A TRIBUTE TO TCHAIKOVSKY

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

WHERE'S THEM DAMN SWANS ? ? ?

BOY THATS THE QUESTION I WAS ASKING AFTER ARRIVING ON TIME FOR THE ALLEGED SWAN LAKE....SLEEPING BEAUTY DOUBLEHEADER AT THE SMITH CENTER FRIDAY NIGHT !

THEY DID EVENTUALLY ARRIVE...THANK YOU !

THIS.... THE FABULOUS TCHAIKOVSKY ....SWAN LAKE-SLEEPING BEAUTY PAIR ....AT THE SMITH CENTER FROM THE NEVADA BALLET THEATRE.

ADVERTISING ...7:30 P M.....NOT HERE....AT 744....ARTISTIC  DIRECTOR JAMES CANFIELD APPEARED FOR HIS PRE SHOW REMARKS AND AT 751 THE FIRST SWAN HIT THE STAGE....TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE...WHAT AN AWFUL DISRESPECT FOR THE AUDIENCE AND DROPPING 21 POINTS OFF MY GRADING SCORE FOR WHAT WAS REALLY REALLY FABULOUS BALLET.

ITS THE WAY IT WAS !

OK......I LOVE THE BALLET AND THE NBT AND EVERYTHING THEY DO AND IT WAS ALL SUPER ON FRIDAY NIGHT.

THIS..... ACT 11 FROM SWAN LAKE....... SUPER TERRIFIC....WELL DANCED...WELL STAGED BY CYNTHIA GREGORYAND BETTER THAN WELL CHOREOGRAPHED BY LEV IVANOV AND MARIUS PETIPA....I SALUTE YOU....I THANK YOU....I LOVED IT.

IT IS TRUE THAT 120 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH TCHIAKOVSKY IS IMPROVING,.... BUT HE IS ! ! !

THE NBT IN THE MIDDLE OF A TCHIAKOVSKY HAT TRICK WITH THIS PAIR AND THEIR ANNUAL NUTCRACKER...... DECEMBER 14-DECEMBER 22 AT THE SMITH CENTER DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS....IN MY DECLINING YEARS I HOPE TO HANG ON FOR TWO MORE MONTHS TO AGAIN SEE THIS CHRISTMAS CLASSIC.  OH YA...TICKETS 702 749 2000.....GET EM FAST !

OK..... BACK TO SWAN LAKE.....THEY COULD HAVE DONE THE WHOLE BALLET OR DID THIS PRODUCTION EVERY NIGHT FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE....IT WAS A NEWISH TAKE WITH NOTHING LEFT OUT OR ADDED TO SCREW IT UP....ALL THE STANDARD MOVES AND REALLY GREAT LINES BY 18 RATHER TALL SWANS.......THEY FLEW IN A BIT LATE ON THIS NIGHT.....ALISSA DALE AS ODETTE AND STEVE GOFORTH AS PRINCE SIEGFRIED WERE SUPERB AND COMPLIMENTED MY 18 SWANS PERFECTLY.

I LOVE THE SWANS....WISH THEY COULD HAVE BEEN ON TIME.

INTERMISSION...25 MINUTES....THAT WITH 21 MINUTES LATE AT KICKOFF.... YOU HAVE 46 MINUTES DEAD TIME BETWEEN TWO 33 MINUTE BALLETS......I AM BIG ON NUMBERS AND PAYING ATTENTION....LOTS OF DEAD TIME....

OF COURSE HERE ANY WAIT DOES NOT DETRACT FROM APPRECIATION OF THE EFFORT...BUT IT DOES DELETE THEIR SCORE....SEEMS SO ODD YOU PUT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS INTO CAREERS AND PRODUCTION AND DETAIL AND COSTUMES AND THEN START LATE ?

OK

THEN THEIR WAS SLEEPING BEAUTY....ACT 111 (AURORA'S WEDDIDNG) ANOTHER GOOD EXAMPLE OF HOW GREAT THE NBT COSTUMING IS OVER A LIFETIME.....OUTSTANDING AS USUAL.  SOME GUEST ARTISTS HERE ....3 MALE DANCERS...THEY.DIDN'T HURT THE PRODUCTION....BUT THE KIDS DID !

HERE THE PROTOTYPE EXAMPLE WHY IT IS NEVER A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE PETS AND KIDS ON STAGE !  TWO SIXISH BOYS CARRYING THE  TAILS OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS WERE FINKY....UNEVEN...GAUKING....LEANING...PICKING THEIR NOSE AND UNSTABLE ! WHAT....?
HOW SO...I .DON'T KNOW HOW OR WHY THIS CAUGHT MY ATTENTION BUT IT DID ESPECIALLY REVEALING MY ATTENTION TO DETAIL.....WHEN ALL NON MOVING DANCERS ON STAGE SHOULD BE STATUESQUELY MONITERING THE MOVEMENTS !  EITHER POOR COACHING OR POOR SELECTION OR BOTH....MAYBE THE BLAME FALLS ON THE SAME PARTY THE CAUSED THE LATENESS OF THIS SHOW.
I DO KNOW I DID NOT HAVE THIS ISSUE WITH ANYONE ELSE ON STAGE.

A LOVELY BALLET AGAIN WITH TCHAIKOVSKY MUSIC AND CHOREOGRAPHY BY MARIUS PETIPA AND STAGING BY JANE WOOD-SMITH AND PAMELA ROBINSON-HARRIS.

I LIKED SWAN LAKE BETTER BUT OF COURSE NOTHING WILL EVER BE BETTER THAN THAT....THANK YOU NBT FOR BRING THIS PERFECT PROGRAM TO SOUTHERN NEVADA.

YOU........... CAN DO THE NUTCRACKER IN DECEMBER........ 702 749 2000

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