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...Firebird has arrived to save you not only from this storybook realm but also from the grim grind of Harvard midterms. Boston Ballet's season opener, Firebird and The Princess and the Pea, which premiered last Thursday to a well-deserved standing ovation, runs through Sunday...
...Anything you see by Boston Ballet, one of America's top five dance companies, will be good. Their dancers are the creme of the crop, reason alone to see this show. But this show has even more going for it. Firebird's award-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, a current soloist with New York City Ballet, is one of the most innovative and heralded of new choreographers, having inspired big articles in Time and Dance Magazine. Daring to re-choreograph an already well-loved ballet, in Firebird he creates a new masterpiece from an old one, his choreography departing from...
...brooding Russian fairy-tale. The despicable monster Kastchei has created a colorless, depressing realm where he keeps princesses and others captive. After mistakenly wandering nearby, Prince Ivan falls in love with one of the princesses and resolves to save them, eventually doing so with the help of the magical Firebird...
...Boston Ballet, however, Firebird becomes much more than a story-ballet. It is the combination of an award-winning, inventive choreographer and fantastic dancers, who, having mastered the athleticism of ballet, are accomplished artists capable of expressing the human emotion and sensitivity behind Wheeldon's choreography, able to relate to the audience and imbue the piece with relevance...
...daughter's sexpot best friend Angela. Burning her way into his mind in a blizzard of rose petals, Angela reignites his sex drive, and soon he's claiming to be a new man: weightlifting, quitting work, bitching out his "joyless" wife for her materialism, and getting the 1970 Pontiac Firebird he always wanted. Because Spacey is such a delight to watch, digging into the material with wit, joy, and not a little smugness, it's easy to miss how cliched Lester's rebellion is. But his wicked renovations are little more than the contents of a stodgy suburban milestone...