Manhattnik Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 All Purpose Swan Lake Plot Grid. Check your choices: ------------------------------ Lives Dies Other ------------------------------ Odette | | | | ------------------------------ Siegfried | | | | ------------------------------ Von R | | | | ------------------------------ Broken Unbroken ------------------------------ Spell | | | ------------------------------ Link to comment
Treefrog Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Do we get to vote before each performance? Majority of votes decides that night's outcome? I like it -- interactive ballet! Link to comment
Hans Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Now if only we could make the Jester die. Link to comment
Kate B Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 What is the 'other' in lives/dies/other ? Link to comment
Mary J Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 Isn'r other short for ambiguous metaphysical state? Link to comment
Ed Waffle Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 Something like this is popular in opera circle. It is "What if" a character did something else. Boheme What if Rodolfo decided to go along to the Cafe Momus with his friends when they first asked? When Mimi knocked on the door there would be no one home. Salome What if when Salome says "Ich will deinen Mund kussen, Jochanaan" he answers "Pucker up, baby"? At least there wouldn't be any difficulty with the dance of the seven veils, since there wouldn't be one. Turandot What if the Prince of Persia gets the answers to Turandot's riddles right? At least we would be spared Michael Bolton trying to sing "Nessum Dorma". Link to comment
Farrell Fan Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 The "other" is what happens in Peter Martins' Swan Lake. Link to comment
Nanatchka Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 Which is what? What happens? Von Rothbart dies, right?( Or he runs off in reduced circumstances, crouched over, and is no longer allowed to wear a cape--which is what we see.) Odette stays a Swan forever ( right?) even though Von Rothbart's power is broken. So what good is it that his power is broken? They're stuck being swans. (Or were they all swans, and only Odette was suffering from a spell?) Is the happy part that Von Rothbart doesn't bother the swans anymore, propagating daughters (the black swans)? I;m confused. I think "other" stands for "what was that?" Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 Odette flies to Japan, is changed into kelp, gets harvested, and is last seen being devoured in a Nobunaga-era sushi bar. Now THAT'S other! Link to comment
Kate B Posted May 17, 2003 Share Posted May 17, 2003 Or, Odette moves to London, gets a job in the City, makes a big pile of money and lives happily ever after in a riverside apartment, seeing whatever sexy men she likes and going to the ballet whenever she wants. Sorry, Swan Lake is one of my favourite ballets, but I do think she could have been a bit tougher and stood up for herself sometimes. Link to comment
carbro Posted May 17, 2003 Share Posted May 17, 2003 Or it turns out that Odette suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder, and Odile is simply one of her other identities. Link to comment
atm711 Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 Siegfried and von Rothbart decide they are made for each other. They pluck both Odette and Odile clean, and start a feathered hat business. ---but, on second thought, this sounds like a 'Swan Lake' I have seen . . . . Link to comment
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