Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 13, 2010
Closed Nov 7, 2010
Opened Oct 13, 2010
Closed Nov 7, 2010
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Matthew Bourne blends dance, humor and spectacle with extravagant, award-winning set and costume designs by Lez Brotherston and lighting design by Rick Fisher, to create a provocative and powerful Swan Lake for our times. Now firmly crowned as a modern-day classic, this iconic production is perhaps best known for replacing the traditional female corps de ballet with a menacing male ensemble.
Collecting over 30 international theater awards, Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake has been acclaimed as a landmark achievement on the international stage. It has become the longest running ballet in the West End and on Broadway and enjoyed four hugely successful tours in the UK and thrilled audiences all over the world.
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[Editor's note: Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake is danced by alternating principal casts; this review is based on the Friday, October 15 performance.]
Twelve years after it first exhilarated -- and in some cases, shocked -- theatergoers, Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake has flown back into town, this time for a limited engagement at New York City Center. And there have been no more welcome birds since those swallows returned to Capistrano.
Using all of Tchaikovsky's magnificent score (heard here on recordiing) while drastically altering the plot of the original 19th-century ballet, the inventive British choreographer-director -- working in tandem with brilliant set and costume designer Lez Brotherst[...]