Performance
Tulsa Ballet: “Alice in Wonderland” by Kenneth Tindall
Place
Tulsa Performing Arts Center, Tulsa, OK, February 28, 2025
Words
Steve Sucato

With each dance season’s new ballets, some become memorable with audiences and critics for their artistry and emotional connection, fewer reveal themselves as hits, and even fewer have the potential to become box office record breakers. Tulsa Ballet’s new “Alice in Wonderland” is the rare gem that does all three.  

A production for twenty-first-century dancegoers accustomed to technological wizardry, “Alice” was a multimedia spectacle of Broadway-level animations and projections, well-paced storytelling, vibrant music, illustrative choreography and voiceovers, and adroit dancing. The world premiere, performed to a packed Tulsa Performing Arts Center on Friday, February 28, 2025, was a triumph.

The two-act, two-hour, family-friendly ballet inspired by Lewis Carroll’s novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” was choreographed by Kenneth Tindall and danced to original music by composer Alexandra Harwood (BBC TV’s All Creatures Great and Small) played live and with heart by the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra. It featured set and costume design by Two-time Tony Award-winning costume and set designer Christopher Oram (Disney’s Broadway show Frozen). Oram masterfully created the detailed and colorful costumes after the novel’s original drawings by John Tenniel that were constructed in Italy, along with large-scale set pieces and backdrops onto which Shawn Boyle’s wow-inducing visual effects were projected.

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