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...fairy tale, it's magic, it's entertainment," says Choreographer George Balanchine. "It's like beautiful flowers: they don't tell you anything, but they make you feel good." Balanchine is talking about the ballet known in Germany as Der Nussknacker, in France as Casse-Noĩsette and throughout the English-speaking world as The Nutcracker. Not even Walt Disney could top it. Right on stage a Christmas tree grows magically to an enormous height. A nutcracker doll springs to life, defends its young mistress, Marie, against an army of huge mice, then turns into...
...Sleeping Beauty. "Yes, the old fellow is getting worn out," he concluded. Tchaikovsky was one of music's great pessimists. The score is an indestructible delight. Over the years Nutcracker has probably played to more children, parents and lovers of both dance and make-believe than any other ballet in history...
...singer who used to entertain the towel-clad clientele at Manhattan's gay Continental Baths, Bette Midler can look forward to at least a dressier audience this January at the New York State Theater. Belting Bette is scheduled to appear there with the New York City Ballet in a new production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Seven Deadly Sins. Celebrated Choreographer George Balanchine chose her to play the lead role of the peripatetic showgirl Annie, a part created in 1933 by Weill's widow Lotte Lenya. Why? "She has a good voice...
...dances in the body of the book part of the show held things up like tentpoles. As for the treacherous ballet, Baryshnikov sleeps tight tonight...
...observer in mufti said it looked like "a college mixer on Mars." "Illusions," a fund-raising costume ball for Manhattan's Harkness Ballet Foundation, attracted 600 guests, including a walking Brillo pad, a spangled birdwoman and an elephantman with a trunk like a phallus. Among the party poppers: Actress Julie Newmar, who came barely disguised as a butterfly. "I thought it best not to be totally naked," confided Julie. "Just half-naked...