Attending the ballet has become something I get to do several times a year. It helps to be close friends with the wife of one of the dancers! Tonight's show consisted of two parts. One was called Firebird, and the other was Sleeping Beauty. Both were excellent. (The picture is just one I found online, no attachment to tonight's performance.)
What I really want to talk about, though, is manners. Mainly, I want to say that I think that most people are incredibly rude. While trying to enjoy watching my friends and acquaintances dance, I was being constantly distracted by people talking and pointing at the stage and someone messing around with a candy wrapper (one from a hard candy with that high-pitched crinkling sound). This went on through the entire second half. Were these people raised by wolves? No, had they been, they might have learned some stealth, by which I mean they would learn when it was ok to talk during a ballet---preferably never but I suppose during the applause would be less distracting. Or take my advice---If you feel that you cannot sit through a less than two hour live performance, please don't bother coming so that those of us who CAN sit through it might enjoy it without your annoying presence. And also, why are you wasting a seat at the ballet on a child who isn't even old enough to remember it?
Sigh.
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