McDonald plays one of the leads of the original Shuffle Along, the singer and actress Lottie Gee.
Wendy Whelan, dancing with abandon, and Damian Woetzel could do no wrong as the leads of an energetic ensemble.
But it is unique, she said, that "the leads of the show are five women -- and women doing a man's job, living in a man's world".
Both the leads of La La Land, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, were nominated, as were Natalie Portman and Denzel Washington for Jackie and Fences respectively.
Most big firms are now following the leads of their corporate clients, which run businesses with one eye on the current stock price while maximizing quarterly earnings.
There were some curious spiraled metal wires, perhaps the leads of his pacemaker, mixed with the white dust and pieces of bone.
This week, Time magazine features Storm Reid, Reese Witherspoon, Oprah Winfrey, and Mindy Kaling, the leads of DuVernay's new film, an adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time," on its cover.
To watch Ms. Ashley and Ms. Nichols alternate in the leads of "Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2" and "Divertimento No. 15" in that period was to see Balanchine allegro technique at a peak it has never reached again.
But the good news for Mr. Ferguson is that the strength of CBS's prime-time lineup has lifted Mr. Letterman's ratings, and conversely, the weakness of NBC's season has eroded the leads of both "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" and "Late Night".
Mr. Alessandrini states the point clearly in a pastiche of "Wunderbar" from "Kiss Me, Kate!" As the leads of that show's revival, Marin Mazzie and Brian Stokes Mitchell (Ms. Pedi and Tony Nation), sing plaintively to Cole Porter's melody, they are merely "would-be stars" whose names are hallowed "only in gay bars".
Everyone is ugly in this film, except the leads of course, and especially the sublime Hayworth, though her beauty (at Welles's insistence – he made her cut off her long red hair) appears a concoction, a made-up peroxide blonde with sculpted eyebrows.
