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Glover’s tempos throughout the concert were sensible and unexaggerated, with ample room to breathe but no dragging, and the playing was lovely — though the violins sometimes took on a slightly thin, wiry edge, highlighted by the cool clarity of Geffen Hall’s acoustics.

Compared to that, van Hove’s staging is, even with the ominous wisps of smoke hanging around, a breath of fresh air, featuring an excellent cast and conducted with unexaggerated vitality by Nathalie Stutzmann.

In the Debussy, their often haunting approach fractures the lines in the first movement ever so slightly, like the spider-web craquelure in the varnish of an old master painting; their Stravinsky exudes good-natured, unaffected, unexaggerated warmth.

And Kratzer is gifted at eliciting forceful yet restrained performances, particularly in tense but unexaggerated duets.

Colin Davis, the head of original scripted planning at Roku, said in a statement that “there clearly aren’t enough biopic movies about famous musicians and we were excited to shine a light on the incredibly true, unexaggerated story of Weird Al.”