Continued….

IUBT performs “The Sleeping Beauty” Act I

It is Princess Aurora’s sixteenth birthday. Celebrations are already underway: the atmosphere is festive, made complete with a waltz danced by the villagers with garlands.  Aurora receives her four royal suitors and their gifts of exquisite roses. Soon after, Aurora is presented with a spindle as a gift from a disguised Carabosse—an object which she has never before seen. Carelessly, she dances with it despite her mother and father’s warnings before accidentally pricking herself. She faints. To the horror of all, Carabosse immediately reveals her true wicked self triumphantly, vanishing before the princes can vanquish her. At that very moment, the Lilac Fairy appears as she had promised. She reminds the remaining guests and the King and Queen of her gift—Aurora will not die, but merely sleep. She then casts a spell of slumber upon the entire kingdom so that they will only awake when Aurora does.

Princess Aurora

Aurora’s 16th birthday celebration

One of the royal suitors

Aurora and her royal suitors

Lucky girl! Here’s another handsome bloke.

more fairies? not sure who they are.

Carabosse in disguise.

Aurora pricks her finger on the spindle and falls into a deep sleep.

Aurora sleeps for 100 years.

The Lilac Fairy puts the kingdom to sleep.

Next – Act II – stay tuned!