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$1,400 for tickets to see ‘The Nutcracker’? I’m fine with skipping this holiday ritual.
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| 12/22/23
| Charles Passy
Posted on 12/22/2023 8:25:40 PM PST by DallasBiff
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Memories, got dragged there by my parents, my dad wasn't happy about it either, any way slept through the whole show, even during "the Dance Sugar Plum Fairies".
To: DallasBiff
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posted on
12/22/2023 8:32:39 PM PST
by
Hebrews 11:6
(“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn.” John 21:11)
To: DallasBiff
Surely those girls would be just as pretty/graceful without destroying their toes . . .
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posted on
12/22/2023 8:37:11 PM PST
by
tomkat
To: tomkat
That is, assuming they are even girls to begin with and not men pretending to be girls.
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posted on
12/22/2023 8:45:22 PM PST
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: DallasBiff
Take a picture, make a video; it will last a lot longer and not cost nearly as much. You'll thank me for that later. Don't mess around, go to the ones who are really really serious about ballet and the Nutcracker!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_Z1LUDQuQ
Besides, this way you can sit in your underwear, drink bear and scratch while you watch.
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posted on
12/22/2023 8:54:12 PM PST
by
Sequoyah101
(Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
To: Sequoyah101
Besides, this way you can sit in your underwear, drink bear and scratch while you watch I maybe all the above in your mind, but at least I can post a workable link, by the way in the english spelling, it is spelled "beer".
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posted on
12/22/2023 9:06:13 PM PST
by
DallasBiff
(Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
To: DallasBiff
my, aren't we touchy?
Have a merry christmas.
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posted on
12/22/2023 9:18:26 PM PST
by
Sequoyah101
(Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
To: DallasBiff
The music is great; the story never was that appealing to me. The Fantasia version was fun to watch, though.
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posted on
12/22/2023 9:22:20 PM PST
by
skr
(Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
To: DallasBiff
Took the family to see it. Yes, we were dressed in our finest.
A lovely meal beforehand was icing on the cake.
But $1,400?
More like $600.
My kids were older (teens) when we saw it and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it.
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posted on
12/22/2023 9:23:36 PM PST
by
TheWriterTX
(🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
To: Sequoyah101
Have a merry christmas. Well I'll be scratching my crotch and drinking my "bear".
Merry Chirstmas to you also, God bless.
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posted on
12/22/2023 9:25:34 PM PST
by
DallasBiff
(Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
To: DallasBiff
It’s not too hard to local productions by smaller ballet companies or smaller ballet schools.
Those are the best.
To: 13foxtrot
It’s not too hard to [find] local productions by smaller ballet companies or smaller ballet schools.
Those are the best.
To: DallasBiff
Lovely stuff - watch it and enjoy the music and the skill it takes to move like that. Ballet is the art of forcing the human body into grotesque positions it has no business in. (Yeah, I used to date a dancer.) This show, done right, is a dance with the audience in it.
I wouldn't recommend delving too deeply into the plot. It's a little unsettling. Just my opinion. Merry Christmas, all!
To: Billthedrill
Call me neandtheral but I will never get ballet.
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posted on
12/22/2023 10:02:39 PM PST
by
DallasBiff
(Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
To: skr; DallasBiff
The Fantasia version was fun to watch, though.FYI "Fantasia" was the first time Nutcracker music was heard in the US, and it wasn't until after WWII that the first performance was given in Frisco, then in NYC a few years later. It's amazing how ubiquitous Nutcracker has become in just one lifetime.
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posted on
12/22/2023 10:02:49 PM PST
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: DallasBiff
$1400?!! Is this “The Nutcracker” starring Taylor Swift?
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posted on
12/23/2023 12:34:48 AM PST
by
I-ambush
(From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
To: DallasBiff
You couldn’t pay me triple that to go...
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posted on
12/23/2023 3:54:29 AM PST
by
maddog55
(The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
To: DallasBiff
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posted on
12/23/2023 4:07:03 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Never give up; never surrender!)
To: DallasBiff
I had no idea it was that expensive - since I’ve never been and don’t like those kinds of shows. I assumed it was more like $15. LOL.
I like movies where the job of the actor is to make you forget he is acting. In my opinion, a good actor is one that can act so down-to-earth you can imagine he’s a normal person and forget you’re watching a movie. In real life conversations, people don’t make extravagant gestures and poses, or break into song.
The trouble with broadway shows, operas or ballets is that it’s the opposite - they all seem so self-important and self-absorbed - Look at me! Look at me! I’m a star!
If a movie actor behaved that way he would be considered to be “over-acting” - like Al Pacino.
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posted on
12/23/2023 4:57:14 AM PST
by
enumerated
(81 million votes my ass)
To: DallasBiff
“Let’s also not forget some of the problematic elements in “The Nutcracker” in terms of how it can propagate stereotypes.”
Stereotypes are not derived from nothing. I laugh when liberals refer to some innocuous behavior as “problematic”. Even if it is behavior exhibited by 95% of the group, they will argue that “not ALL ____s are that way.”
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posted on
12/23/2023 6:04:17 AM PST
by
bk1000
(Banned from Breitbart)
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