Not So Entertaining These Days
- June
- 1
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As our daughter rose in the musical ranks, my husband and I attended every performance that we could. We rearranged work schedules to hear her play for two minutes. She would roll her eyes in humiliation as her parents sat beaming in the front row, trying desperately not to shout, “Encore, Encore” after her rousing [...]
A holiday tradition: Ballet’s backstage dance carefully choreographed
- December
- 14
Out front in the Capitol Theatre lobby, little girls in party dresses are holding their mothers’ hands, heading to their seats for the first Saturday matinee performance of Ballet West’s “Nutcracker” season, but backstage dancers and character performers are warming up.
Six large mouse heads are lined up on a table, backstage left, known to the [...]
