Sara Mearns will be Vicky Page in the upcoming Matthew Bourne production of The Red Shoes at City Center October 26th to November 5th.
Important note: Sara will share the role with Ashley Shaw of New Adventures and Cordelia Braithwaite. The big question is: how will we know the dates of Sara's performances? Answer: By this nifty little chart on the NY City Center website:
Tickets here.
Haglund - why is AM using his IG rather than the NYTimes to write reviews these days? He's waxed poetic about Skylar in Bayadere, and two different SAB Workshop Performances in the past week, but still nothing in the paper.
Posted by: Rachel Perez | June 09, 2017 at 03:30 PM
Good question. He's more and more like Trump and his Twitter feed. Penning just a few hyperbolic phrases that one can send to thousands with a simple click is so much easier than toiling over an entire review. And he doesn't have to submit his Twitter and I-G prose through editors - not that they ever helped much anyway.
Posted by: Haglund | June 09, 2017 at 03:41 PM
He gives me the creeps. I find his interactions with the dancers on social media to be unprofessional. In a recent post, he basically drooled all over Stearns' tights. It's beyond inappropriate.
Posted by: yukionna | June 09, 2017 at 05:05 PM
Haglund, do you recommend one or another of the three Vicky's?
Posted by: Angelica | June 09, 2017 at 05:13 PM
Yes, I recommend that we all get out there to see what Sara Mearns does with this opportunity. That's not to say that the other two Vickys won't be wonderful -- I don't know. I probably wouldn't bother to go see it if Sara wasn't in it or if another risk-eating ballerina whom I admire wasn't cast.
Posted by: Haglund | June 09, 2017 at 05:19 PM
Thanks!!! Those were my thoughts as well.
Posted by: Angelica | June 09, 2017 at 05:27 PM
I'm going to Sara's first night - 10/27. The tickets are going fast, everyone.
Posted by: Haglund | June 09, 2017 at 05:40 PM