From my FB post at intermission:

I'm at The Slutcracker and having an awesome time. Am I comically missing the point if I say that was a beautiful sex scene? The title character has the face of Dionysus himself. Pink sparkly Dionysus.

...which I enjoyed immensely.

One thing that I went into the show not knowing, just because I never thought to ask and no one thought to mention it: The Slutcracker uses the entire Tchaikovsky score of The Nutcracker. I had no idea that was the case. I'd assumed it was the dance equivalent of a jukebox musical and had a storyline vaguely relating ( Read more... )