Our sweet stage manager ran out with the script, and I had to follow that script word by word because I didn't know what came next.
Encumbered by a backpack and helmet, Toad's inability to leap between platforms turns each short yet sweet stage into a gauntlet of logic puzzles with a star and three hidden crystals waiting to be discovered.
But what they offer in exchange for your compliance beyond mediocre pay is stage time, sweet, sweet stage time, which is like mana for comedians.
And as played with enormous presence and easy style by Tituss Burgess, he is the comic center of "A Wind in the Willows Christmas," the sweet, expertly staged holiday offering at the Two River Theater Company in Red Bank.
The treatments consisted in the sweet sorghum phenological stages, which were pre-flowering, flowering, milk dough, soft dough, mealy dough, hard dough and senescence.
"It's almost sweet at this stage".
But it's a sweet, smart re-staging which excels when it delivers what its title so bluntly promises.
Two years ago, at Madison Square Garden for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary concert, Lou Reed was saying goodbye to the members of Metallica after they all jammed out a rendition of his song "Sweet Jane" on stage.
The bar was certainly raised with a performance of Twyla Tharp's exquisite but rarely seen "Sweet Fields" (1996), staged for the company by Elaine Kudo and set to 18th-century American hymns by William Billings.
Although still at an early stage, Sweet Hydrogen and the idea of sugar-fuelled cars have already attracted funds from Shell as well as from a number of research institutes in the US, such as the Biodesign and Bioprocessing Research Center at Virginia Tech, the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center and its Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
