The only drawback, a significant one, was the vocally shaky performance of the Australian tenor Glenn Winslade in the demanding title role.
If, on top of the shaky performance, Canada fails to get by the Americans on Sunday, it will be a blow not only to the team's medal hopes but also to the psychic well-being of the nation.
Bieber's fans first noticed his vocal troubles in November, during the singer's shaky performance of Pray at the American Music awards.
Or perhaps it came from the shaky performance the Jets put forth over the past month.
Heejun Han, the 22-year-old from Queens with a deadpan sense of humor, survived even though he had done a shaky performance of Richard Marx's "Right Here Waiting," and DeAndre Brackensick, a dreamy looking 17-year-old from San Jose, Calif., made it through despite his mediocre version of "Endless Love".
By speaking so apologetically and self-critically and by promising to redefine the bureau's mission to prevent further terrorist acts, the agency's director sought to quell the rising fury of criticism in Congress and elsewhere over the bureau's shaky performance in advance of the Sept. 11 attacks.
But the Saints' shaky performance against the Vikings might have illustrated best why both top seeds rarely advance.
"I think that seasons kind of go up and down — there are some really good moments, and then there are some moments where it came down a little bit," he said, and referred to the Rangers' shaky performance in March.
Over all, though, the Mets' shaky performances, a plethora of injuries and a drunken-driving incident involving a team staffer have combined to make this training camp a somewhat wearisome one.
This toughness was in surviving a shaky performance and the din of 19,763 Knicks fans chanting in their ears.
