Reassembling the ‘Little Dancer’ by Degas as a Musical

NYTimes.com: Like the Dark Lady of Shakespeare’s sonnets and Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” Degas’s “Little Dancer” has become both symbol and myth: She’s a source of fascination, inspiration and speculation. But, just as Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan were based on real children, we know who inspired this 1881 sculpture: Marie van Goethem, a young dancer who joined the Paris Opera Ballet in 1880.