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Article: "ROMEO AND JULIET'; LEAD DANCERS BRING WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE TO BALLET ROLES.(Weekend)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- February 10, 2005
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Byline: JOAN E. VADEBONCOEUR ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST
"Juliet" gave up her two-week vacation from the Broadway company of "The Phantom of the Opera."
"Romeo" gave up a role in a major revival of "Don Quixote" with the company of renowned former New York City Ballet principal Suzanne Farrell.
And so, Gianna Russillo and Momchill Mladenov have made sacrifices to perform those doomed lovers when Upstate NY Ballet teams again with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra this weekend in the dance version of Shakespeare's tragedy.
Russillo has been with "Phantom" for three years and has a run-of-the-show contract. "I am one of the ballerinas in the ...