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NJPAC architecture assimilates different styles. I had great seats on the EE row at Orchestra. The prices are very reasonable. Parking: either on the street or parking lot next door. The service by all the staff was truly-truly exceptional!! Always with a smile and they answered all questions.
I think this was an excellent and highly enjoyable performance. Dancing, music and stage set-up. All very well done. I also like NJPAC with restaurant, cafe, bars and shop.
very unhappy with lighting in theater. this is 2nd show i have seen at the PAC in a few weeks and they don't turn the lights off for the performances like they do on Broadway. You can actually read your program while the performance is taking place. the ballet reminded me of a dance recital. it was somewhat disjointed.
The show was great, the modern interpretation was really interesting and the performance was notable. The dancers were very good and seemed very dedicated to their part and the performance as a whole. There were no accidents or malfunctions, the show went smoothly. Great job Joffrey Ballet and Chicago Orchestra.
A beautiful re-telling of the classic. Set in burgeoning modernity the dances, costumes and sets renewed this story emphasizing the importance of the heart.
Great performance in an absolutely wonderful auditorium. Very nice acoustics and sight lines were perfect. Joffrey Ballet is first class. See this if you have any interest at all!
The dancing was beautiful and performed with precision. The choreography lacked in color and costumes. Men in ordinary pants, shirts and suits somehow didn't give the relish that a ballet of such romance should elicit. It severely lacked color and it resembled more of New York's culture and fashion or drab black, gray and white. If it had the color, show of the dancer's anatomy through clothes, and glory I would have given 5 stars. Italy was not what I could and romance was incomplete for this version of R&J.
Interpretation of classic was fair not expected. Balcony scene disappointing
While I enjoy most types of dance,and i have really enjoyed the joffrey in the past, I found this performance somewhat on the boring side. All the moves seemed to simply repeat all the prior moves.
I bought tickets to the Joffrey Ballet's modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet expecting to love the show. Instead, I was bored by intermission. The choreography became repetitive and was not extraordinarily enjoyable to watch. I enjoyed the first half simply because the dancers were good and had nice lines. By the second half, I was done. This style of ballet would have been better suited to a shorter piece and maybe more costumer changes. I honestly haven't recommended it to friends who asked me how it was.
I went to see the show as I found myself unexpectedly in Chicago for a last-minute work trip, and I'm so pleased that I had the opportunity to see it. I'm no expert on choreography, but it worked so well with Prokofiev's wonderful music. I felt that it tread a perfect line between modern and classical dance. Fabrice Calmels as the Capulet paterfamilias had vitality and stage presence like I have seen in no other dancer. The costumes and staging were beautiful too, and there was something nicely Sharks vs. Jets about it all. If have you have a chance to see this, absolutely go.
I took my mother to see this ballet on Mother's Day and I have to say, this was the most beautiful ballet I have ever seen. It captured me right away and took me off to a fantasy land where everything moves in beauty and light. I LOVED THIS BALLET and my mother talked about NOTHING else all the way home. I would definitely recommend this ballet to anyone that loves traditional ballet dancing but with a modern twist. The dancers were INCREDIBLE!!!!
wife was very happy to go and see one of her favorite ballet and we had a Romeo and Juliet ballet ourselves shortly after
The palpable intensity and finesse of the entire Opening night cast of Joffrey's Romeo and Juliet was total perfection from where I sat. Now I can't get that marvelous music out of my head. Didn't want the dancing/night to end. So, I returned for April Daly's Juliet the next Thursday which I thought was sensational. Pastor's choreography could not have been more perfect. April had danced Mother Capulate (Opening) so grandly and dominated when she was on stage, her characterization of the Mom was missed during the 2nd performance. Fabrice has stern and alpha mastered, totally captivating, masterful. Temur's Tybalt was so slick. Aaron Smyth's brazen, animated cocky Mercutio was excellent, fun.
performance was outstanding and the company right on- certainly a world class ballet company
The ballet "Romeo and Juliet" was danced to perfection. The lead dancers were magic! I enjoyed the music and the choreography very much. The costumes were a big let down, however. If you ignore the costumes and revel in the dance, all is well!
The Saturday May 4 matinee of "Romeo and Juliet" was well worth enduring the infuriating tangle on the Eisenhower. The opening sequence paid a kind of ironic homage to "West Side Story" with its double circles of restless young people, looking for trouble, evoking the "dance at the gym" in Bernstein's musical. Ms. Daly danced an evanescent Juliet, who, in her gray or mauve slip dresses, evoked a wisp of smoke more than a flesh-and-blood human being. Her Romeo was an eloquent dancer, tender and boyishly masculine. The most powerful scene for me was the one in which Fabrice Clamels, bringing his ferocious presence to the stage as the senior Capulet, pushes his daughter off on to Paris, and when she runs to her obdurate mother and begs not to marry, he recaptures her and flings her back to the Count. In Act Three, Romeo's dance with what he thought to be the dead body of Juliet was initially off-putting, but it became a gorgeous metaphor of grief. I'm not sure that the projections of 20th century Rome added what the artistic director had in mind. One shot, a Ben-Shahn-like receding street scene, empty and sterile, was effective, but the rest seemed like visual clutter. In this ballet, as in so many dramatic performances, Mercutio steals just about every scene he's in, and the audience made their enjoyment clear at the curtain calls. The score is complex and demanding, and the orchestra was at its best for this stunning performance.
Great ballet, beautifully done. Seats were not good at all though.
Absolutely the best ballet seen in a long time. The seats were fabulous! Thinking about a season subscription.
This was a well executed modern version ofa great classic tragedy. Juliet was one of the most fluid and graceful ballerinas I have ever seen. Beautiful!
