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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

The Sleeping Beauty, American Ballet Theatre, Orange County Performing Arts Center (2007)

Cast: Gillian Murphy (Princess Aurora), Ethan Stiefel (Prince Desire), Stella Abrera (The Lilac Fairy), Gelsey Kirkland (The Fairy Carabosse)
For complete info, see the Orange County Performing Arts Center The Sleeping Beauty page.

The American Ballet Theatre did an amazing job, as always. The sets, costumes, make-up, special effects, and ballet in The Sleeping Beauty were amazing. It was great to see Gillian Murphy again. I'm also happy that I finally got to see Ethan Stiefel perform live. I had hoped once he took over at the Irvine Barclay Theatre that he would do more performances there, but I hadn't been able to catch him in anything yet. It was nice to see Gelsey Kirkland, too. I had amazing luck with these tickets. The cast was fabulous.

I highly recommend any American Ballet Theatre production. The only issue with this one is that the float they used to take Princess Aurora around during Prince Desire's dream and Prince Desire & The Lilac Fairy in another scene was very jerky in one spot on stage. It was pretty distracting.

Grade: B+

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