Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Opera House to catch the Boston Ballet premiere of Romeo & Juliet and boy, it was swell.
Preview:
Some other observations:
• Apparently all they did back in 1400 was dance. No working. No cooking. No nothing. Just dance.
• The production’s costumes were fabulous, the sets eye-catching, and the music (by Sergei Prokofiev) riveting.
• And the dancers were terrific. Misa Kuranaga’s Juliet and Nelson Madrigal’s Romeo performed beautifully together, and the rest of the cast was uniformly appealing.
• All told – no offense – a cut above the average Boston Ballet production.
Then again, I don’t know anything about ballet.
Campaign Outsider 
Of course the music was riveting: Prokofiev’s score for “R&J” is one of the glories of ballet, even all of Twentieth Century music. Thus, I am unhappy that it appears that his name appears in NONE of the promotional material for these performances. Shakespeare isn’t promoted very heavily either, but would have been if this were a theatrical troupe performing the play. If I go, it will be mainly to enjoy the music with the dancing a diversion (or as they say in the ballet trade: a divertissement).