Ballet: All Balanchine I
Date:
September 16th (Tue), 7:30pm (opening night)
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Uniting three ballets NYCB Founder George Balanchine created across some 30 years, this program reveals the breadth of his classical mastery. In Donizetti Variations, he fashioned a series of brilliant, sprightly, and at times comic solos and ensemble dances to buoyant music from the opera composer. For Ballade, Balanchine utilized an impressionistic Gabriel Fauré score for piano and orchestra in a serenely tender work with delicately fragrant steps. And he took a unique approach to Swan Lake when he created a one-act version in 1951 that celebrated Lev Ivanov’s original choreography for the lakeside acts, rendering the essence of the mythical tale with lyrical beauty and dramatic concision.
Ballet: Eclectic NYCB I
Date:
September 25th (Thu), 7:30pm (opening night)
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Dances by four choreographers working in diverse and contrasting styles compose this program. Signs, created by Gianna Reisen for the School of American Ballet’s 2022 Workshop Performances, is infused with tenderness, emphasizing the intimacy, both friendly and romantic, between its couplings and among the ensemble as a whole. Peter Martins’ Zakouski, a lively ballet for just two dancers, is set to four short violin and piano pieces by a quartet of notable composers.
Broadway: Art
Date:
September 16th (Tue), 7:30pm (opening night)
runs through December 21st
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Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris return to the stage in the first Broadway revival of the Tony Award®-winning play ART by Yasmina Reza. Three longtime friends. One ridiculously expensive painting. Is it art, or is it just the world’s priciest inside joke? What begins as a polite debate over aesthetics and taste devolves into a clash of egos and resentments. Can their friendship survive, or will one of them finally draw the line? It’s just 100 minutes of minimalist art, maximalist laughs, and a moving look at what we really see and forgive in the people we love.
“A very funny comedy of manners. It’s an impeccably tailored piece of work.” –The New York Times
Broadway: Cabaret
Date:
runs now through October 19th, schedule
Venue:
Kit Kat Club at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway
Description:
Willkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome to the Kit Kat Club. Home to the smash-hit production of CABARET that Entertainment Weekly hails as “an unforgettable and jaw-dropping experience,” and New York Magazine declares “a glitzy, entertaining and ingenious revival that goes all out.”
Experience this groundbreaking musical like never before. The denizens of the Kit Kat Club have created a decadent sanctuary inside Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre, where artists and performers, misfits and outsiders rule the night. Step inside their world. This is Berlin. Relax. Loosen up. Be yourself.
Set in 1929–1930 Berlin during the twilight of the Jazz Age as the Nazis rise to power, the musical focuses on the hedonistic nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and revolves around American writer Clifford Bradshaw's relations with English cabaret performer Sally Bowles.
Opera: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Date:
September 21st (Sun), 6:30pm (opening night)
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In this exhilarating new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, set shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, two Jewish cousins invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch their own comic-book series, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism
Orchestra: NY Phil Opening Gala Concert
Date:
September 25th (Thu), 7:00pm
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Kick off the cultural season with a celebratory concert featuring the NY Phil, conducted by Anthony Parnther, and three-time Grammy winner and jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant.
Note: We aren't NYC-rich enough (YET) to attend the opening dinner with the performers, but the concert looks amazing and everyone should be dressed to the nines!