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| photo @Andrea Mohin |
I had reservations about going last night to see the
New York City Ballet's Balanchine Nutcracker, because I prefer Mark Morris' version
where the adults get stonkered and fall down drunk behind the sofa while
the neglected children sulk and vandalize the Christmas tree. But I
succumbed to the NYCB's technical perfection, and all the sugar.
Sterling Hyltin and
Andrew Veyette did the (in)famous
pas de deux with
such perfection that it seemed unreal, and by the time the sleigh
somehow took off into the sky, pulled by flying reindeer, I was moon
- faced and staring in amazement along with the six year olds. Their
parents played with their Iphones throughout, doing emails and even
taking calls, and the child-weary ushers did nothing to stop them...
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