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"Let me just add my praise of the Sat matinee with Vishneva/Gomes. Stunning. I have the DVDs with Acosta/Rojo and Dowell/Penney, so I had a sense of what to expect in the theater, but I can't wait to see it again some day - if not ABT, perhaps another major company. (I see that Osipova/Acosta are doing two performances this fall with Royal, but I won't be able to get there. With luck, they'll show one of those in the movie theater and release it some day on DVD.) \nI saw the Kent/Bolle (Thursday) and Reyes/Jackson (Friday) before Saturday and I'm glad I did - they would have been more disappointing with the contrast. Reyes did a very credible job, but Jackson seemed wooden to me. I kept waiting -- in vain --  to see a spark between them. In the last act, when he should be overwhelmed with the developments, he just seemed to overdo everything - too extended, too strong. I noticed Gillian Murphy in the orchestra Friday, perhaps to lend support to Reyes? \nIt was fun meeting some Ballet Alerters at the intermission. "
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