"No performance is a perfect performance but some performances allow for the feeling of perfection. Achieving this moment of ecstasy easily validates all the pain and struggle of the art form by taking us, and possibly our audience, for a moment to a world beyond our own."
So NBC cut out The Who, Muse, Darcey Bussel descending on a giant flying phoenix and 200 members of the Royal Ballet dancing in black pointe shoes and flame tutus…