Isabella Hinkley, the soprano playing Oscar, sang the anthem's first stanza half-turned toward Lincoln's second-tier stage box.
The only GOP candidate on the top-tier stage in South Carolina who did back the 9/11 bill was Marco Rubio.
Usually each tier, or stage, will have its own skirt or wall of sorts around it.
Three percussionists, at the top tier of the stage, reinforced Brazilian connections.
On the lowest tier of the stage Destiny's Child is standing in front of three Prairie View drummers, the girls have taken the sticks and are pounding out the beat with the flailing elbows and lunging stance of fashionable women trying to jack up a car.
And David Byrne was in the house, it turned out, seated in a first-tier box at stage right.
As Mr. Becker detailed the alterations (a reconfigured stage, tiered seating, a new entrance), the singer, in a flowing white blouse, emerged to squeals of adulation.
"The Whale" is a graduation for the playwright to a top-tier Off Broadway stage that in recent seasons has accelerated the emergence of Annie Baker ("Circle Mirror Transformation") and Amy Herzog ("After the Revolution"), both of whom also have new works at Playwrights Horizons this season.
The auditorium had four tiers, with a stage large enough for the greatest spectaculars.
There are lamplit tables near the stage and tiered tables further back.
That, along with its modern, two-tier design, a karaoke stage and a full bar, has made it enormously popular with groups of young Chinese-Americans, who take over the restaurant's lower level every weekend night.
