Cinderella at Kennedy Center -- anyone gone to it?

[Anonymous]

I went today and there were several young kids in the audience. I think the stuff went over their heads but there is a moment of a simulated BJ, the one night stand as mentioned, some groping, a woman shooting a gun and killing someone, and well.....the blitz. Several times thebstage is made to look like it was bombed.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Our kids (4 and 6) made it through about half of it, which I consider a success. They should really have noted recommended ages on their website -- it's Cinderella, after all. The production was good, just was not really meant for small kids.

Well, I guess the $400 we spent on tickets went to supporting the arts...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Our kids (4 and 6) made it through about half of it, which I consider a success. They should really have noted recommended ages on their website -- it's Cinderella, after all. The production was good, just was not really meant for small kids.

Well, I guess the $400 we spent on tickets went to supporting the arts...[/quote]


I wouldn't call Matthew Bourne "the arts" . . more like camp. Don't you remember his Swan Lake? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuab3kK8cPU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Our kids (4 and 6) made it through about half of it, which I consider a success. They should really have noted recommended ages on their website -- it's Cinderella, after all. The production was good, just was not really meant for small kids.

Well, I guess the $400 we spent on tickets went to supporting the arts...

OP, we're pretty frequent ballet-goers. I love these dark versions of classics but totally agree that they should be clearly noted as not appropriate for young kids. I hope you will suggest to the KC that it put a single, simple "Recommended for ages X and up" line on the plot summaries or ticket sale web page for events they know may draw families with younger children (in other words--ballets or plays that are new takes on fairy or traditional tales). I checked their site and there's nothing like that there, to my surprise. I'm glad your kids saw half the show and hope they were engaged by it.

I note that the way one local theater (not dance but plays/musicals) does this is "if this were a film it would be rated R" etc. I saw that just today when buying tickets and thought it was useful.

If your kids like ballet -- Local ballet schools' shows are a better bet for taking very young kids to see story ballets.

[Anonymous]

It was so boring. I wanted to leave at intermission. No singing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was so boring. I wanted to leave at intermission. No singing.

Well, it is a ballet, after all, at which one does not typically find much in the way of singing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I literally just got this ad from the Kennedy Center promoting Cinderella, and this was one of the reviews they included:

Watching the felled victims dance back to life took my breath away, as did Cinderella’s tender one-night stand, justified by the world crashing down around the lovers’ ears.”
—The Washington Post


Cinderella has a ONE NIGHT STAND?

Also, don't forget the "felled victims" part. I assume battle scenes/guns?

Right - OP, don’t expose your babies to guns and violence!