From, “Theater Talkback: Against Ovation Inflation,” by Ben
Brantley, 5/17/12, The New York
Times:
I would like to make the case, officially and urgently, for
the return of the sitting ovation. Because we really have reached the point
where a standing ovation doesn’t mean a thing. Pretty much every show you
attend on Broadway these days ends with people jumping to their feet and
beating their flippers together like captive sea lions whose zookeeper has
arrived with a bucket of fish. This is true even for doomed stinkers that find
the casts taking their curtain calls with the pale, hopeless mien of patients who have just received
a terminal diagnosis.
Mien: a person's look or
manner, indicating their character or mood
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