Another Christmas tradition of ours seems to be to see a Matthew Bourne production. This year it was Sleeping Beauty. I think this has been my favourite of his so far, the plot is not as weird as Swan Lake or the Nutcracker, and perhaps I like the music more. The set design is amazing, as are the costumes. It really was something else.
The only disappointment, and it was fairly major, is that they don't use a live orchestra! That was super disappointing, half a ballet is the music! When you have an orchestra there is always this slight background noise, as they get their instruments ready and tune up, but for this show you walk in and it's quiet. We were actually sitting so close to the stage, that it's normally where the orchestra would have been. I would have been happy to be further back and have the orchestra.
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