Much like its predecessor Cheers, Frasier used an ensemble cast with storylines involving the central group of characters.

Kozintzev described his vision of the film as an ensemble piece: with Lear, played by a dynamic Jüri Järvet, as first among equals in a cast of fully developed characters.

Other Altman trademarks prevalent in the film are the large ensemble cast and the overlapping dialogue with several characters speaking at once.

Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias.

M * A * S * H maintained a relatively constant ensemble cast, with four characters — Hawkeye, Father Mulcahy, Margaret Houlihan, and Maxwell Q. Klinger — on the show for all eleven seasons.

Writer Steven Moffat's inventive grasp of comic structure is immense, and these characters make a great ensemble.

His most recent role, as part of the ensemble cast of AMC's Hell on Wheels, is portraying one of the lead characters, Elam Ferguson, a recently-freed slave trying to find his place in the world.

The ensemble drama stars Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez, Mathew St. Patrick and Rachel Griffiths as the show's seven central characters.

An ensemble that includes prostitutes, student revolutionaries, factory workers, and others joins the lead characters.

It is at this point in the show that the steady stream of supporting characters, written into the series to complement the leading ensemble, gained in importance.

After the novelty of newly added ensemble characters wore off, the series returned to its original format.

By the middle of the 12th century, the corpus of works was being expanded principally by " cyclisation ", that is to say by the formation of " cycles " of chansons attached to a character or group of characters — with new chansons being added to the ensemble by singing of the earlier or later adventures of the hero, of their youthful exploits (" enfances "), the great deeds of their ancestors or descendants, or their retreat from the world to a convent (" moniage ") -- or attached to an event ( like the Crusades ).

Initially one of the top-billed characters and featured prominently in episodes such as " The Naked Now " and " Code of Honor ", the role of Tasha gradually moved into the background as other members of the ensemble cast became a greater focus of the series.

Felicity maintained an ensemble cast, keeping most of its characters for its entire four season run.

The ensemble cast of characters form two subplots with Jeff Spicoli ( Sean Penn ), an irresponsible stoned surfer, facing off against uptight history teacher Mr. Hand ( Ray Walston ), and Stacy's brother, Brad ( Judge Reinhold ), a senior who works at a series of entry-level jobs in order to pay off his car, and who is pondering easing out of his relationship with his girlfriend.

As with the rest of Chekhov's full-length plays, The Seagull relies upon an ensemble cast of diverse, fully developed characters.

Critically praised ( although frequently struggling in the ratings ), the show was more of an ensemble piece, focusing on the activities of the unit as a whole ( although significant characters such as Detective Frank Pembleton and Detective John Munch, who has also appeared on the various Law & Order shows, among others, became popular with viewers ).

More recently, Davenport was part of the ensemble cast of characters in the drama series FlashForward and Smash.

The cast of characters, however, would include a large ensemble of heroes from both the DC stable and the Quality Comics Group ( which had been purchased by DC ).

The trio of red-nosed Warner siblings was considered to be the stars of the ensemble of characters on the show.

While Straight to Hell received few positive reviews upon release, it has achieved a cult following over the years, largely due to its zany plot, eccentric characters, and unusual cast ensemble.

The ensemble cast, inspired on Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi Hakkenden, includes Subaru Sumeragi and Seishiro Sakurazuka from Tokyo Babylon and the main characters of Clamp School Detectives.

It features an ensemble cast of regular characters, and began with ten main characters in its first series.

The project that was planned by Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany to arrange that prime works of art in the Medici collections on the piano nobile was effected by Francis I of Tuscany, who commissioned from Buontalenti the famous Tribuna degli Uffizi that united a selection of the outstanding masterpieces in the collection in an ensemble that was a star attraction of the Grand Tour.

This thermal effect implies that measurements of current and voltage that are taken over sufficiently short periods of time will yield ratios of V / I that fluctuate from the value of R implied by the time average or ensemble average of the measured current ; Ohm's law remains correct for the average current, in the case of ordinary resistive materials.

Tomlin also played chain-smoking waitress Doreen Piggott in Altman's 1993 ensemble film Short Cuts, and, in two films by director David O. Russell ; she appeared as a peacenik Raku artist in Flirting with Disaster and later, as an existential detective in I ♥ Huckabees.

* Patricia Shaw distances herself from the rest of the Bohm-school of dialogue, stating "... I am not trying to foster a special form or discipline of conversation ... Rather than inculcating a special discipline of dialogue, I am encouraging perceptions of ensemble improvisation as an organizing craft of communicative action " ( Patricia Shaw 2002, p. 164 ).

Shows consisting of duets, ensemble songs, humor and parodies were popular, but the format began changing significantly following World War I. Bally Prell, the " Beauty Queen of Schneizlreuth ", was emblematic of this change.

He has said that " I regard my scores as scenarios, auditory scenarios, for performers to act out with their instruments, dramatizing the players as individuals and participants in the ensemble.

Because King Frederick William I of Prussia was not a significant patron of the arts, Christian Ludwig seems to have lacked the musicians in his Berlin ensemble to perform the concertos.

His idea of getting a good ensemble effort from his actors was to take people over to Budapest for two months — the part I had might have taken two weeks in the States but he had us all over there for two months.

*" I Got the Sun in the Morning " — Annie and ensemble

In 2003 he recorded a ballet score, Thieves and Poets, along with arrangements for classical guitar ensemble of favorite jazz standards and a three-DVD instructional video on improvisation entitled " This is the Way I Do It " ( which contributed to the development of video lessons.

The same year, she also teamed up with Jude Law and Dustin Hoffman in David O. Russell's ensemble comedy I Heart Huckabees.

At the time of his coronation in 1448, Christian I engaged a permanent corps of trumpeters while by 1519, the court had a corps of court singers as well as an instrumental ensemble.

The teenaged Mosley also joined the production ensemble S. B. I.

It is presented predominantly by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ’ s music, nevertheless, the ensemble performs also music by other Central-European composers – Georg Druschetzky, Martín I Soler, Anton Stadler, Vojtech Nudera, Johann Josef Rösler and Anton Wolanek.

Unlike the S Club 7 shows which focused upon the band's fictional exploits, I Dream saw S Club 8 as members of a larger ensemble cast.

In an interview between Frank J. Oteri and Timothy Weiss, the coach of the famous contemporary music ensemble " eighth blackbird ," Weiss states " One advantage Oberlin is that there are only undergraduates, and the reason I think this is an advantage is that at a school like Juilliard or other schools you might name that have a very strong or large population of graduate students is that those students, by their nature, tend to be somewhat more vocationally minded.

In the summer of 1972 he joined the Vinnette Carroll musical Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope ensemble in Toronto, followed a month later in the American Conservatory Theater production at the Geary Theater.

Some of his other movies include If I Had A Million ( 1932 ; an episodic ensemble film in which he plays a forger hiding from police, suddenly given a million dollars with no place to cash the check ), Bolero ( 1934 ; in a rare role as a dancer rather than a gangster ), Limehouse Blues ( 1934 ; with Anna May Wong ), a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key ( 1935 ; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd in Raft's role as a result of the success of the remake of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ), Souls at Sea ( 1937 ; with Gary Cooper ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with Raft garnering top billing over Henry Fonda and John Barrymore ), two with Humphrey Bogart: Invisible Stripes ( 1939 ) and They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), with Bogart in supporting roles, Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ; with James Cagney and Raft as convicts in prison ), and Manpower ( 1941 ; with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich ).

" When he read, he had such vigour and enthusiasm – so much that it made the other actors seem limp – that I decided to cast him in the ensemble.

" I was incredibly frustrated because I had worked two years on this huge record and I was only able to perform for three months ", recalls Spooner, who subsequently retreated to his theatrical roots, joining experimental New York performance ensemble The Wooster Group.