Photo Flash: Matthew Bourne's SLEEPING BEAUTY Opens at Ahmanson Theatre
Tony Award-winning choreographer/director Matthew Bourne, along with his company New Adventures, returns to the Ahmanson Theatre with a timeless tale for all ages, "Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty," A Gothic Romance. Presented by Center Theatre Group and Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center, "Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty" opened last night, November 21, 2013, and will run for two weeks only through December 1. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from opening night below!
In "Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty," the traditional tale of good vs. evil, and of rebirth, is turned upside-down, creating a supernatural love story across the decades. Perrault's fairy tale about a young girl cursed to sleep for 100 years was turned into a legendary ballet by Tchaikovsky and choreographer Marius Petipa in 1890. Bourne takes this date as his starting point, setting the christening of Aurora, the story's heroine, in the year of the ballet's first performance at the height of the fin de siècle period when fairies, vampires and decadent opulence fed the gothic imagination. Aurora grows into a young woman in the more rigid, uptight Edwardian era, a mythicAl Golden age of long summer afternoons, croquet on the lawn and new dance crazes. Years later, awakening from her century long slumber, Aurora finds herself in the modern day, a world more mysterious and wonderful than any fairy story.
Photo Credit: Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging
Jane Kaczmarek and Mary Kaczmarek
Jane Kaczmarek and Mary Kaczmarek
Jane Kaczmarek and Mary Kaczmarek
Director/Choreographer Matthew Bourne
Director/Choreographer Matthew Bourne
Director/Choreographer Matthew Bourne and actress Debbie Allen
Renae Williams Niles, Music Center, and CTG Producing Director Douglas C. Baker
Richard Sherman and Director/Choreographer Matthew Bourne
Artistic Director Gordon Davidson and Director/Choreographer Matthew Bourne
Artistic Director Gordon Davidson and Director/Choreographer Matthew Bourne
Hannah Vassallo and Glorya Kaufman
Christopher Marney and Hannah Vassallo
Adam Maskell and Christopher Marney
Dominic North and Hannah Vassallo
CTG Artistic Director Michael Ritchie and cast members Dominic North and Hannah Vassallo
Christopher Marney, Jodie Gats, Vice Dean, USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, Glorya Kaufman and cast member Hannah Vassallo
Hannah Vassallo, Glorya Kaufman, Renae Williams Niles, Music Center, and CTG Producing Director Douglas C. Baker
Hannah Vassallo, Glorya Kaufman and Renae Williams Niles
Director/Choreographer Matthew Bourne and cast members Dominic North and Hannah Vassallo
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