The meeting was called to order by Anthony Dapolito, a baker, who takes time to serve as chairman of Local Planning Board, No. 2, under whose auspices the gathering was held.
Organizers said nearly 30,000 people attended the rally on Monday, close to their expectations and the limit allowed under the permit for the gathering.
Organizers took pains to convene the gathering under the radar of the news media, "so people could open up and get real without worrying how it would play," a caucus staff member said.
But as if to enact a slow burn in direct contrast to the emotional seizures that grip our doomed heroine, Nicholas Hytner's exacting production eventually gets under the skin through the gathering tenaciousness of the psychic rot on view.
The gathering under one roof of California artisanal foods from Santa Barbara County and beyond has been the passion project of owner Marge Cafarelli, as part of the mixed-use development Alma del Pueblo.
And Ms. Brown accents this shaded, nuanced dance landscape with startling moments of contact with the fabric, like small collisions, when performers poke through or duck under the billowing, gathering white swathes.
The gathering was held under a tent made of highly inflammable synthetic material, which caught fire.
Instead of taking to the streets last fall to protest the gathering economic crisis under President Bush, many workers and unions campaigned for Mr. Obama.
"Having so much fun," Ms. Headland, 29, posted on Twitter from the gathering later that evening, under her nom de tweet, Molotovcocktail.
In the school hall where the rally was being held, the gathering crowd waited patiently under the heat of the spotlights.
