1.   And there were story ballets, too, lavish productions requiring extra-zealous fund-raising from Kirstein.

2.   Honoring company tradition and those stalwart dancegoers who had stuck with the troupe throughout the hard times, he made story ballets his chief instrument of change.

3.   In Boston, though, story ballets are big.

4.   It is a full-length story ballet, a genre considered by many to be money in the bank.

5.   Martins smiles at news conferences when asked if any choreographers would be drummed out of the New York State Theater should they attempt a story ballet under his watch.

6.   Nor should one play down the importance of selling the more marketable full-evening story ballets.

7.   Not many story ballets are based on the lives of real people while they are still living.

8.   Stevenson is regarded as a major creator of full-length story ballets.

9.   The characters in musicals, unlike those in operas or story ballets, are generally ordinary-looking folk, who more or less speak as you do.