Sugarland's "Love" — performed, oddly enough, on a stage full of illuminated umbrellas, with flashing lights suggesting rain overhead — had unmistakable echoes of U2.
Balanchine's "Nutcracker" -- first performed in February, oddly enough, in 1954 at City Center -- takes place in the reassuringly cozy middle-class home of the Stahlbaum family late in the 19th century.
This came back to mind in the low point of "La Magia" — the wedding pas de deux from "The Sleeping Beauty" — in which Sadaise Arencibia performed a version that made her look oddly like Ms. Alonso late in her performing career.
Oddly, Ms. Cacace said she gets the most onlookers while performing menial tasks like ironing.
Seymour: An Introduction, is an oddly titled documentary about an 88-year-old pianist, who gave up performing 37 years ago to become a teacher.
(212-239-6280) BIG AL -- With Al Pacino performing downtown (see "Arturo Ui," above), this new play by Bryan Goluboff about a screenwriter obsessed with him is oddly timely.
(The task, oddly, could have been performed by any one of the millions of North Koreans who had been forced to learn Japanese during the colonial era).
And Ms. Lang's oddly pretty new "Icarus," performed to music by Sofia Gubaidulina, is diluted by its use of four suns.
Oddly enough, I 'd just performed at the very same Metropolitan Room, including my unusual linguistic skill (talking backwards), with a bit on The Wizard of Oz in reverse.
Yet oddly, the Kirov Ballet itself had never performed the work in New York until Monday night.
This makes good psychological sense, but as another dancer (Elisha Willis) performs the final pas de deux, it feels oddly unconvincing.
