Billboards (ballet)

Billboards is a ballet created by 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^[4]

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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