| It was twelve-and-a-half minutes | |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 02:41 pm EDT 05/04/18 | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 02:40 pm EDT 05/04/18 | |
| In reply to: The 'ballet' in Act 2 of CAROUSEL - NewtonUK 02:27 pm EDT 05/04/18 | |
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| It was not 40 minutes. It was 12 1/2 minutes, as can be seen at the youtube link I posted yesterday. When you say "contemporaneous reports," do you mean reports actually written during the run of the original production? If so, can you direct me to these reports? Unfortunately, de Mille later wrote some nonsense about the length of the Carousel ballet — stuff that anyone with half a brain would know was nonsense — which at least one of her biographers repeated, and this nonsense shows up all over the place online. Isherwood repeated it in his online review. I wrote a comment about it in response. The 40-minute statement is still there in his review, but at least there's my comment below the review so that people who bother to read it will know that Isherwood is wrong. What is true is that at the first out-of-town performances, the ballet was significantly longer than what was seen on Broadway, perhaps around 25 minutes, although I'm a bit doubtful it was quite that long even then. So far I have not been able to find a statement about how long it was at the New Haven opening from a trustworthy source (and I have looked). |
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