The series, titled "Nature Preserves," stemmed from an earlier project navigating the bizarre spaces of natural history museums, carefully staged to replicate the work of mother nature.
In the first stage, we attempted to replicate 20 of the 29 exact published SNPs (i.e. direct replication) available in the HUFS dataset.
In Stage II, we attempted to replicate 35 significant markers identified in Stage I in an independent study of 1,153 cases and 1,215 controls.
From the beginning, the show flirts with the audience's idea of the musical: the curtain goes up on a stage designed by Christopher Oram to replicate the Donmar's brick back wall; the neon which beams out the show's title is faulty - it sputters.
"Paupers Field" is meditative and pretty and woozy, states of being that Mr. LeBlanc, all of 20 years old, hasn't yet learned to replicate on stage.
Third time out, he and producer Alex McGowan have not only nailed the live act, they've gone further, creating a monster that could be a challenge to replicate on stage.
I'd done shows with trees and forests in them, and to try and reproduce anything from nature is always terrible – in nature everything is always moving, and that's terribly hard to replicate on stage.
One admires these feats of music with a joy and serenity that the vast majority of new music coming out of the concert hall and the opera stage is at a loss to replicate.
On the other hand, stage directors handed a camera to replicate their success on screen have also come a cropper with some regularity, as Harold Prince did on the notoriously awful film version of "A Little Night Music," and later by Susan Stroman on "The Producers" and now Phyllida Lloyd, the director of "Mamma Mia!" on both stage and screen.
Even if these were staged, they'd be hard to replicate in exact detail every time, so despite the fact that Waymo clearly had more control here than they would out in the real world, the driving experience was still impressive.
