Jeffrey Gantz reviewed The Royal Ballet and Manon for the June 22 Boston Phoenix:
"Speaking to the New Yorker in 1974, [Kenneth] MacMillan boasted, 'You have a sixteen-year-old heroine who is beautiful and absolutely amoral, and a hero who is corrupted by her and becomes a cheat, a liar, and a murderer. Not exactly our conventional ballet plot, is it?'"
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