Something witty happens between the first two scenes of the new staging of "The Hard Problem," Tom Stoppard's 2015 play, directed by Jack O'Brien, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse.
If you're feeling witty, and there happens to be a stethoscope laying around, because you always carry around a stethoscope with you, hold it up mimicking a doctor and say "Evidently a case of bacteria!".
Witty, sharp and alert to everything happening in society and the arts, Amies in his prime was a marvellous companion - provided you could stomach his snobbishness.
Not much that's noble or witty or soul-stirring happens in these lovingly re-created cities.
She must know what this handsome, witty slouch, who also happens to be a painter, means by panache, and he tells her.
And while Jamie Hewlett's visuals, from witty montages to fantasy-band narratives, are still an important element, the real magic is happening on-stage.
The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a "brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis", as if the truth "never happened even while it was happening".
One more piece not listed in the program deserves mention: Neil Rolnick's brief, witty "Phones Off" preceded the concert with a babble of cellphone tones, intended to prevent the same from happening during the performance.
If festooning the major shopping area of Fifth Avenue with chandeliers suspended from wires is witty but not likely to happen, the idea of complementing the Arch at Washington Square Park, where Fifth Avenue begins, with a similar arch dedicated to Marcus Garvey, at 110th Street at Fifth Avenue, is another of Ms. Adams's palpable spurs to thought.
Whatever happened to the witty, sparkling show that surprised and charmed so many of us when it first debuted?
The post commentary allows you to reflect back on what happened and make witty comments about it.
