grandeur

He provides a grandeur, out of place on Broadway, that suggests an instant depth to the Jets and Sharks, the Anglo and the Puerto Rican gangs.

But he said he hoped to convey the appropriate "grandeur and dignity" and that "a certain amount of stillness" would be beneficial.

Just 10 years younger at 60, Reznor performed it Thursday with all the tightly coiled emotion and intimate grandeur of the kid who wrote it.

"And immediately they were greeted with this sense of grandeur along with lots and lots of messages about what's happening in this site."

"It is like they are coming alive, reclaiming their grandeur."