All the way through her opening-night show, she punctuated the music with epigrams and romantic tales.

The revue's low-keyed opening-night show suggested that the grand setting and the folksy performers were not ideally matched.

And at Tuesday's opening-night show, she also took several songs in and out of speechsong.

It was opened in 1682 and its opening-night shows lasted throughout the carnival period.

The company built the team's offices, will mastermind the opening-night show and will design between-period amusements.

At Tuesday's opening-night show Ms. Smith and her seven-member band performed variations of the same set she has been doing for the last decade.

"Everything you see here is mine," he remarked, touching his face at his opening-night show.

Throughout Tuesday's opening-night show, she not only sang but aggressively conducted the group.

Since he has never been a very warm performer, his relatively relaxed, unpretentious opening-night show came as a pleasant surprise.

Though modest compared with the extravanganzas of three decades ago, Ms. Sumac's opening-night show was still highly theatrical.