This one is based on the cheerfully unreconstructed Soviet staging, with its ebulliently tweaked storyline and substantive, beefed-up dance numbers.
What Salmond did not know was that the Tories had already discussed staging their own referendum.
Buoyed by increasingly positive polling, Salmond decided to carefully unfurl his hopes of staging a referendum as late as 2014 or 2015 in the final week of the campaign.
England have not finished ahead since 1986, when the Games were last held in Scotland and 32 teams did not turn up because they were staging a boycott.
They accuse the mainstream republicans of staging a grossly insensitive march which they say denigrates and insults the memories of those murdered in the conflict by the IRA.
On Wednesday, 29 public sector unions representing 2.6m workers, are staging a mass strike in protest at aphalanx of proposed changes to pension schemes which, they say, will mean their members have to contribute more and work longer for a worse deal at the end.
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) is staging rolling action in various parts of the UK on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to highlight its concerns about staff shortages.
In his live performances he is a master of that kind of conviction: his most recent show, at Radio City Music Hall in New York, a staging of his latest album Swanlights, saw him bathed in the green glow of lasers, accompanied by a 60-piece orchestra while keening rapturously about a vision of "being dead, underwater and filled with crystals of light".
I loved the choice of venue for Macbeth, and the mud was a very visceral and interesting staging decision.
The biggest irony is that, just as Slovakia was consummating its marriage with the west, Mr Meciar was staging a comeback, giving the west, and many Slovaks, the jitters.
Headlong's fabulous, terrifying staging of 1984 returns to the Playhouse, London for a limited run.
