The new question is whether English will consume other tongues or generate a multiplicity of dialects.Performing on an empty yet virtually teeming global stage is bound to alter how artists conceive their work, Ms Wood observes.
The rest of the cast, which includes Christian Borle ("Legally Blonde") and Celia Keenan-Bolger ("The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee"), will play some 50 roles, a challenge that should be familiar territory for Mr. Rees: he won a Tony Award for his performance in the character-teeming stage version of "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby".
Here is needed comic relief, and Kevin Newbury, the director, made the most of it with teeming and entertaining stage activity.
It remains a truly spectacular location; the stage teeming with some 250 local performers against a row of gaunt, gothic arches that, as darkness descends, appear to take a giant bite out of the night sky.
Though you couldn't easily count the players on a stage teeming with them, it seems safe to say that all 21 of the percussionists listed in the program (in addition to the timpanist) were holding forth, and the middle section, with its welter of meters and tempos, took 5 conductors (including Mr. Austin) working simultaneously to hold it together.
Many in the cast of 17 cycle through multiple roles, keeping the stage teeming with characters.
Mr. Bush said he was "startled" by the "mind boggling," "miraculous" and "incredible" city he saw from the windows of his limousine, though what he saw was mostly colored lights and clean-swept streets cleared of Shanghai's teeming population, a staged version of Shanghai not unlike Pyongyang, in fact.
As he rapped, instruments were rolled into place behind him, and a small choir in white shirts took its place, adding a couple of dozen more bodies to a stage already teeming with them.
Broadway Babies With nine shows featuring child actors, Broadway stages are teeming with little ones right now, and the business of tending to them is booming.
With nine shows featuring child actors, Broadway stages are teeming with little ones right now, and the business of tending to them is booming — meaning tutors, casting agents, kids-only dressing rooms and minders (otherwise known as "wranglers") who greet the youthful performers at the stage door, keeping backstage a no-parents zone.
