There were only three performances before they closed it down".
★ American Ballet Theater (Friday through July 6) If you haven't yet seen Frederick Ashton's "Sylvia," lose no time; there are just three performances before the company switches to "The Sleeping Beauty" for its final week at the Metropolitan Opera House.
The three performances before full houses at Bing Theater were the first West Coast performances of this, his second opera, composed in 1836.
Insurance may cover some losses, though many companies require a theater production to miss at least two performances before a policy takes effect.
On the bottom was the Kathleen Turner vehicle "High," which earned $106,023 for eight performances before closing on Sunday because of poor ticket sales.
There was nothing average, though, about the UK premiere of Brett Dean's Bliss, the belated highlight of this year's Edinburgh international festival, which arrived from Opera Australia just in time for two performances before tonight's grand spectacular fireworks finale.
Yet judging by the audience reaction at a Nov. 10 show at the McCarter Theater — one of only two performances before "Turnpike" hits the road in January, stopping in Georgia and Florida before returning to McCarter for shows May 30 and 31 — the risk of a performance being derailed by overly obscure gags is slight.
It is a significant commitment for the BBC, not just in terms of airtime but also logistics: for each opera and ballet the BBC records, they talk to the director, choreographer and designer, then rehearse one or two performances before recording a third.
In 1987, however, the ballet as it was first conceived and performed, with original set and costumes and Nijinsky's choreography (which had been seen for only seven performances before it was superseded by new choreography from Léonide Massine), was painstakingly reconstructed and re-created by the Joffrey Ballet.
MR: So, really, the fans of American Psycho are going to have to come to at least three or four performances before they get the real thing.
Starting Friday, for the final three performances this fall (before the opera returns in the spring), the fast-rising soprano Angela Meade takes over the title role.
