They paid $1.5 million for the house and set about returning it to its period style.
With those two on board, the show has acquired, for the first time, tap numbers in authentic period style.
"He is a true child of period style, Romantic temperament and contemporary tastes."
The production, a little altered from last season, is still a joke, and probably a performance in period style needs a staging all its own.
In the spring, we talk about period style - what it is, how do you research it.
Most of the ballet had little to do with the music's period style.
They ask us to accept that a period style can remember and transcend simultaneously.
History, in other words, isn't just a matter of landmark buildings and period styles.
Just as important, they refuse to conform to the period styles of their neighbors.
The sense of period style was missing but the fun was not.