`THE CHEMISTRY WAS JUST RIGHT' : WHY MERGER OF JOFFREY BALLET, `PURPLE RAIN'-MAKER SUCCEEDS.(L.A. LIFE)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: July 11, 1996 | Copyright information

``Purple Rain'' and the Joffrey Ballet?

Call it divine intervention.

How else, asks the Joffrey's artistic director, could one explain the hugely successful merging of ballet and the sensual compositions of the artist formerly known as Prince? Gerald Arpino, who also co-founded the Joffrey, is convinced that a hand from above mastered the creation and endurance of ``Billboards,'' which is set to begin its third Los Angeles run tonight at the Dorothy Chandler ...

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