Dale Posted May 20, 2003 Share Posted May 20, 2003 On Thursday, May 22 between 7-10:00am (EDT), NBC’s Today Show will broadcast a feature on Christopher Wheeldon’s Carnival of the Animals. Link to comment
Tessa Posted May 24, 2003 Share Posted May 24, 2003 I saw this (and was thrilled, since it's unlikely I will get up to NYC to see the real deal.) Katie Couric demanded that John Lithgow perform some of the elephant section for her, and he agreed to do so only if she would learn it as well- she seemed a little taken aback (I think it was a non-scripted moment). She wasn't too bad, though not much of an elephant. Link to comment
rkoretzky Posted May 24, 2003 Share Posted May 24, 2003 I caught the end of the segment and almost bought a ticket to NYCB for that night! The fact that I am 170 miles away and had just come back from two days in the city was a bit of a deterrent, though. We are 6 and a half weeks from the SPAC residency and we have three performances of Carnival. Is there any word on who we might see as the Elephant? Dare we hope that John Lithgow would come here? If so, and if marketed, the place would sell out, which it sadly doesn't too often for the ballet. Yoo Hoo, Dale??? Can you get any info? Link to comment
Dale Posted May 24, 2003 Author Share Posted May 24, 2003 I will ask about Lithgow and Saratoga. Link to comment
rkoretzky Posted May 24, 2003 Share Posted May 24, 2003 [edited] On the one hand I wish that NYCB at SPAC would sell out every performance without an additional "hook". On the other hand, whatever gets a paying (and hopefully returning) audience into the seats is a very good thing. Link to comment
Farrell Fan Posted May 24, 2003 Share Posted May 24, 2003 At the May 5 NYCB seminar on "Carnival of the Animals," with John Lithgow, Christopher Wheeldon, and Christine Redpath, Lithgow said he'd be going to Saratoga to reprise his role. It wasn't clear to me from what he said whether he'd be doing one performance there or all of them. Link to comment
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