Paul Parish Posted February 24, 2002 Share Posted February 24, 2002 They made a movie of "On your Toes" -- cmplete with Balanchine's choreography for Princess Zenobia and Slautghter on 19th Avenue.... Anybody got it? Ive got a few treasures I could share in exchange for a copy..... Link to comment
rg Posted February 24, 2002 Share Posted February 24, 2002 on p. 565 of my book, paul, i have the 'princess zenobia' ballet listed, as being given in THAT'S DANCING, in an entry where i've misspelling charles laskey's name (w/out the 'e'). sigh. the full movie is also 'around' tho' i've never seen a bright and shining copy myself. Link to comment
dirac Posted February 25, 2002 Share Posted February 25, 2002 FYI: http://www.moviesunlimited.com/musite/defa...FJ32HMF24839F0B Link to comment
Paul Parish Posted February 28, 2002 Author Share Posted February 28, 2002 thanks Dirac -- but did you realize that that video is not the movie but something in hte "Making of" series: On Your Toes: ...The Making Of George Balanchine's groundbreaking 1936 work that featured music by Rodgers and Hart is staged by choreographer Larry Fuller. Along with Haydee, the cast includes Birgit Keil, Randy Diamond, Vladimir Klos. Do you know anything about these productions? Paul Link to comment
rg Posted February 28, 2002 Share Posted February 28, 2002 as i vaguely recall from one brief look at this 'making of...' vid. it amounts to a little feature on the creation of this choreographer's own rendering of 'on your toes' (mostly rehearsal footage, or so it now seems in retrospect) quite unmemorable all around if mem. serves... certainly it bears little or no relation to the original by balanchine. [ February 28, 2002, 02:21 PM: Message edited by: rg ] Link to comment
Mme. Hermine Posted March 1, 2002 Share Posted March 1, 2002 i think you're right rg, and that it even has scenes of singing lessons, etc. not very good, at least to me. Link to comment
dirac Posted March 2, 2002 Share Posted March 2, 2002 I did realize it was a "making of" movie instead of the thing itself; I probably should have clarified that when I included the link. However, I hadn't seen it myself, (which I also ought to have mentioned) so thanks for the appraisals. Never heard anything, positive or negative, about the production, but the cast doesn't sound terribly well suited to it, I must say. Link to comment
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