Periodically referring to the onstage musicians, they seemed also to embody the music.
Ms. Brown began to speak out, onstage and in interviews, about the exploitative contracts musicians of her generation had signed.
The ballet is structurally simple: two young people let the magic of onstage musicians inspire them to dance.
In Tuesday's opening set he changed format several times within an hour or so, beginning with six musicians onstage and ending with one.
The dancers and the onstage musicians work hard, but by the end they, and we, are still mostly in the dark.
The challenge and skill of any bar band is to work off the enthusiasm of the other musicians onstage and, most importantly, the audience.
There will be no onstage musicians, as there were in Mr. Robbins's original production.
Moreover, in the 1960s, PA systems typically did not use monitor speaker systems to amplify the music for the onstage musicians.
The onstage musicians, playing everything from memory and drawn into the action by Mr. Bondy, were a special delight.
The performers' songs are supported by an onstage musician or band that improvises the music, generally in the style of typical show tunes.