2 0 0 5

APRIL
01 | 02 | 03 | 04

MARCH
01 | 02 | 03 | 04

FEBRUARY
01 | 02 | 03 | 04

JANUARY
01 | 02 | 03 | 04

2 0 0 4

DECEMBER 05
DECEMBER 04
DECEMBER 03
DECEMBER 02
DECEMBER 01
NOVEMBER 04
NOVEMBER 03
NOVEMBER 02
NOVEMBER 01
OCTOBER 05
OCTOBER 04
OCTOBER 03
OCTOBER 02
OCTOBER 01
SEPTEMBER 04
SEPTEMBER 03
SEPTEMBER 02
SEPTEMBER 01
AUGUST 04
AUGUST 03
AUGUST 02
AUGUST 01
JULY 05
JULY 04
JULY 03
JULY 02
JULY 01
JUNE 04
JUNE 03
JUNE 02
JUNE 01
MAY 04
MAY 03
MAY 02
MAY 01
APRIL 05
APRIL 04
APRIL 03
APRIL 02
APRIL 01
MARCH 04
MARCH 03
MARCH 02
MARCH 01
FEBRUARY 04
FEBRUARY 03
FEBRUARY 02
FEBRUARY 01
JANUARY 05
JANUARY 04
JANUARY 03
JANUARY 02
JANUARY 01

2 0 0 3

DECEMBER 04
DECEMBER 03
DECEMBER 02
DECEMBER 01
NOVEMBER 04
NOVEMBER 03
NOVEMBER 02
NOVEMBER 01
OCTOBER 03
OCTOBER 02
OCTOBER 01
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST 02
AUGUST 01
JULY 02
JULY 01
JUNE 02
JUNE 01
MAY 02
MAY 01
APRIL 02
APRIL 01
MARCH
FEBRUARY
JANUARY

IN RETROSPECT

2 0 0 2

DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
JULY
JUNE
MAY
APRIL
MARCH
FEBRUARY
JANUARY

2 0 0 1

DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
JULY
JUNE
MAY
APRIL
MARCH
FEBRUARY
JANUARY

2 0 0 0

DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
JULY
JUNE
MAY
APRIL
MARCH
FEBRUARY
JANUARY

1 9 9 9

DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
JULY
JUNE
MAY
APRIL
MARCH
FEBRUARY
JANUARY

1 9 9 8

DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
JULY
JUNE
MAY
APRIL
MARCH
FEBRUARY
JANUARY

WEDDING

Baby elephant
At the Columbus Zoo.

At play.

APRIL, 2005

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Cleaned out the pond
Emptied the water out, removed the leaf debris, and wiped down the sides.

Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park
It took some doing to get to the pet walk, but it turned out well. It really did seem longer than the posted 1.6 miles by the end of it, though.

A P R I L 1 5 , 2 0 0 5

Anything Goes
Watterson spring musical, second cast

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Cinderella
BalletMet at the Ohio Theatre

BALLETMET'S RESTAGING OFFERS LITTLE EXCITEMENT, UNEVEN CHOREOGRAPHY | Barbara Zuck | Dispatch

Casts alternate throughout the weekend. Last night's leads, West and Suslov, make a handsome and appealing couple. Suslov steals the show with his high jumps, pure classicism, musicality and royal demeanor -- though Gibbs' many masculine balletic flourishes make a strong second.

The telling of the tale is straightforward and easy to follow though the stuff with the Stepsisters and Stepmother in Act 1 felt as if it went on too long. One puzzlement: After all the emphasis on the glass slipper and finding the right foot to fit into it, the Prince never actually kneels down and puts the shoe on Cinderella.

The use of children dancers (more Academy students) as the hour numbers of a clock to toll midnight remains one of the ballet's cleverest scenes.

Sets and costumes are attractive but -- save for a gorgeous coach with two white horses (dancers) -- notably unspectacular.

For budgetary reasons, BalletMet used taped music and not an orchestra this weekend. It's too bad from just about every perspective, though one sympathizes with the kind of tough decision-making many arts groups are facing right now.

The lack of live music made the assembled score of selections by Glazunov sound less urgent, less emotional, more detached -- again, generic. It certainly gave the event an aspect of unreality.

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Deadline day
And Amy had a musical performance

'Cinderella' to dance without orchestra
Tony Goins | Business First

"Seeing 'Cinderella' in the Ohio Theater with a tape recording is like going to a Buckeye game with a taped marching band," Douglas Fisher, president of the [Central Ohio Federation of Musicians], said in a press release Wednesday.

...

It would cost BalletMet about $52,873 to use a crew of 47 musicians for the run, [executive director Cheri] Mitchell said. It pays $18,500 for the show's 29 dancers.