Jump to content
This Site Uses Cookies. If You Want to Disable Cookies, Please See Your Browser Documentation. ×

LMCtech

Senior Member
  • Posts

    310
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by LMCtech

  1. But back to "I, Claudius". I truly love this series. The acting is really amazing not to mention the cast. In addition to the previous mentioned names: Patrick Stewart, John Rhys-Davies, John Hurt, Simon Callow. All before they were better known for other roles. And I love the costumes. I have fantasies of wearing beautiful diaphanos silks with my hair piled artistically on top of my head. How glamorous! I love the scene when Caligula is eating one bite out of each peach and then throwing the rest into to street. A good demonstration of Roman decadence I think.
  2. Another good example. At least in SF we don't have to worry about a lack of restaurants. We have more than our share in EVERY neighborhood. I read somewhere that it would take 7 years to eat at every restaurant in SF if you ate 3 meals a day out and then you would have to start over because there would be all these noew restaurants because turnover is so quick.
  3. Does anyone have info as to where they have all gone. Especially Ashe?
  4. Or Denver Center in Denver or the Music Center in LA... San Francisco has actually pulled itself together in the last 20 years and built a rather nice facility in the Yerba Buena Center, but the theater is small and parking is expensive. And it took them a long time to get the funding in place.
  5. Why doesn't Boston have a Lincoln Center? Why doesn't San Francisco? The simple answer is that no one thoguht it was important enough to build one. Or maybe that's the short answer, not the simple answer.
  6. In term of touring costs, depending on the venue and the number of dancers and whether the orchestra is going, the cost to tour (even just to Worchester) would probably be at least $100,00-$250,000. That hardly seems worth it to a company that is struggling financially already.
  7. I'm sure they had their reasons. After all, the SFO costume shop does have a special extra long tape measure just for Pavarotti.
  8. Hmm...is this a legal tactic ob the Bolshoi's part?
  9. Oh, don't get me started on Clear Chaneel. Their particular style of hardball used to be called illegal in this country. citibob, do you mean seveal smaller productions of Nut running all at the same time? I don't think that would work if you only have on set of scenery and/or costumes, as I suspect BB has.
  10. Umm, how would that keep down costs? Touring is EXPENSIVE. Even if you are just touring around the block.
  11. I'm glad they are doing this ballet. I think it is an important one and I think they should be returning to their "roots" more often. Maybe it will help revive them.
  12. I'll come as The Siren from Prodigal Son. She's got the best hat. I will need a Prodigal Son though.
  13. Alexandra, I stand corrected. You are absolutely right. I agree with the vicious cycle comment. The media wants to give us what they think we want to hear even if it isn't really the story or even if it isn't really good journalism.
  14. I worked wtih Anna Netrebko in the late '90's at SF Opera. What a talent. Head and shoulders above everyone else and drop dead gorgeous. All the guys on the crew had a huge crush on her (even the gay ones). Two up and comers who have simply beautiful faces (and voices) are Donita Volkwejn and Suzanne Ramo. Mel Ulrich is a truly dreamy baritone. Bryn Terfel is kind of goofy looking in person, but onstage he's quite charismatic.
  15. I think any publicity is good. I just wish this particular story didn't make us all out to be high-strung anorexic obsessive compulsives with no foothold in reality. I don't think weight is what this story is about, but you wouldn't know that listening to or reading the American media. This story is too complicated for most newscasts to accurately report given their shortcomings.
  16. I just finfished a book of essays on Mozart's Don Giovanni and I am now reading the new Harry Potter. I know....
  17. Not to mention entire companies that have had to cancel their scheduled tours.
  18. Cincinnati Conservatory of Music has a good program (by good I mean their graduates work). University of Michigan also has a good program.
  19. we had quite a bit of visual arts projects in grade school, that was probably due to the teachers I had. We had music once a week until fifth grade. I was in choir from fifth grade on. I also had drama in high school.
  20. Hmm, good question. I think Feijoo and Boada in Don Q were definitely a highlight. The "second cast" in Allegro Brillante" was also a highlight. The revival of Jinx was another highlight. The HORRIBLE costumes in Paquita were DEFINITELY a low-light, with the equally horrible costumes in Tutu coming in a close second. I thought Feijoo and Tan had particularly strong seasons. And seeing so many new faces in lead roles was very exciting.
  21. I can't make a definitive decision on this because I haven't seen NYCB perform in several years, but I have seen ABT, and I hope thiey aren't the best American ballet company. I was impressed and dismayed by their sloppy technique and obvious lack of good coaching. I certainly hope there is something better than this out there in the USA.
  22. But was the company bad or was the ballet bad? I think it is important to make that distinction. I agree with you, cargill. I enjoy reading reviews like this because they amuse me. I hate gushing reviews, they tell me nothing useful, whereas bad reviews do. I may not agree with any critic but I will read their review (espcially the disparaging ones) and keep it in the back of my ming the next time I see the company. I also disagree with the last paragraph. It's a little too NYC-centric for my West Coast sensibilities. I don't think the French need anything American to fix them. Their antidote will have to come from within.
  23. I say no, because I saw Martins Sleeping Beauty which was the worst I've ever seen and I would not want to see his botching of another classic. Besides the classics are not what NYCB does best. The neo-classics are.
  24. I'm not sure what the big uproar is about. All the companies I know of (except SAB, but that's another discussion) that have schools attached use students as understudies and to augment big ballets. There are union rules about company members having piority in casting, maybe that's where the tension lies.
×
×
  • Create New...