The room, snugly closed off from a shanty town of flight cases, stage lights and wires behind the sweeping stage is lined with sofas, on which the eight finalists sit.
Without employing cold arrogance, they tackle the choreography with a knowing sassiness, and rarely has the dance looked as beautiful as on the expansive, sweeping stage of the Rose Theater.
Redundancy within the remaining 161 modules was further reduced by the sweeping stage.
After marrying, the couple headed for Los Angeles, where Vercoutere found work at the area's movie studios, first sweeping stages, then as a welder and carpenter.
He started out sweeping the stage, stayed on for about five months and then one thing started leading to another.
He did not train at drama school but started sweeping the stage at the Belgrade in Coventry when that theatre opened in 1958.
Corey Baker's "Colors on a Canvas," performed by Ballet Noir, the company Mr. Baker directs with Leyland Simmons, is accompanied by three musicians and features eight bare-chested men sweeping the stage with virtuosic pirouettes and leaps.
"We were wandering through the woods looking for the stage," says Native American Guy, "and people thought we were you!" Of course, it's The Village People, remarkably lithe for their advancing years and still pretty handy with an unchallenging dance routine, although the bit where Biker Guy does a move like he's sweeping the stage may well be a reflex action.
Sweeping the stage in the last act, the eye picks up delicate combinations of soft pink, peach and mauve, slashes of bold but unobtrusive pumpkin orange, and brightly colored stripes that cuff the long sleeves that figure prominently in one group dance for corps women.
Sweeping on stage and pawing that golden boy like a jungle cat, Joan basked in the limelight, starting with, "Miss Bancroft said, 'Here's my little speech, Dear Joan.'" Dear Joan continued while Ms. Davis steamed in her seat, feeling more like Crawford's Blanche, never being able to leave that chair.
As the performance opens, the apparent leader of the pack, a blond, muscular, liberally tattooed chap, is sweeping the stage, but his broom quickly becomes a musical instrument and he's joined by the rest of the cast until all eight sixx guys, two gals) are firing off a rat-tat-tat-boom melody in skillful syncopation.
