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[bart]

MCB's Board Chairman has just announced the dates for their six performances at NY City Center:  January 21 - 25, 2009.

It sounds like everyone at MCB is just a LITTLE bit excited:

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We want you to share in the excitement of Miami City Ballet's triumphant New York City Debut and Edward Villella's homecoming.

It's hard to believe that over 50 years have passed since Villella first danced for Balanchine on the City Center stage.

Ticket and program information -- and special events planned -- are not yet available.

[cubanmiamiboy]

bart, on May 5 2008, 11:11 AM, said:

MCB's Board Chairman has just announced the dates for their six performances at NY City Center:  January 21 - 25, 2009.

It sounds like everyone at MCB is just a LITTLE bit excited:

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We want you to share in the excitement of Miami City Ballet's triumphant New York City Debut and Edward Villella's homecoming.

It's hard to believe that over 50 years have passed since Villella first danced for Balanchine on the City Center stage.

Ticket and program information -- and special events planned -- are not yet available.

I client of mine from New York who's very involved with MCB told me that over there her friends and old time balletgoers were talking about Eddie's homecoming as "The Return of The Prodigal Son".
Bravo Eddie! Bravo MCB!  

[Haglund's]

cubanmiamiboy, on May 5 2008, 03:51 PM, said:

bart, on May 5 2008, 11:11 AM, said:

MCB's Board Chairman has just announced the dates for their six performances at NY City Center:  January 21 - 25, 2009.

It sounds like everyone at MCB is just a LITTLE bit excited:

Quote

We want you to share in the excitement of Miami City Ballet's triumphant New York City Debut and Edward Villella's homecoming.

It's hard to believe that over 50 years have passed since Villella first danced for Balanchine on the City Center stage.

Ticket and program information -- and special events planned -- are not yet available.

I client of mine from New York who's very involved with MCB told me that over there her friends and old time balletgoers were talking about Eddie's homecoming as "The Return of The Prodigal Son".
Bravo Eddie! Bravo MCB!  

This is very exciting news!  It is truly a homecoming and such a great opportunity to reconnect with an important part of this city's dance history.  

We need a tribute – A Tribute to Edward Villella Evening.  This is just the kind of thing that the Guggenheim's Works & Process does so well.  I'm emailing Manny Rodriguez, who is the Associate Producer of W&P, today.  If anyone else wants to write, Manny's email address is manny.rodriguez@verizon.net (taken from the Gugg's website).  Anyone out there have Mary Sharp Cronson's email?

[carbro]

Haglund's, were you at the MCB Works & Process during the Balanchine Centennial (discussed here)? It was a great evening, and I would love to have Villella and some of his dancers return to that format.  And I hope that next year, the yummies include those cheese sticks.  The receptions haven't been quite the same without the cheese sticks.

But I'm not going to participate in the e-mail campaign.  I know what my reaction would be to a storm of e-mails from strangers telling me how to do my job.  My normally even temperament would be set boiling, and I'd probably resist taking their well intended advice.

[cubanmiamiboy]

carbro, on May 7 2008, 10:36 PM, said:

But I'm not going to participate in the e-mail campaign.  I know what my reaction would be to a storm of e-mails from strangers telling me how to do my job.  My normally even temperament would be set boiling, and I'd probably resist taking their well intended advice.

He,he...i'm sorry i had to laugh at your post.  Very straight to the point. he,he