ABT Sets Casting for Orange County Season

American Ballet Theatre has announced casting for its March 6-18 engagement at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa.

The schedule:

--March 6, 8 p.m.:

--Ashton’s “Birthday Offering”: Company.

--Clark Tippet’s “Some Assembly Required”: Amanda McKerrow, John Gardner.

--Tudor’s “Jardin aux Lilas”: Leslie Browne, Susan Jaffe, Ricardo Bustamante, Michael Owen.

--Tharp’s “Push Comes to Shove”: Danilo Radojevic, Jaffe, McKerrow, Deirdre Carberry, Bustamante.

--March 7, 8 p.m.:

--”Birthday Offering”: Company.

--”Jardin aux Lilas”: Browne, Jaffe, Bustamante, Ross Stretton.

--John Taras’ “Soiree Musicale”: Cynthia Harvey, Wes Chapman.

--De Mille’s “Rodeo”: Kathleen Moore, Gardner, Victor Barbee, Amy Rose.

--March 8, 8 p.m.:

--”Kingdom of the Shades” (Act Two of “La Bayadere”): Jaffe, Bustamante.

--Tharp’s “Brief Fling”: Cheryl Yeager, Julio Bocca.

--”Rodeo”: Shawn Black, Kevin McKenzie, Ethan Brown, Julie Kent.

--March 9, 8 p.m.: MacMillan’s “Romeo and Juliet”: Alessandra Ferri (Juliet), Bocca (Romeo), Radojevic (Mercutio).

--March 10, 2 p.m.: “Romeo and Juliet”: Browne, Bustamante, Johan Renvall.

--March 10, 8 p.m.: “Romeo and Juliet”: McKerrow, McKenzie, Gardner.

--March 11, 2 p.m.: “Romeo and Juliet”: Ferri, Bocca, Radojevic.

--March 11, 8 p.m.: “Romeo and Juliet”: Browne, Bustamante, Renvall.

--March 13, 8 p.m.: “Romeo and Juliet”: same as on March 10, 8 p.m.

--March 14, 8 p.m.: “Romeo and Juliet”: Harvey, Chapman, Gil Boggs.

--March 15, 8 p.m.: “Romeo and Juliet”: Marianna Tcherkassky, Gardner, Boggs.

--March 16, 8 p.m.:

--Balanchine’s “Theme and Variations”: Yeager, Bocca.

--”Some Assembly Required”: Ferri, Brown.

--Tudor’s “Dark Elegies”: Martine van Hamel, Browne, Owen, Renvall.

--Tharp’s “In the Upper Room”: Company.

--March 17, 2 p.m.:

--”Kingdom of the Shades”: Tcherkassky, Radojevic.

--De Mille’s “The Informer”: Rose, Brown, Gardner.

--”In the Upper Room”: Company.

--March 17, 8 p.m.:

--”Birthday Offering”: Company.

--”Brief Fling”: Yeager, Bocca.

--”Theme and Variations”: McKerrow, Guillaume Graffin.

--March 18, 2 p.m.:

--”Kingdom of the Shades”: Van Hamel, McKenzie.

--”Dark Elegies”: Cynthia Anderson, Browne, Owen, Gardner.

--”Theme and Variations”: Jaffe, Jeremy Collins.

--March 18, 8 p.m.:

--”Kingdom of the Shades”: Harvey, Bocca.

--”The Informer”: Moore, Barbee, Renvall.

--”Push Comes to Shove”: Boggs, McKerrow, Carberry, Browne and Collins.

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