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...golden velvet curtain slowly rises at the Wang Center. A magnificent forest filled with frolicking fairies and flutterig butterflies appears behind it. Suddenly Puck, an elfin creature scantily clad with leaves, leaps into view. He chuckles and grins as he dashes and twirls about the stage. The audience gasps with delight at the magical picture, captivated by the fairy-tale scene unfurling through pirouettes and arabesques before their very eyes. But this is not your everyday, run-of-the-mill Brothers Grimm tale winning the hearts of people all over the city. This week, the Boston Ballet is weaving Shakespeare...
...curtain-raiser to "A Mid-summer Night's Dream," the Boston Ballet performs a short dance entitled "Glazounov Classique," an elegant piece with several short solos. Each of the dancers give an excellent performance, but Adriana Suarez in particular stands out. As the lead female of the dance, she is an absolute wonder to behold. Her fluid style contrasts with her sharp, majestic movements to create a spellbinding performance...
...reciting the same lines but giving them a different emphasis each night. When he finishes, there is a collective hush before the audience rises to its feet in applause. Buchanan inclines his head to the orchestra seats and the balcony, but strides off, head down, without taking a curtain call. Great actors do not have to believe what they say, but only seem to. Great politicians believe what they say and also seem to, and that is what resonates with the people who believe in Pat Buchanan...
...curtain rose, I saw the first of many surprisingly exquisite sets. These painted wonders were the lone source of continuous joy in the production. Unfortunately, this first set heralded the arrival of a long sequence of scenes introducing an unnecessarily large cast of outlandish characters. After the third such scene, there were many more than Pirandello's "Six," and they were searching for a plot, not an author...
After intermission, during which the slew of curtain-based advertisements again confronted the audience, the show's plot appeared ready for a quick finish. But the cloying musical numbers and strings of bad puns continued, this time made still more unbearable by the addition of tired jokes about Yale and Wellesley...