Death In The Fifth Position (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
The box office reported that we had beaten all previous standing-room records for the Met and the audience was in a frantic mood, drowning out the music with almost continual applause for the stars who danced, I must say, with more skill than usual. If the audience was disappointed that the cable didn’t break in Eclipse, they didn’t show it for they called Jane back on stage seven times after the ballet. Swan Lake was magnificent in spite of several veterans who saw fit to heave a couple of firecrackers onto the stage … as well as a stink bomb which fortunately didn’t go off. Backstage, after the audience had left the theater, a great deal of vodka was stashed away by the Russian contingent … those members of the company born in Europe and their hangers-on … all singing and laughing and drinking vodka among the trunks and costumes. Eglanova was roaring drunk, weeping and laughing, her talk a mixture of Russian and English, all very confused. Jane and I left early. Mr.
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