Fortunately, for this performance Carlo Altomare, Penta and Tim Wright have devised a score that gives pointed wit to the lines and the choreographed movements of the cast.

I liked a Greek chorus of ditzy ladies and was surprised by the pointed wit in a scene involving an extremist pest exterminator determined to wipe out "termites of mass destruction" at any cost.

Nothing could be more cheerful than his temper: he knew how to pass and receive a joke; raillery was one of his distinguished talents, and with which he possessed that of pointed wit and repartee.

But too much of the time he had his dancers just bounce and tumble with more energy than pointed wit.

Earlier translations show how easy it is to flub the small but pointed wit here.

The production, which runs through Nov. 9, punctures nostalgia for tranquil happiness with pointed wit.

On Wednesday and Thursday evenings, it is in English (up to a point: the songs, half the show, are in Spanish, and the pointed wit of some colloquial expressions simply evaporates in another language).

The evening was a wonderment of relaxation, calm civility, gentle yet pointed wit peppered through with irony and sarcasm.

Rega was older than Syle, with a pointed wit and a sharp gaze that measured everyone it fell upon and usually found them wanting.

Miguel's first book of caricatures The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans was a hit, though not all his subjects were thrilled that his sharp, pointed wit was aimed at them.