Paul McCartney's ballet Ocean's Kingdom: that sinking feeling

The ex-Beatle wrote the score for Ocean's Kingdom and his daughter Stella made the costumes – what could possibly go wrong? A damp squib of a story, that's whatWell, the critical verdicts are in for Sir Paul McCartney's new ballet, Ocean's Kingdom (estimated cost $800,000) and the news isn't great. "New York City Ballet's McCartney project has slipped down the drain," writes Robert Grescovic in The Wall Street Journal, while The New York Observer's Robert Gottlieb castigates a "wildly hyped an...

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