Practical Magic: San Francisco Ballet's Beyond-Charming Cinderella

Last year, I saw choreographer Christopher Wheeldon's splendid Cinderella, with its equally splendid dancing, sets, costumes, and theatrical magic, as performed by San Francisco Ballet. Why am I telling you this? Cinderella returns this season, in just two weeks, and I, for one, can't wait to see it again. Wheeldon's Cinderella is danced to the same Prokofiev score as the original Bolshoi Cinderella, first performed in 1945. (The very first Cinderella premiered in St. Petersburg in 1893, to musi...