Piano Dress

So we have had a long day and I am not writing too much this evening - but there are a few photos on the picture site.  There will be more in the next 24 hours if I can get to them.  The production is ravishing as you may discern from these quick and dirty photos.  No time tonight to polish them up!

We have an exceptional chorus and nine great dancers - and just three principal singers.  So this is a fine company effort - and John Adams was providing the extra inspiration today.  Tomorrow we are with orchestra for another six hours.  This work needs the stamina of these youthful people to get it on at all.  Above you have Natasha Jouhl in the title role, and left her Prince Noah Stewart and our Narrator/Storyteller Sanford Sylvan - the only veteran on the stage.   And veteran indeed - he was the first Chou en Lai in Nixon in China in 1987. 

So that's all for tonight.