If a performer can dance, sing and act, she said, it saves Broadway producers money.

Then performers sing and dance, moving around it with clapping.

The deaf performers do not sing in the conventional sense.

The most confident performers sing several songs in an evening, and the regulars know one another's range.

Female performers once sang almost exclusively about love; even now, they still spend more time on the subject than their male peers.

For instance if the performers are singing about how they dislike rain one might get an umbrella.

But the idea was that an established performer would eventually buy a song or two and sing it themselves.

Each performer sang three songs alone, including one new song apiece.

Like the earlier cast, most of these performers sing far better than they act or dance, a weakness made more apparent in the larger theater.

The performers sing as they career around the stage.