On the 22nd, me, Sarah, Stevi and Sher went to see the Moscow Ballet performance of the Nutcracker. I found a good deal on tickets, but we all decided it would be worth it to spend more money on tickets and not sit in the "hillbilly" section! The actual ballet was amazing, but the overall experience was not quite as nice! The seats we had weren't too bad, but after all the lights went down and the show started (10 minutes late mind you) there was one light left on right in my peripheral. It must have been an emergency light because it stayed on through the entire show. It was really annoying! But more annoying than that were the people that kept streaming into the theater late. There were some on our row and several in the row in front of us. There were actually people that came an hour late! They got there 10 minutes before intermission. Why did the ushers even let them in??! I also thought it was very interesting and somewhat inappropriate that the theater was selling concessions. Some people that walked in late in the row in front of us all had giant tubs of popcorn and huge glasses of beer. I'm sorry, is this a ballet or a baseball game? To add the to baseball game feel, the man drinking the beer started whooping and hollering at the dancers when they would do something impressive. So, as you can tell, I was a little annoyed by the atmosphere and plan on writing the theater about some of my complaints. But, like I said, the ballet itself was beautiful. I will never tire of seeing the Nutcracker. Next year I will take Emma to the Ballet Arizona performance, just like my mom did when I was little.
Sarah and me
Sher and Stevi
1 comment:
that is SO nuts!! I can't believe they had consessions at a ballet! I would have been fuming!!
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