Performance of 2/3, Tuesday which was nearly a sellout except there were 10 adjacent house seats empty and quite visible in the orchestra.
Great fun and an audience favorite already.
Double Feature is just that--two one act ballets based upon silent movie conventions. The NY Times review in the Monday, Jan 26th NY Times is quite fair.
The first one is better than the second although that is to say the second one (Plotwise based closely on the plot of the recent film The Bachelor)is merely very good and the first one is excellent.
What Stroman has done is make a ballet using ballet vocabulary but endow it with a Broadway-show biz sensibility. This will be in the rep for quite a loing time and will make NYCB quite a bit of money.
Act 1 is called The Blue Necklace and it is strictly a ballet. Act II, called Makin' Whoopee, is a comic ballet that uses some modern dance as well. The cast is huge. Makin' Whoopee uses a large corps de ballet and Necklace has a not-as-large one.
Two more performances-Wed (tonight) and Thurs although I wonder if it will be due back in the spring.
Try to plan your trip around it if it is in the schedule.
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