Metropolitan Ballet

HORRIBLE!!! In my opinion deceitful it’s not a professional play it’s students performing at professional prices my sister paid for 5 of us to attend… She purchased premium seats at 39.99 and the horrible started before the horrible play I prefer to say play instead of ballet read on you will see why I say that later in the review. We were reluctant when we heard it was in the high school but it was Romeo and Juliet. The metropolitan owner in his site boasts of the venue and orchestra the venue was okay and there was no orchestra. The seats my sister purchased were from living social and were originally 59.99 so wow where do I start. We get there and are told we had to sit on the side lol in 19 dollar seats after much angst needless to say they finally found us seats in the middle then as we are entering the woman at the door asks us all to take one program to share as the few in her hands were the only remaining programs. Then the play started immediately we were all looking back and forth at each other quizzical brows raised at the chaos and standing around on stage. They were children… His students??? Hmmm The girl playing Juliet seemed to be an adult and she danced well. A couple of older young men were okay dancers they were friends of the MUCH OLDER BALDING Romeo who in the few dancing scenes with Juliet trying to showcase his own talent by casting himself the lead role was clearly tired. A few older teenage girls danced Juliet’s friends but clearly not on her level of dance they were never in sync. again his students??? Most of the play was standing around and lots of walking it was painful to sit through a PLAY with no words and lacking ballet to convey the story. And the stomping was so loud it was funny like a comedy the scenes and props were atrocious ESPECIALLY the balcony on which Juliet is on her balcony you can see the wooden lift some shrubbery and ivy would cover that so don’t let the opulent picture of Romeo and Juliet in the website and it’s scenery take you in. In changing A scene after Romeo and Juliet were secretly betrothed the bedroom scene the lights are out and when they finally go up there is no Romeo only Juliet on the bed and then the lights go out again and you can hear Romeo and see him too sprint across the stage and jump in bed then the lights go up again. It was painful to watch someone 55 plus to play a teenager and one of the younger dancers who were his friends in the production couldn’t be directed to play Romeo? And if the majority of the cast are going to be students shouldn’t that be divulged? I support students efforts in the community and young artists but not at the prices of 60.00 and this to me was at best a high school play performed at a high school. I was disappointed our family girls night out gatherings are very important to us this was a waste of time and money during intermission we discussed this and wanted to leave the gentleman in front of us turned around and said he agreed with us several people around us during the play were laughing 100 minutes of this was just awful. I will never attend another of this companies productions. It was embarrassing!!!