By peculiar chance, The Red Shoes had been musicalized into a Broadway show, the same winter the Red Shoes cd was released. My friend Wade was an assistant costumer on the show, and I saw quite a few incarnations of it during previews as a result. The ballet was so spectacular, for me it would have been enough to cover the price of admission. "These moments given are a gift from time." Because you will never have the opportunity to see that piece again, with those costumes, sets, or performers. She runs to the top of the building on the set and leaped with all that was within herself and blackout. Perfect theatrical combination of elements. You didn't need to see her jump conclude with a fall. You knew she did, and fell to her death. I remember 4 very specific things about that show; how fast she danced the adagio when asked to do it double time in "rehearsal", the beautiful blond hair Jonathan Sharp had, the ballet of the title, and the red robe that George de la Pena wore in Act 1. Funny, huh? But these are the things I took away, and Moments of Happiness are derived of these things. Fleeting pleasure sentimentalized and captured in our hearts' eye. Looped over when lost in thought, reminding us how time passes. Marching on. Paul Thek was right, the face of God is a clock. And time rolls on...
The Face of God, after Paul Thek
UPDATE: 10-24-2012 From a link posted by Scott Fowler, an original cast member. Footage from The Red Shoes:
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