As the boomers continue slouching toward Retirement and Beyond, it occurred to me that "Within You Without You" might only be the tip of the iceberg. Why stop at George Harrison? There are still many prominent rockers out there worthy of tributes from classical companies when they eventually buy the farm. For the benefit of enterprising artistic directors everywhere, may I suggest that Ballet Alerters begin the process by supplying them with a few prospective ballet titles, using song names or lyrics from the appropriate musician and the "[Title]: A Tribute to …..] format. I'm thinking along the following lines:

"Metal Machine Music: A Tribute to Lou Reed"
"'She's Under My Thumb'": A Tribute to Mick Jagger"
"Maybe I'm Amazed, Or Maybe I'm Not: A Tribute to Paul McCartney"
"He Was Only In It For the Money: A Tribute to Frank Zappa"

I'm sure you can do better than I can off the top of my head. Yes, I noodled with Paul's lyric just a bit. And Frank is already gone. Carry on.

These are too good, dirac. You're starting a trend, and three seasons from now when these start turning up all over the world, they'll trace the trail back here.

Every Step You Take, Every Move You Make: Sting, the Ballet

Dancing Queen: A Tribute to Abba :green:

We Don't Need No Education: RBS dances to Pink Floyd

Truckin': The Grateful Dead

People are Strange: A Tribute to the Lizard King, Jim Morrison



Sympathy for the Devil: A Tribute to Keith Richards
Oh wait he's not dead yet, he just LOOKS dead!

"Back in the USSR" Boris Eifman's tribute to the Beatles?

"Street Choir" a new Stroman ballet/singing tribute to Van the Man Morrison, rather than the too obvious "Moon Dance"? - oops, Van is not dead thankfully, he's in Ireland, I think.

(I like this as much as I like the "Which dead Russian composer are you?" thread.)

"Cool Cat, Looking for a Kitty:" A Tribute to the Lovin' Spoonful
"The Gypsy Eyes of the Voodoo Chile:" A Slight Return to Jimi Hendrix
"Discipline/Indiscipline:" A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson
"Look at Me, I'm Wonderful:" The Bonzo Dog Band Revue
"Major Tom and Ziggy:" Who's David Bowie This Time?

how about:

Flyin' High: A Tribute to Janis Joplin ?

On the Boards, a local contemporary performance venue, commissioned a work from several local choreographers last year to the music of David Bowie. While parts of it were interesting, it was, as a whole, just as chaotic as you are already imagining...

perky, they don't have to be dead already. We don't intend to put a hex on anyone, of course.

"I'm in You: Homage to Peter Frampton"

"MacArthur Park: a Tribute to Donna Summer" Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOO......

We've forgotten Frank Zappa, who created the first great American ballerina role-to-be in Suzie Creamcheese (the counter-culture answer to the Sugar Plum Fairy).

BW, yours (the Back in the U.S.S.R.) does sound awfully plausible.

"Smells Like Teen Spirit: A Tribute to Kurt Cobain"

"Man In The Box: An Alice In Chains Retrospective"

Both danced by the National Ballet of Anywhere.

Sexual Healing: ABT gets down with Marvin Gaye

perky, now that's scary - but awfully funny, too. :sweating:

Mother of Invention, Father of Dweezil, A Unit on the Moon - A Tribute to Frank Zappa?

Send the Pain Onstage: A Tribute to Chevelle

Artistic Director Lobotomy or He Oughta Be Sedated: A Celebration of the Ramones

Highway To Hell: Ballet According to AC/DC

I love the Ramones idea, Hans.

"He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss): an Evening with Phil Spector"

Sorry. Extremely poor taste.

BALL & CHAIN: The Janis Joplin Ballet

Roll Over, Beethoven: A Tribute to Chuck Berry. :dizzy:

There really is a ABBA ballet, "Abbalett", done by the Cullberg Ballet with Galina Palova, Niklas Ek, Madeleine Onne and others.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0214405/

The music of ABBA really sucks and making a ballet with their music was a bad idea

Ooh, I'd forgotten about this thread I'll only post two, I promise!

"Toxic: The Britney Spears Ballet" (And you thought those bikini-top tutus in Le Corsaire were revealing...)

This next one would really be a popera instead of ballet, but I couldn't resist:

La Bohèmian Rhapsody: The Metropolitan Opera sings Queen