A pair of silent movie stars find their voice. Encores!
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Portraying the abjectly unattached Leona Samish in the insightful Encores!
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"There will be several encores — I guarantee it," he said.
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After the final encores, the theatre lights went up quickly.
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After their one shot at resuscitation in City Center's Encores!
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None of the old musicals sampled in the new Encores!
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As I watched "I Married an Angel," the wan Encores!
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This song had long been one of her favorite encores.
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He has also performed at City Center, in an Encores!
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This is part of the trouble, especially since every Encores!
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Jerry Herman's buoyant score is the highlight of this Encores!
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That seems to have been the happier case when Encores!
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Do not leave until you're sure there are no encores.
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City Center will name a new artistic director for the Encores!
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"From now on, I decided, after two encores I stop clapping."
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As such, "Grand Hotel" might seem an odd choice for Encores!
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In the concert presentation of "Assassins" that opened this summer's Encores!
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All three also fell back on the Strauss family for encores.
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Which is why "Waltz" is exactly the sort of production that Encores!
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Two recent productions that deal with uncomfortable racial truths return for encores.
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Which one of her commissioned encores would she pick to follow that?
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But this long program, with five encores, was her day, her return.
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The expansion that gave rise to the Off Broadway production that Encores!
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He made it pretty clear on Monday that he didn't much like encores.
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We used to have riots all the time because we wouldn't play encores.
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At the end, he looked exhausted and played no encores, which seemed right.
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The composer Michael Friedman ("Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson") programs City Center's flavorful Encores!
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His kind, unpretentious personality is perhaps what made his Bach encores so gripping.
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That at any rate is the impression left by the pulse-lowering Encores!
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City Center, the longtime host of beloved series like Fall for Dance and Encores!
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ANI TAJ studied with Ms. Swados at N.Y.U. and is the choreographer of Encores!
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" As encores, she sang Dvorak's "Songs My Mother Taught Me" and Strauss's breathless "Cäcilie.
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At the Encores performance, I caught some jokes that had whizzed past me before.
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Workers of the city, unite and consider spending your leisure time at this Encores!
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When I first heard Yuja play these encores, I went mad with delight, too.
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After greeting me, she began lighting into Tommasini for his comment about her encores.
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" Downie ended the concert after three encores with a simple, heartfelt "thank you for that.
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Maybe when he encores with a cover of Tamia's "So Into You," it's all contrived.
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Not all of the works on the program were rendered as expressively as the encores.
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And the pyrotechnic Toccata from his First Piano Sonata belongs in the rotation of encores.
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As Eva, Pfeiffer — an Eliza in "Hamilton" who also made a splash in the Encores!
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" The roars that went up after the encores were greater than those after the "Hammerklavier.
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"He gave an incredible performance with at least four encores," audience member Celeste Headlee told PEOPLE.
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" James Earl Jones cuddled him this summer in "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" in an "Encores!
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On the tours we have done waltzes before, as encores, and now comes a complete concert.
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And because of that, I'd had the benefit of hearing the tip: Stay for the encores.
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The first act of Lynn Root's book, adapted by the director, Ruben Santiago-Hudson and the Encores!
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He returned several times to the stage as the standing ovation lingered, but understandably played no encores.
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Bands don't usually get encores at music festivals but Eddy Current Suppression Ring aren't just any band.
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This blast of undiluted teen spirit, which opened Wednesday night as the first offering in the Encores!
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Still, ever since its minimalist interpretation of "Chicago" slid from City Center to Broadway in 1996, Encores!
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The same month that she retired from Ballet Theater, she triumphed as Vera Baronova in the Encores!
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Most recently, "The Most Happy Fella" ran briefly at City Center, as part of the 2014 Encores!
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Ms. deBessonet will succeed Jack Viertel, who is stepping down next year after 20 years at the Encores!
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Jason Robert Brown's "Songs for a New World" is one of these, currently flourishing in a glorious Encores!
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Ms. Wang is one of many performers who like to flesh out their musical personalities with copious encores.
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When the show was last revived on Broadway in 2009, in a version that originated as an Encores!
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In recent years the Met has relaxed a longstanding policy against encores, and Mr. Camarena has earned several.
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On Saturday afternoon, catch encores for new works by the company members Justin Peck, Lauren Lovette and Peter Walker.
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In May 2015, Ms. Mazzie was in an "Encores!" presentation of the musical "Zorba!" at New York City Center.
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Mr. Wheeldon's dances certainly fit that bill, and so does Loewe's triple-crème music, sensitively rendered by the Encores!
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But watching Alexandra Socha effervesce her way through the madcap "Look What Happened to Mabel" number in the Encores!
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Mr. Kaufmann sang four Schubert songs as encores and the audience would have been happy to stay for more.
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This is a piece that I can play in my dreams, and it's very often one of my encores.
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Michael Friedman, the composer and lyricist behind "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," will be the next artistic director of Encores!
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He knows that audience members may bring their own histories with Friedman to it, as many did when Encores!
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Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin's pathbreaking 1941 musical "Lady in the Dark," which was presented in the inaugural Encores!
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Ms. Mazzie's return to Broadway will come 12 months after her belly started swelling uncomfortably during rehearsals for the Encores!
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So it's a cute bit of historical rhyming that Joshua Bergasse, the director and choreographer of the City Center Encores!
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The mood was triumphal: The concert started after a spontaneous audience rendition of "O Canada" and ended with three encores.
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Mr. Gerstein played no encores, which seemed right after presenting a program of such structural and thematic coherence and integrity.
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There is no public record of Elton John ever saying that, and, in fact, Elton John does believe in encores.
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Two encores, Tchaikovsky's Nocturne in C sharp minor and Liszt's "La Campanella" étude, were gratefully received by the enthusiastic audience.
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Now Ms. deBessonet will have a chance to share that passion with the public, as the new artistic director of Encores!
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And yes, that was Twan as Marie (he's clearly versatile), the love child of George and Dot in the recent Encores!
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Encores, as many as a dozen of them, ought to provide some variety from one of the Carnegie audience's favorite pianists.
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Javier Camarena, he of the encores, is Arturo, opposite Diana Damrau's Elvira; Alexey Markov and Luca Pisaroni are Riccardo and Giorgio.
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This blithe and boozy production is a product of painstaking theater archaeology, by a team led by Jack Viertel, the Encores!
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Directed by Trip Cullman, Tarell Alvin McCraney's play about prep-school boys warbling their way toward maturity performs its final encores.
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Jeanine Tesori, the Tony-winning composer of "Fun Home," has decided that this summer is to be her last overseeing the Encores!
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Off-Center, a sister program focusing on revivals of Off Broadway shows; and next year she is scheduled to direct an Encores!
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She couples her mastery with a sense of adventure, and uses her encores to explore lighter pieces such as Mozart's "Turkish March".
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Or are such climatological encores to be expected when we've just lived through one of the most powerful El Niño on record?
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Billy Joel doing is encores at MSG on 8/21 wearing one Jewish Star on his breast and another on his back.
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Ms. Hilty, 35, still carries a lingering aura of Lorelei Lee, singing "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend," in a 2012 Encores!
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Mr. Gyllenhaal, although best known as a film star, wowed musical theater fans last summer with his star turn in an Encores!
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And, as usual, Ms. Wang did not announce her encores, which included a crackling account of Prokofiev's driving Toccata in D minor.
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For encores, he played charming, buoyant and playful works by three of Bach's sons: Johann Christian, Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel.
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And "Cabin in the Sky" and "The Golden Apple" were staged during the past two seasons of New York City Center's Encores!
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Likewise, it seemed at first that a few of her seven — yes, seven — encores jarred with the forlorn mood she'd built up.
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A musical I really enjoyed this season was Kirsten Childs's "The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin," part of the Encores!
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This 21300 Jerome Moross and John Latouche show, an all-American version of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," is revived by Encores!
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Love is for sale (tickets are, too), thanks to an Encores revival of this lost 1930 Cole Porter and Herbert Fields musical.
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And Travel Channel announced Monday that it's airing encores of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations every Tuesday night through July 3 at 10 p.m.
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It pushed the limits of a concert staging as far as they could go before becoming a full production, more like an Encores!
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The cheering audience demanded encores and the performers complied until things finally broke up — at this festival of incredible freedom — close to midnight.
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Lesser shows may produce a song or two that can kill in the cabaret — or are even worth a full staging at Encores!
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When the cast comes back for encores, Ms. Storrs belts out the kind of vocal runs that are Broadway's answer to jammy solos.
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Audiences would aggressively demand encores of the entire performance if they had enjoyed it (Toscanini, however, did not like pandering to such extravagant requests).
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Then she ruined it, for me at least, by playing five encores, suggesting just how much she may have held back in the Beethoven.
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"Holiday Encores," works by Debussy, Ravel and Gigout performed by the organist Gordon Turk, the pianist Hugh Sung and the tenor Ronald Naldi. Sept.
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And so, at the end of an evening of brilliant and often uncannily delicate music-making, Ms. Mutter played two Previn works as encores.
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Tellingly, the most famous section, "Funérailles," is also the closest "Harmonies" gets to the pyrotechnic showiness that has made Liszt a favorite for encores.
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AT 63 MINUTE 26 SECONDS The Chinese piano virtuoso Yuja Wang loves to play encores for her typically excited audiences, even after concerto performances.
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Imbibe freely, all you kombucha-swilling health nuts of the 21st century, of the cocktail being served at City Center, where the delirious Encores!
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That's how many average viewers the show brought in this season in weekly over telecasts, encores, DVR, and streams on HBO Go and HBO Now.
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Melissa Errico, who dazzled New York in the otherworldly title role of the Kurt Weill-Ogden Nash musical "One Touch of Venus" in an Encores!
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Mr. Pletnev and the orchestra also offered encores: the Waltz from Khachaturian's "Masquerade" Suite and the Dance of the Skomorokhi from Tchaikovsky's "The Snow Maiden."
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Following their premieres at City Ballet's fall gala, three new works by Matthew Neenan, Kyle Abraham and Gianna Reisen receive encores on Friday and Oct.
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She will alternate with Ms. Mearns, who with this production will make her debut as a guest artist with Mr. Bourne's troupe, New Adventures. Encores!
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People in the audience must have loved what they saw; they cheered on the operetta's star, Richard Tauber, through several encores of his big aria.
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Ms. Wang played magnificently (though I could have done without the five solo encores she played, including unabashedly virtuosic showpieces like "Flight of the Bumblebee").
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Mr. Hamelin offered three encores amid tumultuous ovations: a Chopin Polish song, arranged by Liszt; Gershwin's "Liza," arranged by Earl Wild; and Debussy's prelude "Feux d'Artifice."
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Of all the lovely moments in a recital by the soprano Ying Fang on Monday evening at Alice Tully Hall, her two encores were particularly memorable.
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He has also been a prolific director beyond Broadway; his projects have included last week's semi-staged revival of "Do I Hear a Waltz?" at Encores!
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The concert performance is being produced by Jeanine Tesori, the Tony-winning composer of "Fun Home," who is leaving her position as artistic director of Encores!
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When she did turn to encores, in 2013, it was a collection of 27 new pieces written by some of the leading composers of the day.
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I remember when the main set was done, and after a couple of encores, when the lights went up, fans telling other fans: Don't leave yet.
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Do stick around for the encores, which these players use to shoot off in unexpected directions with improvised takes on folk music, jazz or the Beatles.
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Encores Since Riccardo Tisci became the artistic director for the Givenchy men's lines in 2009, he has worked all kinds of unlikely imagery into his designs.
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But despite critical favor and a run of more than 250 performances, "Love Life," which is to run March 18-22 in a City Center Encores!
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The performing arts center announced Thursday, two days after Ms. Swados's death, that it would stage a revival of "Runaways" this summer as part of its Encores!
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Getting dancers to master the body language of the past is one of the challenges that Ms. Brown faces as the choreographer of a City Center Encores!
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Jackie Evancho had plenty of butterflies right before she sang the national anthem at Donald Trump's inauguration, but walked away so pumped ... she's ready for several encores.
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In a lighthearted, gentlemanly touch, he encouraged his hard-working page turner, Olivia Porada, to take a bow after the three singers had finished their zarzuela encores.
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Offering no fewer than three encores — heartfelt, elegant Sibelius pieces — the musicians seemed reluctant to leave the stage, perhaps because they didn't know when they would return.
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The first act, on a set defined mostly by props and projections, moves as fast as can be — a generally good idea not always realized at Encores!
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The bride and groom are collaborating on a revival of Rodgers & Hart's "I Married an Angel," which is to be presented in March 2019 at the Encores!
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So it was a treat to hear him bring his burnished voice and penetrating musicianship to a generous helping of Mozart arias: nine in all (including two encores).
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Inside the gig the DJ plays a Manchester greatest hits set before stage time and the crowd are already at a level of excitement usually reserved for encores.
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If you were at Hop farm in 2011 he turned a grazing field into a midnight disco, 3 encores after everyone thought he was done for the night.
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I saw four, and every night was a completely unique experience with different songs, guests, costume changes — and even more importantly, encores than ran later into the night.
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Since the company's City Center revival of "Chicago" (also two decades ago) transferred to Broadway, where it continues to run and run, expectations have been loaded onto Encores!
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There are reserves of power in Mr Hough's touch, and an ingrained refinement; his self-composed encores usually dissipate with sly comedy the high seriousness of his art.
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"The guy was an encyclopedia," said Anne Kauffman, who met Mr. Friedman in 1999 at the Williamstown Theater Festival, and who he chose to direct his first Encores!
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Though the simple setting by Allen Moyer comes complete with a just-right backdrop in the style of Grandma Moses, the overall tone is, as in many Encores!
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Her encores are almost as celebrated as her repertoires, encouraging Deutsche Grammophon to release an album this month of extra performances from her recent North American and European tour.
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In between, spread over two shows and mixed in with other Balanchine classics, Peck's latest piece and new dances by Pam Tanowitz and Gianna Reisen enjoy a few encores.
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For this latest incarnation of "Sunset Boulevard," directed by Lonny Price and first seen in London last year, is a close cousin to the much-loved productions from Encores!
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Hatsune Miku: VR Future Live lets players attend a virtual Miku concert from the comfort of their living rooms, complete with pumping glow sticks, on-stage theatrics, and intimate encores.
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Released individually, the 231.29 discs are now gathered in a set with bonuses, including a previously unreleased disc of encores from those concerts and a new essay by Mr. Schiff.
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And both performers and orchestra, under the music director and conductor, Chris Fenwick, deliver the eclectic score with the polish and zest we have come to expect from the Encores!
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Despite references to current politics (there's a nice surprise after the curtain call, so stick around), the lack of thematic unity turns out to be more damaging than the Encores!
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In 1997 he gave the first solo piano recital at the BBC Proms, breaking its record for the size of the audience (over 6,000) and the number of encores played (seven).
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After a charmingly understated Chopin "Waltz", the coup de grace among the encores was a notorious Prokofiev finger-twister, "Etude in C minor, Opus 2 No. 3", which went like the wind.
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Still, it is like seeing a classic rock band perform uninspired encores of their biggest hits, with only fleeting reminders of the magic that made you like their music to begin with.
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The show ends with a fantasy concert of encores, which is fitting: The historical Million Dollar Quartet has inspired many a fan's fantasy, and fantasy is something that theater lives to fulfill.
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This 22 Irving Berlin musical imagines a gentler world in which the worst the State Department has to contend with are finicky matters of protocol and a few inconvenient love affairs. Encores!
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"The day of the opening, we walked up five stairs, and got to the top, and Michael was completely winded," said Sam Pinkleton, a choreographer and the associate artistic director of Encores!
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Premieres on CNN on September 227 at 9:00 pm and September 5 at 12:30 am, with encores on September 9 at 203 pm and September 10 at 2:30 am.
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He has also recently been experimenting with musicals — last summer he starred in a concert production of "Little Shop of Horrors" which had three performances at City Center as part of the Encores!
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The songs here traced back 37 years — "Boys Don't Cry" the oldest, "Pornography" the most transfixing, and the fourth set of encores, including "The Perfect Girl" and "Close to Me" the most joyous.
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Based on interviews with real child runaways that were transformed into songs, speeches and poems, the piece is now being revived by the Encores Off-Center series, under the direction of Sam Pinkleton.
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My heart sank a little further when I entered the theater to see a gleaming gold proscenium looming above the stage — to knowing eyes, the signature scenic device of the City Center Encores!
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Orchestra players could be lazy, favored singers would decorate their arias with additional high notes and take encores, and audiences responded with ovations and catcalls, and shouted at the singers or at the conductor.
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Though he sang some beloved arias by Donizetti and Gounod splendidly, this Peruvian artist may have been the most revealing during his first three (of seven!) encores: songs in Spanish, accompanying himself on guitar.
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" The dialectic continued even into the encores, with the tenacious closeness and harsh recriminations of "One" followed by the anthemic solace and wordless arena chant of "Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way.
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Though this recital was a workout, Mr. Trifonov had enough stamina for encores: two of Prokofiev's raw, pummeling "Sarcasms," and a beautiful account of an arrangement of the slow movement from Chopin's Cello Sonata.
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The Devil and the Lord fight a war by proxy for the soul of a sweet but feckless fellow in "Cabin in the Sky," an all-black musical from 1940 that kicks off the Encores!
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In 2014, while filling in for Mr. Flórez in Rossini's "La Cenerentola," he got such a thunderous ovation for performances of the bravura aria "Si, ritrovarla io guiro," that he was compelled to sing encores.
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And the job, they said, is like no other — a life both exhilarating and grueling, with crowds screaming for encores and then, hours later, boredom and isolation as the bus rolls to the next town.
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The soloist, James Ehnes, showed ample technique with a full complement of cadenzas but not a lot of warmth or personality, though he partially made up for the deficiency with two encores of unaccompanied Bach.
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But sure enough in the concert on Friday, which opened an Americas Tour with the Philharmonic, there was a Bernstein trifle to start off a rich slate of encores: the Waltz from his Divertimento for Orchestra.
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In 1990, after Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, had thawed the Cold War, she was among the first expatriate musicians to return to her home country, performing for a Moscow audience that demanded three encores.
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She appeared in the Paper Mill Playhouse production of "Pippin" in 21979, in "The Vagina Monologues" Off Broadway in 21980, and in a concert version of the 21990 musical "70, Girls, 70" at City Center Encores!
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" In another sharp turn, the program included motley built-in encores ("three little folk-song-like things," Mr. Finley called them): Copland's "Ching-a-Ring Chaw," Respighi's "My Heart's in the Highlands" and Britten's "The Crocodile.
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The Peruvian tenor, he of the encores at the Met a decade ago, gives a recital that predictably features his usual Donizetti and Rossini, but also takes in slightly heavier repertoire, including Verdi, Massenet, Gounod and Puccini.
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The weekend brings encores of recent premieres, including Justin Peck's "The Most Incredible Thing" (Saturday matinee) and "Belles-Lettres," which joins "American Rhapsody" by Christopher Wheeldon and "Mothership," Nicholas Blanc's choreographic debut for the company, on Saturday evening.
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The only aspect of the Truckers' performance in Kentucky that appeared controversial was its relative brevity, as mandated by the Moontower Music Festival: barely an hour, or roughly the length of one of the Truckers' more fiery encores.
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And Cohen was in full flight, kneeling reverentially before his instrumental soloists, bounding away from and back to the stage as the multiple encores carried on, and, of course, he was possibly the funniest frontman of all time.
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But in the disciplined hands of Mr. Eden, the house specialties are less like reruns and more like fresh and flavorful encores, enhanced by local, organic ingredients, fired with Asian and Latin spices and crafted with French technique.
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The most striking conflict between personal and historical narratives in the show is found downstairs in the Yu's portraits of artist Xiao Lu. Most works in the portrait chapter are encores with an interval of more than a decade.
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You never know entirely what to expect from the impish Mr. Schiff, whose stamina is no less amazing than his capacious memory, and he often displays both at the end of a concert with a generous helping of encores.
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The show, with an infectious score by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, and a rather complicated book by Jerome Weidman and the musical's original director, George Abbott, has been featured not once but twice as part of the City Center Encores!
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Wearing them is like attending a private concert—even if you're actually in a crowded airplane with a baby screaming a few rows back—and there's plenty of time for multiple encores with 30 hours of battery on a charge.
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She pressed the pause button on these notes in Rachmaninoff's "How fair this spot" and in both of her encores, Arditi's "Il Bacio" and Puccini's "O mio babbino caro" — in that last one, long enough to draw giggles from listeners.
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In Milan he had worked with (and disciplined) the young Caruso and Chaliapin, had forced audiences to accept darkened auditoriums, instituted a bitterly opposed policy of no encores, and had the orchestra playing in a pit rather than at stage level.
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I thought that in playing two solo encores, including Vladimir Horowitz's shamelessly showy fantasy on "Carmen," which has become a Wang specialty, she took some attention away from the orchestra on its big night, though beaming players onstage joined the ovations.
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One thing that will stay the same (as it did when the York Theater performed its own concert staging in 2016) is the barrage of torn-from-the-headlines historical references, which range from Operation Breadbasket to Godfrey Cambridge. Encores!
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And on this night, perhaps nobody in the world had gone as barnacles as the couple hundred phone-toting kids in an otherwise unassuming warehouse on the coast of South Carolina, all of them coated with sweat after couple of begged-for encores.
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A promising roster of Off Broadway productions this month are available to take you as near as Harlem (as envisioned in Stephen Adly Guirgis's "Our Lady of 121st Street") and as far away as the Lambeth district of London (for the Encores!
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But in the split between the concert proper and the encores we may read the split in Yuja herself—her persona as a confident musical genius and as an uncertain young woman making her way through the maze of a treacherous marketplace.
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Three encores later, Prince and his crew were joined by another wave, this one comprising mostly jazz musicians: pianists Sit Charles Thompson (June 133), Claude Williamson (July 16) and Don Friedman (June 30), flutist Jeremy Steig (April 13), baritone saxophonist Joe Temperley (May 11).
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But the real delight came in the encores: "Classical Rag," a two-lute takeoff on Scott Joplin by a Welsh composer, Ian Davies, and "My Lord Chamberlain His Gaillard," a Dowland piece for one lute, four hands, complete with hand crossings on the fingerboard.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - As far as U.S. Open encores go they don't come much tougher than the act Roberta Vinci has to follow after pulling off one of the biggest upsets ever at a grand slam during her magical run to last year's final.
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The premium cable channel said that the total audience for "Game of Thrones" this season — when factoring in original telecasts, encores, on-demand and streaming data — is averaging 23.3 million viewers per week, a 15 percent bump versus last year, according to USA Today.
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No orchestra travels better equipped with encores than Vienna, and to the audience's predictable delight, Mr. Gergiev trotted out three chestnuts by Johann Strauss: the sublime "Kaiser Waltzes" and the ridiculous "Pleasure Train" Polka on Friday, and the "Thunder and Lightning" Polka on Sunday.
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Perhaps wanting to make up for lost time in New York, Mr. Nagano and his players rewarded the cheering audience with two substantial encores: a sensual account of Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun," and a vigorously played Farandole from Bizet's "L'Arlesienne."
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In the centerpiece, an entertaining concert at Verizon Hall on Saturday evening, the NYO219 musicians, wearing baseball jerseys, played side by side with Philadelphia counterparts, dressed informally in black, in a grand performance of Respighi's "The Pines of Rome" and in encores by Gershwin and Copland.
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Performing "Nude" from In Rainbows during their first of two encores, Jonny Greenwood mistakenly played a harmonica instead of the ondes martenot (LOL what an amateur!!!), which Thom Yorke responded to with the most incredible full body side eye I have ever seen in my life.
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As a drunken and possibly lunatic millionaire, Santino Fontana gives a performance of ineffable sweetness in "Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater," an odd duck of a musical by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken that's being presented as the final entry in City Center Encores!
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For one of her encores, Ms. Antonacci sang the "Habanera" from "Carmen," but this foray into the extremely familiar was as eye-opening as the rest of the program: Her voice rarely rose above a mezzo-piano, which lent a beguiling mystery to a performance that verged on cabaret.
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My conclusion, based on the 1970 Barbra Streisand movie, the 2000 Encores concert starring Kristin Chenoweth, the complete rewriting of the show as a Harry Connick, Jr. vehicle in 2011 and the cute revisal that opened at the Irish Repertory Theater on Thursday, is: It can't be fixed.
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Alexei Ratmansky's new work, "Voices," set to the experimental music of the Austrian composer Peter Ablinger, receives a few more encores in the coming week in a program (on Friday, Saturday afternoon and Wednesday) that pairs it with Jerome Robbins's "Opus 19/The Dreamer" (1979), Christopher Wheeldon's "Polyphonia" (2001) and Justin Peck's "Bright," which debuted last year.
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With their unhinged music—the pair was known for eccentricities like ending shows with silent encores, second-long micro-songs, and Jang's penchant for performing in a helmet that he says proclaims "kill all communists"—the Pirates became the inadvertent voice of various protest movements solely by being some of the ones to sing—or scream—about what was wrong.
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Saturday's show had four sets of encores, and after the first three, Mr. Smith put his hand up on his clavicle, seemingly not so much as a stagy gesture of being overwhelmed, but as you might do reflexively to collect your thoughts when you've got a lot on your plate; he looked away from the audience and briskly walked off.
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The show, which in 1960 won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony Award for best new musical, features music and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, the same team behind "Fiddler on the Roof" and "She Loves Me." It had only one production on Broadway, from 1959 to 1961, with occasional productions elsewhere, including in 2013 for a limited run at City Center's Encores!
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