# MilliCal went to the Ballet tonight

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**Created:** [April 10, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millical-went-to-the-ballet-tonight/577831 "2011-04-10T02:50:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millical-went-to-the-ballet-tonight/577831/1 "2011-04-10T02:50:47Z")

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A friend had an extra ticket, so she went to see Balanchine’s _A Midsummer night’s Dream_, with Mendelssohn’s music. There weren’t any spare tickets for her parents, so we’re home tonight.  
A Broadway plat two weeks ago, now this. She’s getting exposed to Culture.

When she was little, she put on a production of _a Midsummer Night’s Dream_ using her puppets and a stage she made out of a cardboard box. I photocopied my _Classics Illustrated_ comic version of it to give her a nicely abridged version, and as a guide to the action. But the whole thing was her idea.  
I’m curious to hear her reactions. I don’t know how she feels about ballet. I am, myself, handicapped in this regard. Other people are color-blind or tone-deaf. I am ballet-unappreciative. I could sit through unabridged Shakespeare or Wagnerian opera, but ballet leaves me cold.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millical-went-to-the-ballet-tonight/577831/2 "2011-04-10T03:05:04Z")

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MilliCal has returned, and pronounced the ballet

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She and her friend got to go onstage afterwards, the fruit of knowing someone involved in the show. She said that the plot came back to her from her long-ago puppet play, and she explained it to her friend.

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millical-went-to-the-ballet-tonight/577831/3 "2011-04-10T03:16:30Z")

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Well, that works, at least she didn’t outright hate it =)