I'm Old Fashioned (ballet)

I'm Old Fashioned (The Astaire Variations) is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Morton Gould's adaptation of a theme by Jerome Kern, “I'm Old Fashioned,” to a Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth sequence from the film You Were Never Lovelier. The premiere took place on Thursday, June 16, 1983, at New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. It was titled Variations on "I'm Old Fashioned" at its first performance, [Review 1] but the name was truncated to its current form the following week. [Review 2]

Casts

original

NYCB revivals

2007 Spring

2008 SpringJerome Robbins celebration

2010 Fall

Thursday, October 7, gala

Notes

  1. first time in rôle

Reviews

  1. NY Times by Anna Kisselgoff, June 18, 1983
  2. NY Times by Anna Kisselgoff, June 28, 1983

References

  • Repertory Week, NYCB, Spring season, 2008 repertory, week 5

Articles

External links

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