Though Terry Malloy is still at its center, the play uses Father Barry, the waterfront priest (Karl Malden's film role), as a kind of one-man chorus.

Mr. Hawking, the outside observer, is a one-man Greek chorus.

Over and over, like a one-man Greek chorus, Levinsky croaked, eyes spinning, spittle bubbling form his lips: 'He's gonna take you, kid.

The Wavemaker (Mr. McNulty) is an elusive narrator, a kind of one-man chorus.

The record is subtle and exacting, with Mr. Gartside's epicene vocals pushed up in the mix, sometimes multitracked into a one-man chorus.

Anubis is a one-man chorus: when the sphinx prepares to make love to Oedipus and thus risks losing her power, Mr. Thielen's frenzied solo sounds the alarm.

Ambassador Bernaux hurried up, and added his worried apologies to Yenaro's one-man chorus.

Events are presided over by the narrator Ozzie Jones, who alternately serves as the lethal agent of Rome's fate and as a one-man Greek chorus.

Like a one-man Greek chorus, the folk singer Loudon Wainwright III wanders around the place singing his funny-sad songs about the drinking life.

In "Pollard," this pivotal issue is addressed by a fictional character named Sam Goldstein, an American Jew who serves as a one-man Greek chorus.