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Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 2:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    
Has anyone been watching this? It's on Ovation. Tonight is the Berlin State Ballet. (rerun) Tomorrow is the Bolshoi.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 6:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Huh. I never heard of this, I would totally watch but I don't get Ovation.

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 8:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
I've not watched so far this year but I remember it from last year. Viewers were supposed to vote for their favorite performance after watching each company and then the winner was aired again on Christmas. Isn't it something how the same story can be staged and interpreted so differently? Although it wasn't surprising that in the end, viewers went for one of the more traditional versions.

Going to see this ballet was one of my fondest family Christmas traditions when I was younger. (And seeing it live is so different from just watching it on tv.) Until our local company partnered with a city in another state which then failed to to pay their share of expenses. After a number of years the financial toll from that plus some other issues wrecked the company and it folded. And guess what, the people in the other city swooped in and bought it out. After crying for years they couldn't pay. The local press did exposes on the story and there really was dirty dealing going on there. I'm still bitter about it. If I ever write a disaster story - rather doubtful as I don't really care for the genre - that city and the one that stole our football team are going to go down in it, you can bet on that. Not very Christmas spirit of me, I know, lol.

A few years ago I made a mini replica of one of the programs to hang as an ornament on the tree. It brings back wonderful memories.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 9:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Calamity - what a great idea for your memories!!

I had to open this thread just based on the title!!

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 12:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
Lol, it is quite a title, isn't it, Reader?

Thanks for the nice words about the program ornament. It really did come out cool, I copied the front & back covers and the story synopsis on photo paper. I did the same thing with favorite Christmas album covers - made mini copies of them and used satin ribbon to put them on the tree. This year I'm taking pictures of scenes from favorite Christmas movies & specials & putting them on little tv sets. (I do have a crèche too - I'm not just secular, lol.) I want to do a little tree of small black & white photos of winter scenes too.