Week of June 12, 2015

Newtown Bee staff photos taken for the June 12, 2015, print edition of The Newtown Bee.

Newtown Centre of Classical Ballet (NCCB) will present two performances of Sleeping Beauty onstage at Edmond Town Hall on Sunday, June 21. The special Father’s Day performances will be offered at noon and 3 pm. The special event will also include a flower sale, bake sale, and concession stand. Admission is free, but tickets are available for those who wish to guarantee seating. Seating for both performances will otherwise be first-come, first-served. Sleeping Beauty is “great for a ballet,” said Tory Gozzi, owner and artistic director of the South Main Street dance studio. She has read the story and introduces the main characters to her students and showed them how the story “adapted into the ballet, and it’s nice too, the way ballet is structured. “Other fairy tale characters attended Sleeping Beauty/Aurora’s wedding, like Little Red Riding Hood, Puss In Boots, and Cinderella,” she pointed out. The story will be slightly shortened to fit into a 90-minute staged performance. Tickets are available at the NCCB studio, at 87 South Main Street. Contact Ms Gozzi at 203-241-5362 or torygozzi@gmail.com, or visit nccballetandvoice.com for additional information. Among the fairy tale characters who attend Aurora/Sleeping Beauty’s wedding to the prince are, standing from left, Cinderella (played by Hannah Halloran), Princess Cormallen (Arline Almeter), The White Cat (Julia Finegan), Puss In Boots (Kylee Raiano), and, in a curtsy, Bluebird (Rebecca Spalvieri). (Bobowick photo)

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Newtown Centre of Classical Ballet (NCCB) will present two performances of Sleeping Beauty onstage at Edmond Town Hall on Sunday, June 21. The special Father’s Day performances will be offered at noon and 3 pm. The special event will also include a flower sale, bake sale, and concession stand. Admission is free, but tickets are available for those who wish to guarantee seating. Seating for both performances will otherwise be first-come, first-served. Sleeping Beauty is “great for a ballet,” said Tory Gozzi, owner and artistic director of the South Main Street dance studio. She has read the story and introduces the main characters to her students and showed them how the story “adapted into the ballet, and it’s nice too, the way ballet is structured. “Other fairy tale characters attended Sleeping Beauty/Aurora’s wedding, like Little Red Riding Hood, Puss In Boots, and Cinderella,” she pointed out. The story will be slightly shortened to fit into a 90-minute staged performance. Tickets are available at the NCCB studio, at 87 South Main Street. Contact Ms Gozzi at 203-241-5362 or torygozzi@gmail.com, or visit nccballetandvoice.com for additional information. Among the fairy tale characters who attend Aurora/Sleeping Beauty’s wedding to the prince are, standing from left, Cinderella (played by Hannah Halloran), Princess Cormallen (Arline Almeter), The White Cat (Julia Finegan), Puss In Boots (Kylee Raiano), and, in a curtsy, Bluebird (Rebecca Spalvieri). (Bobowick photo)

sleeping beauty dream characters Halloran Almeter Finegan Raiano Spalvieri