“In order to have a slow-motion walk of me, I have to sing in double time,” says Tricia Fukuhara, who plays Nancy in “Pink Ladies.”

Turner was a force of aerobic power, belting her way through covers of John Fogerty's "Proud Mary" and Sly Stone's "I Want to Take You Higher" as her limbs churned away with precision and in double time.

Langston syncopates his verbal abstractions in double time and then triple time, delivering conundrums like: “Creative manners to skip and erase from moment to moment/abstract, realist, most problematic version of futurism.”

The taut braiding of speech and singing in “eL/Aficionado,” often performed in double time over the 72-beats-per-minute pulse of the accompaniment, would seem to allow for little creative variation.

Not only does it have a lower interest rate, but polishing off the payments in double time can open up all sorts of options.