In the first-act finale, the cast members - dressed variously as teapot, candlestick, genie and mermaid - point out that most of the smash musicals nowadays are animated features from Hollywood.

Channa also heard the tramp ofboots in the hall and swiveled in her chair as a half-dozen variously dressed figures swung into the meeting room.

The men who boarded Kumudini had rifles and all of them were dressed variously in blue pants or shorts and T-shirts as worn by the Sri Lankan navy personnel.

Yesterday, an older man read the Koran, and a group of men dressed variously in suits or T-shirts chatted idly, waiting for customers.

Many models, dressed variously as a penguin, zebra, ostrich, poodle, toucan and octopus, pranced down the runway.

The performance was as flamboyant as the music suggested, with the band dressed variously in grey spandex (Glam) and wearing a military hat (Teeny) among other things.

The other cast members are dressed variously as a police inspector, a doctor, a peon, etc.

Each band was led by a man who was variously dressed in animal horns, elaborate rags, female disguise, whiteface (and wearing a gentleman's wig!)

Its walls are almost entirely covered by a series of 368 paintings, mostly of variously dressed women, differing in appearance and even age, yet most were drawn from a single model.

They were variously dressed and variously armed, but they looked like men of experience.