ACT 2 (cont)

Out on the range, Lando’s thoughts turn to Rosie. He falls asleep, and in a dream, Cupid brings him to her. When he wakes, he is inspired to announce his ardor with banners of love for Rosie. Meanwhile, Ollie chances upon CeCe. He is charmed by her sweet sincerity—and she finds herself falling for him as well. CeCe shows Ollie that nothing is more important than love.

Elsewhere on the range, Rosie (still in her cowboy disguise) finds Lando festooning the countryside with his love banners. She decides to take advantage of the freedom afforded by her male persona and teases and berates him for “sighing like a furnace and making a sonnet to his mistress’s eyebrow.” She claims love is “merely a madness.” She then proceeds to show him how moody and fickle his sweetheart would be if she were really there (which, unbeknownst to him, she is). He will not be dissuaded, though; he will love his Rosie no matter what she does.

As Lando and Rosie are courting, Phebe comes along, pursued by Silas. Phebe falls instantly in love with the young cowboy she takes Rosie to be; and so Rosie is wooed in jest by the man she truly loves and courted in earnest by a girl whose passion she cannot requite. At last, Rosie declares that every lover should have what he or she desires, and if they will all meet her on Duke’s Meadow in the morning, she will sort everything out.

Artists of Ballet Fantastique | Jeremy Bronson