Every ballet I’ve ever seen is populated with a majority of girly-girl characters. Check out the swans in Swan Lake and the dolls in the Nutcracker. Rare is the ballet with a majority of boy characters.
An exception to this is Science Boy’s ballet school’s spring production of Tom Sawyer, an original ballet choreographed by his teacher (a guy). And boy, is it ever loaded with boy parts. And I’m not talking “boy” in the gender sense. I’m talking, well, check this out: the two leads, Tom and Huck, are of course boys. But there are skeletons, stalactites and bugs. See what I mean? All that’s missing are pirates and Transformers. Not a fairy princess in sight.
It’s too bad SB isn’t in the production. He would have probably been cast one of the “schoolboys” with the other boys in his school. As it is, there are two girls in addition to the four boys playing “schoolboys,” but most of the stalactites et. al. are girls.
I haven’t seen it yet but I bet this will be a great ballet for the boys. Let’s hope the school stages the production again sometime in the future when SB is ready to perform.
