![]() Marzipan Men, peppermint-stripe Sugar Plum Men and Gingerbread Men wage light warfare and make peace with the Coffee Guards and Tea Flower Attendants. Princess Tea Flower (Stella Abrera) is their queen, chased by a lothario Prince Coffee (David Hallberg, in his first US performance following a two-year injury hiatus), suave Prince Cocoa (Joseph Gorak) and overeager Don Zucchero (Blaine Hoven). Sarah Lane and Daniil Simkin in Ratmansky’s Whipped Cream.Īfter hours, the spirits of the Konditorei come out to play. The Chef (Alexei Agoudine) can’t keep the whipped cream away from the whisk-licking Boy, who gets toted out on a stretcher. The Boy (Daniil Simkin) and his friends have just received their First Communion, and how better to celebrate than with unbridled gluttony at Vienna’s finest pastry shop. American Ballet Theatre gave his creation its world premiere on Wednesday, March 15, at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa California, and what the audience got was a wafer-thin story heaped with decorative icing. Ratmansky wished to re-create the 1924 two-act story ballet Schlagobers, using the original libretto and score by Richard Strauss. The Boy in Alexei Ratmansky’s Whipped Cream wishes for unlimited sweets overfulfillment sends him to the hospital with sugar hallucinations. ![]() ![]() (Click image for larger version)īe careful what you wish for. ![]() Alexei Agoudine, Duncan Lyle, Catherine Hurlin and Roman Zhurbin in Ratmansky’s Whipped Cream. ![]()
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