Word: joyful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cannot talk about Ronnie without mentioning his wonderful sense of humor. I think he could tell stories all day without repeating himself--a joy for people with him, but he also made use of it politically. If things got a little heated and tense, he would break the tension with a story. By the time he ended, the mood would have changed, and they got on with the business with no rancor...
...averse to making a commercial buck by fleshing out their shows for the wider Broadway audience. Perhaps once a season, talk surfaces of a possible transfer (for "Strike Up the Band," "Hair," "Carnival," none of which occurred). "Chicago" did make that move, in just six months in1996, to the joy and profit of all involved...
...backing girl group (the Cookies, later known as the Raelettes) offer response to his call, the bluesy-jazzy sax solos by David ?Fathead? Newman. This was irrepressible, good-timey music, as if the early Charles had been absolved of sin and guilt and was finally permitted to express unmitigated joy. In Charles? gravelly vocals, joy sounds like the residue of a lifetime of pain. It?s not what?s been gained; it?s what?s left...
...anything and everything they could to see the team succeed regardless if it was short of what they wanted to do—if they had to sit a shift because someone else needed to play or those sort of acts—it’s always a joy to play on a team like that, and this was truly one of those...
...brought a lot of joy to our house,” Quach remembered. “He had a lot of energy and enthusiasm...any time guests came over, he would be genuinely interested in who they were...