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Jayden Fowora-Knight as Captain Philip Hoffman, a nutcracker who helps Clara on her journey. Helen Mirren as Mother Ginger, regent of the Land of Amusements (also known as The Fourth Realm). Morgan Freeman as Drosselmeyer, Clara's godfather, a skilled engineer, who gives her a magical gift that once belonged to her mother.
Ballet Austin has been presenting the Nutcracker since 1962 and since 1997, hundreds of Central Texans have played Mother Ginger. A different celebrity is featured in every performance.
Choreographer George Balanchine's production of Petipa and Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker is a broadly popular version of the ballet often performed in the United States. Conceived for the New York City Ballet , its premiere took place on February 2, 1954, at City Center , New York, with costumes by Karinska , sets by Horace Armistead ...
The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик [a], romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ⓘ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll.
Polichinelle, the little children or clowns in The Nutcracker ballet who emerge from Mother Ginger's enormous hoop skirt to do a short dance; Polichinelle Couloir near La Grave, France where the American extreme skier Doug Coombs died in a fall. "Polichinelle", a 2012 cover by the Symphonic Metal band Therion
Their popularity grew in the 19th century and spread throughout Europe, prompting Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann to pen a children's short story in 1816 called The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.
For one mother, the spirit of Christmas is found in her daughter's eyes. ... The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. WALT DISNEY STUDIOS Richard E. Grant, Keira Knightley, Eugenio Derbez and Mackenzie ...
The Nutcracker, also known as George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, is a 1993 American Christmas ballet film based on Peter Martins's stage production and directed by Emile Ardolino. It stars Darci Kistler , Damian Woetzel , Kyra Nichols , Bart Robinson Cook, Macaulay Culkin , Jessica Lynn Cohen, Wendy Whelan , Margaret Tracey, Gen Horiuchi , Tom ...