lightsome

During the second act, I worried — though worry is too strong a word — that maybe this production had become too funny, too lightsome.

This, along with Joe's lightsome delivery and comportment, makes enough of an impression to cement his presence in scenes even when Emmett is only present in spirit and memory.

As Allen put it, Douglass “touches chords . . . which vibrate music now sweet, now sad, now lightsome, now solemn, now startling, now grand, now majestic, now sublime.”

Re-imagining Benny Goodman,” Mr. Etkin, a Israeli clarinetist with a lightsome disposition, pays a contemporary homage to the artist known in his day as the King of Swing.

Of course, it helps that the play is 50 minutes, but the cast is so agreeable and the script is so lightsome that those minutes fly by.