Billboards (ballet)

Billboards
Poster for Billboards
Music	Prince
Productions	University of Iowa (January 1993); Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles (July 1993); Brooklyn Academy of Music (November 1993)

Billboards is a ballet commissioned by Gerald Arpino for the Joffrey Ballet featuring the works of Prince.^[1][2] The premiere was on Wednesday, January 27, 1993, at Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

No new music was used, although Prince contributed a special extended ten-minute orchestrated version of "Thunder" from the Diamonds and Pearls album. A video of the performance was released on VHS in February 1994,^[3] and on Laserdisc format.

Acts[]

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I: Sometimes It Snows in April[]

Choreographed by Laura Dean.

• "Sometimes It Snows in April"
• "Trust" / "Baby I'm a Star"

II: Thunder[]

Choreographed by Charles Moulton.

• "Thunder"
• "Purple Rain"

III: Slide[]

Choreographed by Margo Sappington.

• "Computer Blue"
• "I Wanna Melt with U"
• "The Beautiful Ones"
• "Release It" (by The Time)/ "Computer Blue" (Reprise)

IV: Willing & Able[]

Choreographed by Peter Pucci.

• "For You"
• "The Question of U"
• "It"
• "Willing and Able" / "Gett Off"

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