I'm Old Fashioned (ballet)
I'm Old Fashioned (The Astaire Variations) is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Morton Gould's adaptation of a theme by Jerome Kern, “I'm Old Fashioned,” to a Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth sequence from the film You Were Never Lovelier. The premiere took place on Thursday, June 16, 1983, at New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. It was titled Variations on "I'm Old Fashioned" at its first performance, [Review 1] but the name was truncated to its current form the following week. [Review 2]
Casts
original
NYCB revivals
2007 Spring
2008 Spring – Jerome Robbins celebration
2010 Fall
Thursday, October 7, gala
Notes
- ^ first time in rôle
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