City Ballet: Slaughter, For the Love of Duke and the West Side Suite
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Saturday night marked City Ballet’s Tribute to Broadway, with a program featuring Slaughter on Tenth Avenue , For the Love of Duke and the West Side Story Suite . ( It also marked Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins’s momentary return to the stage .) It was a gloriously fun night of dance (and a perfect introduction to ballet for the pointe-shy) that celebrated the wonderful theatrical possibilities of dance and the choreographic wonders that can be found on Broadway stages. We begin with Slaughter on Tenth Avenue , a Balanchine ballet. I had seen this before and knew it would be entertaining. Indeed, it was. Slaughter is ever so slightly tap heavy and so made me long for Anything Goes . (In fact, throughout the night, I would be longing for either great dance shows currently on the boards or just your traditional Broadway musical, replete with big dance breaks and a full orchestra backing them up.) According to the repertory notes, “the original Slaughter on Tenth Avenue