Brace yourselves, bunheads: Season 2 of “Breaking Pointe” premieres one week from today. ONE WEEK! Let the countdown begin! Actually, you don’t even have to wait those seven long days for your next peek at the Ballet West reality series, because it turns out “Entertainment Tonight” got their hands on some footage from the second […]
Judging by their Twitter feeds (@LauraOsnes and @SantinoFontana), you’d never guess that Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana play the starry-eyed fairytale lovers of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella. In fact—with tweets like Santino’s “remember when you had chocolate on your teeth the entire 2nd act?”—you might think their characters were a bickering brother-and-sister pair! But these […]
I couldn’t have been more excited when I learned Cinderella was coming to Broadway. It’s one of my favorite fairytales and just the thought of seeing Ella’s gorgeous, sparkly ball gown in person made me giddy with anticipation. Lucky for me, DS managing editor Rachel Zar shares my enthusiasm. So we headed to the Broadway […]
Laura Osnes as Cinderella with Victoria Clark as her Fairy Godmother, performing at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC (Jenny Anderson/Broadway.com) Laura Osnes’ Broadway career got off to an unusual start. Instead of going through the standard cattle-call audition process, she took part in the nationally televised reality competition “Grease: You’re the One that […]
Oh, the power of stories. Much as I love abstract dance, few things move me the way a good story ballet does. And it seems like I’m in the majority: Story ballets are the bread-and-butter of nearly every ballet company’s repertory. If you want to see a packed house for a ballet performance, go see […]