratford Ontario, and has been recycled as the floor for the actors' greenroom: the stars of the next half century will be treading the same boards as Olivier.
A rhythm action game starring motivational cheerleaders may be the last place you'd expect evidence of this but the Christmas Gift stage in Nintendo's Elite Beat Agents offers just that, telling the story of young Lucy and her mom trying to cope with their first Christmas alone.
All her drawings for the stage demonstrated precocious gifts, a facility of touch and a palette of singing colours.
A British stage director's gifts are in short supply on the West Coast: at least they can talk to actors, whereas too many American filmmakers converse principally with special effects.
He had a stage-actor's gift for outsize facial expressions, so jurors could read varieties of incredulity on his face from across the room.
