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Today, for the dance companies of the U.S. and Europe, Nutcracker is invariably a boxoffice bonanza. "It's what pays the bills for every company," said Deborah Morris of the Theater Ballet of San Francisco. For audiences it provides escape into a world of genuine magic. After her fourth Nutcracker...
...Boston Ballet performance led by Arthur Fiedler, 82, Linda Morton, 13, said: "I never get tired of it. That would be like getting tired of Christmas...
...native Russia, Nutcracker is as much a New Year's happening as a Christmas ballet. At the Bolshoi in Moscow, there are no children's matinees and no children among the dancers. Still, tickets were impossible to come by last week. In the U.S., each year seems to bring a new production somewhere. This week at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the American Ballet Theater begins a two-week run with a new Nutcracker choreographed by and starring Mikhail Baryshnikov. In New York City, alas, Balanchine's 22-year-old production, the best and most popular...
There are, perhaps forgivably, some dancers who eventually come to view the show about as charitably as a harpsichordist girding for his umpty-umpth Messiah. A child might think it sheer bliss to be able to perform The Waltz of the Snowflakes. Says Vassilie Trunoff, ballet master of the London Festival Ballet: "I call it The Dance of the Cornflakes' because we've got corns on our feet from dancing it so often." There are few major dancers or choreographers whose careers have not crossed that of Herr Drosselmeyer, Marie (or Clara, as she is sometimes known...
...that Nutcracker has achieved its most phenomenal popularity. The first full-length version in the U.S. was staged by the San Francisco Ballet in 1944. This year there are at least 150 professional and amateur productions. Kids everywhere vie for a role in the ballet. When they get one, they can pose problems. One San Francisco production features a box of bonbons, played by very small children. Every year some tot goes on a crying jag. Last Christmas one child conquered her stage fright by downing a quick pizza and a hot pastrami. She could barely waddle...