Romeo, serial killer of Verona
To close their season every year, BalletMet does something huge. Last year it was Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. And this year it was Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliette. Usually, that's not something I'd be terribly excited about, but I figured Romeo having no lines could only be an improvement
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In the play Romeo duels Paris before Juliet's tomb (poor Paris is standing vigil before the crypt of his beloved...poor Paris).
I'm still annoyed at Romeo inadvertantly stabbing Mercucio while trying to hand him the dagger. What gives, team? Or, put another way: "Haw in ze hell?"
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Especially in something like this where the music was piped in - my attention tends to get focused on the visual. This is why I didn't like The Flying Dutchman - I really disliked the visual stuff they were doing and that overpowered the Wagner. Joel-Henry liked it very much, because for him it was the other way around.
With the ballet it was nothing like that. I'm just not good at hearing music or seeing dance, especially when the former is canned.
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Heh. Well, there's a very small percentage of people who can really appreciate ballet. (Except for Barishnikov. He's got such personality!)
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Ballet is hard. That's why we didn't bring the boys. But I'm trying, and I'm getting better. Learning the dancers helps - because they do have personality, and some of them are particularly good at putting it into the dance.
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