"They come in & hear Mary Lou Williams sing "The Ballet-Box Boogie in the Key of Franklin D," & go home singing it.
The beauty of Ms. Mitchell's singing brings the ballet to an extraordinary climax; and Mr. Neenan's choreography matches it, as Ms. Shumake becomes expansive.
She explained that while she was painting her illustrations, she found herself singing the words and dreaming of a Strunk and White opera, or even a ballet.
I would also sing and dance ballet and would take two pieces of wood and pretend to play the violin.
"She's not a career girl but she's studying singing and ballet at Carnegie Hall and painting at the museum," Mr. Yazbeck reads, with a bloom of wonder in his voice.
Today, Tymia is an ambassador for the American Red Cross, leader on the police community board, involved with the elderly in her community, enjoys pageantry, modeling, singing and ballet.
Dancing an opera and singing a ballet can be equally daunting.
But behind closed doors, these women act very much like Ms. Hayeri's Canadian friends — dating, singing, studying ballet and even swimming.
"My friends and I began to paint and dance and sing, to create ballets, operas and plays," he later wrote.
Yet the ballet doesn't sing to us, move us, and for this absence of lyrical force you must look to the music.
"The Seven Deadly Sins," a sung ballet in seven scenes, was composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht in 1933 and was first performed in Paris and produced, directed and choreographed by George Balanchine.
