Netscape and Microsoft regularly send members of their web-developer programs discs filled with "tryout" versions of tools sold by independent firms with which they partner.
It's a tryout for a new version of contingent capital.
Or think of the Petraeus version of collapse as a tryout for the fall of the American empire, writ very small, with Jill Kelley and Paula Broadwell as our Gibbons and the volume of email, including military sexting, taking the place of his six volumes.
The syndicated version's potential contestants, depending on touring tryouts or tryouts held at ABC's New York studio center, are required to pass an electronically scored test comprising a set of thirty general knowledge quiz questions which must be answered within a time limit of ten minutes.
He rattled off a list of credits that included playing Mozart in "Amadeus," Hamlet in "Hamlet," and Guy Bennett in an Oxford production of "Another Country"; three seasons at the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain; and, when he was eight, a tryout for the lead role in the movie version of "The Little Prince".
One song from "Pipe Dream," called "The Next Time It Happens," has been added, as well as "My Best Love," which was cut from the original version of "Flower Drum Song" in its Boston tryout.
He sneaks into performances of the musical "Beauty and the Beast" in Los Angeles at least a dozen times, and when the stage version of "The Lion King" has its first tryout, in Minneapolis, he flies there from Los Angeles half a dozen times during the course of one summer to give his "notes".
Above is a selection of Powell's photographs from the tryouts, and here's what Gus calls "a motion-capture version".
After successful tryouts on the road, in Roslyn and Irvington, N.Y., Michael Psilakis is bringing his version of a Greek brasserie to New York City.
When the stage version of the 1967 movie musical went into rehearsals for its pre-Broadway tryout at the La Jolla Playhouse in California a year and a half ago, Ms. Foster was in the ensemble.
