Comments on: Love ain’t easy http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/04/09/love-aint-easy/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: jen http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/04/09/love-aint-easy/#comment-260235 jen Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:51:42 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/04/09/love-aint-easy/#comment-260235 Flappers not swans! Surely you jest. Flappers not swans! Surely you jest.

]]> By: jen http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/04/09/love-aint-easy/#comment-260232 jen Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:43:38 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/04/09/love-aint-easy/#comment-260232 .....funny you should mention it - , thrown back on my own resources while Ken is living it up at a university or two interstate, it is to the 'raucous pastoral' I have turned. Futz is a play about a man's love for a pig. As far as I can glean ( mostly from a marvelous chat with the lady at the box office) it is an Animal Farmish beastialised Babe. Looks like Ken will be picking the straw out of my hair upon his return. …..funny you should mention it – , thrown back on my own resources while Ken is living it up at a university or two interstate, it is to the ‘raucous pastoral’ I have turned. Futz is a play about a man’s love for a pig. As far as I can glean ( mostly from a marvelous chat with the lady at the box office) it is an Animal Farmish beastialised Babe. Looks like Ken will be picking the straw out of my hair upon his return.

]]> By: Nabakov http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/04/09/love-aint-easy/#comment-260039 Nabakov Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:14:13 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/04/09/love-aint-easy/#comment-260039 Now I think about it, perhaps Graeme Murphy could do a Sylvia. Keep some of Fred Ashton's best moves but transmute it to a Fred Williams/John Olsen kinda Australian landscape. With bonus wild pig shooting. It's basically a raucous sexy pastoral after all. Now I think about it, perhaps Graeme Murphy could do a Sylvia. Keep some of Fred Ashton’s best moves but transmute it to a Fred Williams/John Olsen kinda Australian landscape. With bonus wild pig shooting.

It’s basically a raucous sexy pastoral after all.

]]> By: Nabakov http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/04/09/love-aint-easy/#comment-260037 Nabakov Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:07:45 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/04/09/love-aint-easy/#comment-260037 Sounds like a pretty good version of the hoary old classic. It's a great story and a damn good ballet. But over the years the original IP been somewhat damaged by over familiarity with hit tunes overworked for ad soundtracks and ballet companies treating it as a talent showcase full of heavily framed set pieces first instead of as an organically flowing narrative. Sounds like Murphy took the latter approach. Although I note from the image you've provided that it appears the blokes get to look suave while the dames are still stuck with those sugar plum fairy costumes. There's no reason why a flapper dress can't be engineered to withstand contemporary terpsichorean rigours. Also, why the hell don't ballet companies just hire taller dancers instead of getting short ones to stand on tipptytoe all the time? *rimshot* Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Like the veal. PS: <a href="http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/5011" rel="nofollow">This</a> is one of the main reasons I really like a bit of hot ballet. Never mind the technique, feel the moves. And I met Darcy Bussell once (for about 30 seconds at some pissup at Somerset House) and she's even more gorgeous in real life, and with a definite twinkle in her <strike>thigh</strike> eye. Sounds like a pretty good version of the hoary old classic. It’s a great story and a damn good ballet. But over the years the original IP been somewhat damaged by over familiarity with hit tunes overworked for ad soundtracks and ballet companies treating it as a talent showcase full of heavily framed set pieces first instead of as an organically flowing narrative.

Sounds like Murphy took the latter approach. Although I note from the image you’ve provided that it appears the blokes get to look suave while the dames are still stuck with those sugar plum fairy costumes. There’s no reason why a flapper dress can’t be engineered to withstand contemporary terpsichorean rigours.

Also, why the hell don’t ballet companies just hire taller dancers instead of getting short ones to stand on tipptytoe all the time?
*rimshot*
Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week. Like the veal.

PS: This is one of the main reasons I really like a bit of hot ballet. Never mind the technique, feel the moves. And I met Darcy Bussell once (for about 30 seconds at some pissup at Somerset House) and she’s even more gorgeous in real life, and with a definite twinkle in her thigh eye.

]]> By: James Farrell http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/04/09/love-aint-easy/#comment-259836 James Farrell Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:50:29 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/04/09/love-aint-easy/#comment-259836 Yartz blogging straight from the heart -- the best kind! Don't apologise re. the second-hand aspect: just keep it up. Yartz blogging straight from the heart — the best kind! Don’t apologise re. the second-hand aspect: just keep it up.

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