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The Nutcracker for Christmas
Classic ballet exclusively performed at SOPAC
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Listening to classical music isn’t exactly a national pastime. For many Americans, the difference between Bach and Beethoven is the number of letters in their names. But when the first notes of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Suite begin to play, a special thing happens. Classical music becomes hum–along familiar. Ballet becomes as tangible as a wedding dance.
The story of The Nutcracker is all too familiar to many of us. The story has been published in many book versions including colorful children–friendly versions. The plot revolves around a German girl named Clara Stahlbaum or Clara Silberhaus, her beloved nutcracker doll, and an imaginative fantasy world.
This Christmas season, those familiar notes will once again be heard as the New York Theater Ballet performs what is perhaps the best known (and loved) ballet at South Orange Performing Arts Center. Wednesday December 4 and Thursday December 5 at 7:00 pm The Nutcracker will be performed. New York Theater Ballet’s performance will feature choreography by Keith Michael set to the famed original score by Tchaikovsky. The performances are the only professional one–hour performance of The Nutcracker in the New York metropolitan area.
For more information on The Nutcracker and or to purchase tickets, please visit www.sopacnow.org.