YouOverThere
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Gil Boggs is going to perform the role of Dr. Coppelius for 3 performances in the current run of Coppelia.
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ABT Swan Lake at Kennedy Center 2024
YouOverThere replied to YouOverThere's topic in American Ballet Theatre
How I managed to blow a chance to get a ticket for it is too painful to think about (all the standing room tickets had been sold, but they did end up with some returned tickets). Watching it 5 times wasn't enough 😢 -
ABT Swan Lake at Kennedy Center 2024
YouOverThere replied to YouOverThere's topic in American Ballet Theatre
The quote was actually from a post by Hippolyta, not from my post. -
ABT Swan Lake at Kennedy Center 2024
YouOverThere replied to YouOverThere's topic in American Ballet Theatre
Yes, she definitely looked like principal material. Bell was the best of the 3 leading men that I've watched so far, by a fairly significant margin (I skipped the Friday evening show, which I might regret, so I didn't watch Stearns). I in a way feel like I'm watching Swan Lake for the first time. I'm focusing more on the supporting and corps dancing than I have in the past, and the ABT soloists and corps members have been IMHO very solid this week. -
ABT Swan Lake at Kennedy Center 2024
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3 takeaways from the Thursday performance: - Devon Teuscher is a near-perfect Odette/Odile. - If Jake Roxander learns to jump any higher, he's going to need a parachute. - The Devon Teuscher/Joo Won Ahn pairing is less than ideal. -
ABT Swan Lake at Kennedy Center 2024
YouOverThere replied to YouOverThere's topic in American Ballet Theatre
The KC will be selling standing room (according to a box office attendant), though only after all returned tickets are resold. I lucked into a free ticket (a seat, not standing room) for opening night. Na-na-na-Na-na. Isabella Boylston nailed the fouettes. -
I just started looking at tickets for the WB's current run of Jazz Icons and found that ticket prices for the same seats are substantially higher for the Thursday evening and Saturday matinee performances than they are for the Friday evening, Saturday evening, and Sunday matinee performances (I missed out on the Wednesday evening performance). I'm wondering why, as I would have expected the Saturday evening and Sunday matinee tickets to be the most expensive. It doesn't appear to be a result of "airline pricing" (only about 60% of the tickets have been sold for the Saturday matinee).
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ABT Swan Lake at Kennedy Center 2024
YouOverThere replied to YouOverThere's topic in American Ballet Theatre
All 7 performances are now sold out - 3 weeks in advance. -
ABT Swan Lake at Kennedy Center 2024
YouOverThere replied to YouOverThere's topic in American Ballet Theatre
According to the Kennedy Center website, the leads are scheduled as: Wed - Boylston/Camargo Thu - Teuscher/Ahn Fri matinee - Misseldine/Bell Fri evening - Seo/Stearns Sat matinee - Brandt/Cornejo Sat evening - Hurlin/Whiteside Sun - Shevchenko/Royal -
ABT Swan Lake at Kennedy Center 2024
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Not for those of us who have difficulty making plans and schedules much in advance and who are used to attending 2-3 performances. -
Ticket sales for ABT's annual visit to the Kennedy Center February 21-25 are, to say the least, brisk. The Saturday and Sunday shows currently only show handicapped seats available (unused handicapped seats are usually released to the general public a day or 2 before the performance), and only the Friday matinee performance is less than around 90 percent sold.
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Such as the new costumes for the little mice? I thought that white was a strange color for mice.
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I took in the WB's Nutcracker this evening. Someone (Trinidad Vives? Edwaard Laing? Tamas Krizsa?) re-worked the 1st act a little to give some serious dancing bits to Clara and Drosselmeyer's nephew/nutcracker/prince (Yay!!! I've never liked when Clara just does a little acting and then spectates.), though the roles are still danced by students in the "Professional Training Division". Andile Ndlovu appeared as the Snow King, so he apparently is recovered from the rather serious injury he suffered in the Spring of 2022. I preferred this production to Ballet West's, a sentiment shared by the woman who sat next to me.
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[somewhat off-topic] I would think from a marketing standpoint there might be some risk in presenting The Nutcracker outside of the holiday season. If it ceased to be identified as a part of holiday celebrations, would it still be as big a draw? [/somewhat off-topic]
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Just to make me a liar, the Kennedy Center released 8 seats in the rear of the orchestra today for each performance. A few of these are still available.