Sentence examples for successful revue from inspiring English sources

And one missed that sine qua non of successful revue: a gripping, outgoing central personality for whose every entrance one waits and on whose every word one devotedly hangs.

Following up the successful revue "Our Sinatra," which he conceived and put together, the singer and pianist Eric Comstock has outdone himself with a witty, deeply musical pop-jazz show of mostly famous movie songs.

Herman Mankiewicz co-wrote "Citizen Kane"; Charles Brackett wrote "Sunset Boulevard" and "Lost Weekend"; Robert Benchley acted; Dorothy Parker wrote lyrics; Tynan was the Literary Manager of London's National Theatre and produced the theatre's most successful revue, "Oh, Calcutta".

Pending DNA test results are expected to show that Mr. Turnpike is closely related to, or perhaps the very same person as, Isaiah Sheffer, the artistic director of Symphony Space, who has concocted this interesting if not entirely successful revue to inaugurate what he hopes will be a series called Summer Stock on Broadway.

Since 1969, they have put out a half-dozen record albums, written two books, mounted a successful revue at the Drury Lane Theatre, in London, and produced an original movie, "Monty Python and the HoIy Grail," which was the best comedy of 1975 and is also one of the most authentic-looking films ever made about the Arthurian legend.

He turned up in the early '60s, with Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore, as a performer and co-writer of the successful revue Beyond the Fringe.

Two years after Thurber's death in 1961, she also produced a second (less successful) Thurber revue, "The Beast in Me"; Thurber himself was a friend, not least for a zinging, occasionally bawdy wit that Ms. Stoddard exhibited herself.

As their stage show, which starts a national tour this month, makes clear, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor were friends, flatmates and Footlights colleagues of Cleese, Idle, et al. They performed in the same successful student revue, Cambridge Circus, which ended up on Broadway.

After getting off the ground in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, "Smokey Joe's Café" opened on Broadway in 1995 and ran for more than five years, tallying more than 2,000 performances and becoming the most successful musical revue in Broadway history.

One of the dancers who was briefly glimpsed in these excerpts was Katherine Dunham, a vibrant performer and a choreographer who combined anthropological research with show-business flair in many internationally successful dance revues of the 1940's and 50's.

Eric Comstock, singer, pianist, aesthetic heir of Bobby Short and droll walking reference book of traditional American pop-jazz, was the brains behind the successful Off Broadway revue "Our Sinatra".