I don’t think this episode is looked at as a classic, I think it should be. Watching Lucy Ballet dance is so great. It’s actually how I feel when I do Ballet. I’m a very good dancer, but for some reason, Ballet was never my thing. It was too slow and too technical. I took a class at my gym called “Anti-Gravity Yoga”, it was a yoga class, duh, where you were suspended from the ceiling by a piece of fabric, think hammock smashed together. It looked like something I could do and would enjoy, I was such a buffoon! At the end when you are suppose to be relaxing in “tadasana” I took up the whole time just trying to lay flat. All I could think of was “The Ballet”
Lucy is trying to get in to Ricky’s show again. He needs a Ballerina and burlesque comic. Lucy goes to the ballet rehearsal trying to pass off as a trained ballerina. The “Madame” quickly realizes she hasn’t had as much experience as she claims to have. A bit sore, Lucy tries the burlesque comic bit, “slowly I turned”. She finds the other comedian that’s doing the show to teach her the bit. She realizes yet again she’s not really cut out for comedy. The night Ricky’s show opens, one of the ballet dancers gets sick and can’t do the show, Ethel, who is at the show, calls Lucy and tells her to come down. Lucy misunderstands and think Ethel’s talking about “slowly I turn” Lucy ends up doing the ballet number adding her own little twist with “slowly I turned”
There was an “I Love Lucy” Movie in the works that was never released. They were cropped episodes of “The Benefit”, “The Ballet”, and “Breaking the Lease”. I would love to see that, maybe one day the will release it. Enjoy, Lucy’s version of Ballet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OxjM6-dufw
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