Spreading the Word. Persuading the Public to Buy Tickets for the Unfamiliar

[Fonty]

It was with BRB a few years ago.  I'll post if the title comes to me - can't think of it right now.  I can remember Marion Tait (coaching not dancing) in it vividly.

 

Found it - Ballet Hoo!

 

 

 

Yes, of course.  I thought it was BRB, but I wasn't absolutely sure.  I still remember the girl who played Lady Capulet, with her braided hair swinging about as she lamented over the dead body of Tybalt.  And the young lads who struggled to choreograph and finally put together atheir break dance routine to the Mandolin Dance music.

 

Edited to add I found a clip of Youtube.  The Mandolin Dance is about two and half minutes in.  But the whole clip is brilliant:

 

Edited September 24, 2015 by Fonty

[Ian Macmillan]

Spreading the word?  Are you an 'urban millennial' and living in Oregon?  If so, "Come watch ballet.  We'll give you a beer."  

 

http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/09/pabst_oregon_ballet_coming_to.html

 

So, now you've got that far, might we address the matter of the "bare-chested, on pointe ballet dancer"?  Is it a chap - 'a finely trained athlete' -or is it a girl with a bodice to that tutu?

[Pas de Quatre]

No, he's not on pointe, just jumping with beautifully stretched feet!