My mom called. She heard the PA Ballet was doing Cinderella. Guess who she wanted to take? So the three of us girls went together. This was an excellent idea, particularly because F was in NYC overnight, so this gave us something fun to do ( Read more... )

On Saturday December 12, I took Freya on a Mommy/daughter date to see the Nutcracker. I felt, for her first time, she was a little too young to do the train ride downtown to see the PA Ballet do it, so we went to a production put on by The Rock School over in Havertown, at the Havertown School. It was actually excellent, with even their littlest ( Read more... )

When my mom got the tickets, I was all on board with going to this ballet, but when the day actually rolled around I felt tired, gigantic, and not very excited about going downtown on a Sunday and cramming myself into a tiny theater seat. Thankfully the ballet was well worth seeing.

The program started with the Barber Violin Concerto, which we'd ( Read more... )

Last week Mom and I went to see the ballet Peter Pan. We really enjoyed it ( Read more... )

A few weeks back my mom and I hit the ballet for the first time in a while. Their sales office had called her up and asked why she didn't subscribe anymore, and she told them about the poor service we'd had on our subscription in the past and how the opera had more interesting shows and better service. They offered her a good deal: to pick two or ( Read more... )

Mom and I saw La Sylphide at the PA Ballet yesterday (Sunday June 7, 2009). It's a full-length story ballet. The plot: a young Scottish farmer, James, is scheduled to marry his sweetheart, but on the eve of the wedding he falls in love with a beautiful sylph instead. He chases the sylph out into the forest, where he buys a magic shawl from a ( Read more... )

On Sunday, I went to the ballet with Mom. I haven't been posting my ballet reviews at all this year, which is completely lame of me. I haven't posted a ballet review since last June. Well, we've still been going to the ballet. Here's a brief recap of what we've seen so far ( Read more... )

Wow, I am so behind on posting my review of this one.

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Today my mom and I went to see Coppelia. I was really excited about this one, and had been since we first heard the lineup of shows for this ballet season. I'd heard of it before, and I'd thought it was about a doll who comes to life. Actually, not really. It's really about a bratty popular girl.

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Mom and I went to the ballet today. It was Handel's Messiah. Based on the poster art, I was expecting a lot more wings and a lot less Jesus, but oh well. ( Read more... )