Lot Essay
SWINE LAKE
ORIGINAL PRODUCTION
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, arranged by Derek Scott
(musical consultant: Larry Grossman)
Choreographer: Norman Maen
Company: ITC Henson Associates Inc.
Première: January 23, 1978, WCBS-TV, New York, Muppet Show, no. 37 (producer: Jim Henson; director: Philip Casson)
In addition to dancing a pas de deux with an oversized, near 6 ft. Miss Piggy, Nureyev also sang 'Baby, it's cold outside; (he outside and Miss Piggy in a steam room), and, à la Fred AStaire, sang and danced 'Top hat, white tie and tails'
We are grateful to Henson Associates Inc. for their help in cataloguing this lot and for allowing us to use the production photograph
ORIGINAL PRODUCTION
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, arranged by Derek Scott
(musical consultant: Larry Grossman)
Choreographer: Norman Maen
Company: ITC Henson Associates Inc.
Première: January 23, 1978, WCBS-TV, New York, Muppet Show, no. 37 (producer: Jim Henson; director: Philip Casson)
In addition to dancing a pas de deux with an oversized, near 6 ft. Miss Piggy, Nureyev also sang 'Baby, it's cold outside; (he outside and Miss Piggy in a steam room), and, à la Fred AStaire, sang and danced 'Top hat, white tie and tails'
We are grateful to Henson Associates Inc. for their help in cataloguing this lot and for allowing us to use the production photograph