airily

I told my story light and airily, but it was heavy when it happened.

The play’s snotty actors, meanwhile, clearly consider their foe a proletarian rube and airily patronize him.

“Oh, didn’t anyone tell you?” the mystery girl asked airily.

The production that opened on Wednesday at the Park Avenue Armory, directed by Icke and starring Juliet Stevenson, is less the exercise in Shavian moral argument that Schnitzler rather airily called a comedy than a tragic thought experiment about the failure of identity politics.

Her long aria in the second act, as she remembers her childhood in the Virgin Islands and suggests some of the unhappiness she’s passed on, is perhaps the most musically intriguing sequence in the show, with a seductive, soaring vocal line — tailor-made for Latonia Moore’s airily flexible soprano, with its passionate high notes — and a quiet, austere plucked accompaniment for a solo double bass.