The music varied, from singer-songwriters to DJs and punk jazz mini-orchestras.
In Persian art music, instrumentalists are expected to vary the singers' improvised lines.
The casts here vary: the singers are eager and enthusiastic, and sometimes promising, and Anthony Amato, the company's founder, conducts the performances with an evident love of the music.
The diction of the singers varied markedly.
Mr. Davies's idiosyncratic songcraft has influenced artists as varied as the singer-songwriter Jonathan Richman, the grunge band Mudhoney and the pop purists Fountains of Wayne.
While Lypsinka's voices are as varied as the singers to whom she lip synchs (I couldn't begin to identify who they all are), they all come to seem like natural subsets of the same persona.
Mr. Charles influenced singers as varied as Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Van Morrison and Billy Joel.
His freewheeling incandescence as both an instrumentalist and vocalist would influence not just every trumpet player to come but also countless composers, bandleaders and singers as varied as Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
Five nights a week, 46 weeks a year, he took the stage and treated audiences to a carefully calibrated mixture of song and comedy, delivering, like a human iPod, as many as 60 vocal impersonations of singers as varied as Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart and Anita Baker.
The American musical theatre industry is a multibillion dollar business in which the requirements for singers are varied and complex.
