Well, it's a zany, muscular spectacle with a witty and sprightly lead performance and, frankly, there's no sign of it ending any time soon.
But it's perfectly possible to admire Hickson's witty inventiveness – and the magical spectacle of Jonathan Munby's excellent RSC production – and still feel there has been loss as well as gain.
Despite Mr. Cohen's witty reflections on violence as spectacle, the history of anti-Semitism, the immutability of prejudice, the rivalry of academia and the stagnancy of marriage, among other subjects, a meticulously researched lecture is pretty much what this remains.
This is not a show about spectacle and explosions; at its best, it's a witty, philosophically and emotionally rich chamber piece set in space.
Richard Moredock conducted a spectacle especially worth seeing The fine program opened with Jerome Robbins's "Fanfare," a witty visualization of its Benjamin Britten score, "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra," and closed with Balanchine's "Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3".
Throughout his series, which blends Judson's anti-artifice aesthetic with voguing's exotic otherness, Mr. Harrell has waged a witty war on Yvonne Rainer's "No Manifesto," which she wrote in 1965 as a way to reject notions of spectacle, virtuosity, transformations, magic and make-believe in dance.
