Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty

I actually saw this last Tuesday. I enjoyed it very much.

It wasn't exactly modern dance, but it also wasn't ballet. He used the Tchaikovsky score and based a few parts on the Petipa choreography, but Bourne's telling was more straightforward in many ways. Rather than have the last act be specialty dances by other fairy tale characters, it resolved the central story going right back to the original story -- with a little Disney thrown in.
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Once Upon a Time and Doctor Who

So, I hope everyone knows that some missing Doctor Who episodes were found in Nigeria last month.

And I assume everyone knows ( spoilers under the cut )