Blue stage glow, dramatic pause.
The stage, glowing under blue lights, resembles an abandoned lot full of Keith Haring drawings.
The whole stage glowed a deeper red than was seen under the Blair years (when the stage was at times a delicate salmon pink, or dominated by images of the union flag).
Far from trotting out a tired round up of his repitoire, he still takes to the stage glowing with all the pride of your Dad that time you won the "Most Improved Player" certificate at Saturday morning football practice.
Every summer on Hammarso, while Isak stages glowing pageants of art and life featuring his wives and daughters, real life-and-death struggles are being waged by those same people in the real world — they're not celluloid, they're flesh and blood, closer to characters in "Lord of the Flies" than "Persona".
The small but sublime moment during "Harry Hood," when fans near the stage tossed glow sticks and glow rings in the air, creating a neat visual echo of the neon circles that surround the stadium lights.
The sashimi is presented on a kind of carved-ice stage and glows as if it were in a Terrence Malick movie.
When Lewis retreats to the ballads – for a seven-song stretch ending with a Coldplay-ified version of Bleeding Love, replete with tumbling confetti and stage lights glowing Milk Tray purple – this becomes a show desperately in need of an adrenaline injection.
The beefy and so often bare-chested men charging about the stage, the glowing women rushing to and fro with sometimes gratuitous smiles and other exaggerated facial expressions, the phrases that give us the same jump or stride or run several times in quick succession: all these can seem a bit too simple and old-fashioned for comfort.
The shoulder buttons switch between fire and ice powers – the hot stuff melts blocks in the opening Glacier Forest stage, while glowing a silvery white means that magically right-angled bodies of water will instantly freeze when you touch them.
