Word: choruses
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...businessmen of Broadway know one way to create a hit: hire a big Hollywood star and hope the name on the marquee will pull in the crowds. The romanticists of Broadway prefer another, more storied method: take a kid from the chorus, stick him or her into the lead role and watch as a new star is born. Sometimes this Broadway fable even comes true. Oddly, it did so twice last week...
Stetson explains that this tactic is meant to make the show “more accessible, easier to understand and relate to,” as well as to more clearly define the role of the chorus. “The chorus represents what’s in his mind, rather than just being like a Greek chorus,” she said...
Extensive efforts have also been taken to deal with the audience-addressing chorus that presents Sweeney’s story. In order to clarify the viewpoint, the story now emanates from the mind of one of the central characters, the oft stepped-upon Tobias...
...competing interests (such as, say, the desire to prevent distress caused by hearing racial slurs). It would therefore seem appropriate for law students to question whether the statements were offensive enough to warrant proscription and punishment. That, in turn, requires considering each of the statements individually. But the condemnatory chorus rode roughshod over distinctions between them...
...grandest shot of all came with Harvard ahead 5-0 in the sixth. Mann, who had doubled in his first at-bat, hit an absolute bomb to straightway left field. The moonshot hovered around the top of a lightstand when it cleared the fence and elicited a chorus of oohs and aahs from the Harvard dugout...