I require coffee
As predicted I feel much better today. The ballet was pretty good. They added some elements just for New Year's Eve. The dancing bear in Act I crept into Act II and so did Santa Claus. I've only ever seen productions that stick closely to the Balanchine choreography and this one seemed to stick to it in places and then wildly deviate from it. This was their first New Year's Eve production.
This version felt like some weird fanfic AU in which the Nutcracker Prince pairs off with the Sugar Plum Fairy and Clara is paired off with her Godfather. O_o
We had a glass of champagne at intermission. They let you bring drinks and snacks into the theatre, which just seemed so odd to me. There were a ton of children in the audience and they were mostly well behaved, but there was one excessively whiny girl a few rows behind us.
The dancing was mixed. Some of it was excellent and some of it was off kilter. The dancers all came out with Happy New Year tiaras for the finale. Then they shot confetti onto the stage, which was neat. But they then used confetti canons to shoot tons of gold and silver confetti into the audience, which was amazing. The orchestra played Auld Lang's Ayne, but it was drowned out by the audience clapping and going "Oooooo". I made that noise involuntarily because it was so surprising and pretty.
It wasn't quite ten when we got out and David wasn't sure what he wanted to do so we headed homeward and stopped in Harvard Square to grab a slice of pizza because he was starving. Then we dropped by silencegolden and paper_tzipporah's and engaged in some raunchy refrigerator magnetic poetry and drank some cava. I almost fell several times on the walk home, but I remained upright and unscathed.
This version felt like some weird fanfic AU in which the Nutcracker Prince pairs off with the Sugar Plum Fairy and Clara is paired off with her Godfather. O_o
We had a glass of champagne at intermission. They let you bring drinks and snacks into the theatre, which just seemed so odd to me. There were a ton of children in the audience and they were mostly well behaved, but there was one excessively whiny girl a few rows behind us.
The dancing was mixed. Some of it was excellent and some of it was off kilter. The dancers all came out with Happy New Year tiaras for the finale. Then they shot confetti onto the stage, which was neat. But they then used confetti canons to shoot tons of gold and silver confetti into the audience, which was amazing. The orchestra played Auld Lang's Ayne, but it was drowned out by the audience clapping and going "Oooooo". I made that noise involuntarily because it was so surprising and pretty.
It wasn't quite ten when we got out and David wasn't sure what he wanted to do so we headed homeward and stopped in Harvard Square to grab a slice of pizza because he was starving. Then we dropped by silencegolden and paper_tzipporah's and engaged in some raunchy refrigerator magnetic poetry and drank some cava. I almost fell several times on the walk home, but I remained upright and unscathed.