MBF reports that NYC is still NYC. We are definitely going to at least two performances of NYCB. Too bad that we have to miss this (apparently we "only" get Rachel Rutherford). I'm also informed we're also going to see Miles and Coltrane: 50th Anniversary of Kind of Blue and Giant Step. More his thing than mine, but, somewhat surprisingly after all these years, it will be my first time attending an event here.
I'm interested in seeing the new Alice Tully Hall and how the whole Lincoln Center reconstruction is going. Pity there is still a lack of really good restaurants in the immediate vicinity.
I'm off to a PNB school performance of Pinocchio in a little while, courtesy of a friend. Should be fun.
I am equal parts euphoric and anxious about my upcoming trip to NYC. Eager to go, but feeling quite tense about how I'm ever going to be able to cram in half of the things I want to do (and keep up my energy to do so). Still, I feel better having connected with a few friends over the past couple of days and made some at least tentative plans. MBF is attempting to pick up some tickets for a few NYCB performances even as I bang away at this keyboard.
I'm a bit disappointed at the ballet programming, or, not so much the programs themselves this time, but the repetitiveness (i.e. not only the same program, but the same cast each time). I probably will only be able to go two performances. It seems more worthwhile at this point to use the rest of the time to do other things rather than sitting through the same thing more than once. But we shall see. It looks as if NYCB is moving away from the dreaded "block programming" in its spring schedule.
Meanwhile, I will be going to the ballet here again tonight. Same program as last week, but with an entirely different cast. The PNB production of Jewels even has drawn the (favorable) attention of the New York Times. I'll wait until I've had a chance to see this other cast to compare/share notes.
