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...American Ballet Theater, its new million-dollar Cinderella is a crucial venture. In the past year, A.B.T. has been shaken by deficits, and in the consequent scuffles between the board of directors and management, Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov offered with some asperity to resign. The troupe set out on its national tour last December with a lot to prove to creditors, audiences and itself...
...Cinderella is not an obvious banner to follow into battle. In one form or another, the ballet dates back at least to 1813, but it has never been a truly popular theme. For A.B.T. the magic has worked: Cinderella has been a virtual sellout across the country, and, opening the company's two month New York City season last week, it proved to be a sumptuous, buoyant, surprisingly sophisticated show...
...Baryshnikov, who will remain as artistic director, Cinderella is a break with his Russian heritage. So far, he has staged two full-length ballets for A.B.T, The Nutcracker and Don Quixote; both of them are lively but well-mannered variations of traditional Russian models. That he wanted something bolder this time became apparent when he chose as co-choreographer Peter Anastos, best known as the former guiding spirit (and as Olga Tchikaboumskaya, prima ballerina) of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, an all-male travesty troupe. In such parodies as Go for Barocco (Balanchine) and Yes, Virginia, Another Piano Ballet...
Cornell, Princeton and Yale won't be so surprised if the Crimson runs to its fourth straight Ivy title. But Penn. Brown and the Cinderella story of the Ivies when it finished second in the league last year--Dartmouth--might have another thing...
With less than a week to go before bids are extended, the Harvard men's basketball team Jocks like a candidate for the Cinderella story on the 1984 National Invitational Tournament...