Angelina Ballerina’s Big Audition
Angelina Ballerina’s Big Audition brings the storybook character back to the stage once more in this new production from English National Ballet, aimed at three to eight year-olds with a passion for dance.
Here we follow the mouse as she prepares for an audition at the prestigious Camembert Academy, meeting old and new friends along the way.
The first act is very much storybook style, easy to follow and with mainly traditional ballet. The highlight is dancer James Henson with his lively characterization of Henry.
Act II is very different - not only much longer, but much more colourful in its variety of dance and particularly ensemble pieces.
Outstanding is the suitcase dance and the scene when Angelina and her six counterparts audition. Stealing the show is Monika Lepisto as Angelina with her Sugar Plum Fairy dance and James Henson as AJ with his brilliant and invigorating hip hop moves.
Antony Dowson has wonderfully choreographed the ballet with a delightful simplicity. The orchestration of both music by Tchaikovsky and original material by Gavin Sutherland brings an engaging lightness to the ballet.
Wizzy Shawyer has created colourful costumes and mouse heads which makes the characters easy to identify, while allowing freedom of movement for the dancers.
Artistic director Wayne Eagling has yet another huge success on his hands, which is like to be a hit a young audiences the length and breadth of the UK and beyond.
Production information
- By:
- based on the original stories and illustrations by Helen Craig and Katharine Holabird, with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchakovsky, arranged and orchestrated by Gavin Sutherland
- Management:
- English National Ballet and HIT Entertainment
- Choreography:
- Antony Dawson
- Run time:
- 1 hour 15 minutes including 20 minute interval
- Website:
- www.angelinaballerina.com
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Run sheet
- Royal and Derngate, Royal Northampton
- May 21-24 2009
- Auditorium Grimsby
- May 27 2009
- Theatre Royal Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- May 30-31 2009
- De Montfort Hall Leicester
- June 3 2009
- New Wimbledon London
- June 5- 6 2009
- Hawth Crawley
- June 9-10 2009
- Assembly Hall Tunbridge Wells
- June 13-14 2009
- Opera House Buxton
- June 16 2009
- Wyvern Swindon
- June 19-21 2009
- Princess Torquay
- June 30-July 1 2009
- Queen's Barnstaple
- July 3- 4 2009
- Futurist Scarborough
- July 8- 9 2009
- Civic Darlington
- July 11-12 2009
- Sands Centre Carlisle
- July 15-16 2009
- New Alexandra Birmingham
- July 18-19 2009
- New Victoria Woking
- July 30-August 1 2009
- Theatre Royal Winchester
- August 4- 5 2009
- Corn Exchange Cambridge
- August 7- 8 2009
- Theatre Royal Glasgow
- August 11-12 2009
- Holland Park London
- August 22-30 2009
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