Their performance had begun and she was expected to play her role well.

Because of the long scene changes each performance took four to six hours and began by afternoon.

Before the performance began I was able to give the two lovers almost an hour alone together.

Yet it was not until the work's final moments that the performance began to catch fire.

After being silent for 40 years, live performances began again in 2010.

There is, first of all, the setting to consider, which the audience does before the performance begins.

Performances begin late in the evening and go on all night long till the next morning.

The performance began at eight Five minutes to go.

Lewis said his big performance didn't begin to make up for the couple's loss, but helped snap him back into the here and now.

"I'm very proud of the way the arts community has come together on this," he said outside the theater before the performance began.