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Two well-known actors also took part: Macaulay Culkin appeared as the Nutcracker/Prince, and Kevin Kline served as the offscreen narrator. Numbers are given according to the original Russian and French titles of the first edition score (1892), the piano reduction score by Sergei Taneyev (1892), both published by P. The film was directed by Carroll Ballard, who had never before directed a ballet film (and has not done so since). Alexander tried a more positive portrayal of the Chinese, but this was replaced by the more traditional version, despite positive reception.

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The story was first published in 1816 in German in Berlin by In der Realschulbuchhandlung in a volume entitled Kinder-Mährchen, Children’s Stories, which also included tales by Carl Wilhelm Contessa and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Fun fact: Maria Tallchief, a member of the Osage Nation, performed the roll of the Sugar Plum Fairy in Balanchine's production. An abridged version of the ballet was first performed outside Russia in Budapest (Royal Opera House) in 1927, with choreography by Ede Brada.The grandfather clock begins to chime, and Marie believes she sees Drosselmeyer sitting on top of it, preventing it from striking. I love the story and the memories attached to The Nutcracker but I’m not the greatest fan of this book surprisingly. One of their points was that only the Chinese dance made dancers look like an ethnic group other than the one they belonged to. Since Gorsky, Vainonen and Balanchine's productions, many other choreographers have made their own versions.

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Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and the GFDL; additional terms may apply. Vsevolozsky thought another ballet based on a children's story would be just as successful as The Sleeping Beauty. Caniparoli has been influenced by his simultaneous career as a dancer, having joined San Francisco Ballet in 1971 and performing as Drosselmeir and other various Nutcracker roles ever since that time.They receive splendid gifts; Drosselmeyer's turns out to be a clockwork castle with mechanical people moving around inside. He decides that the ballet is the "most inconsequential" of all the composer's mature works for theatre, and "its dramatic structure the least satisfactory. It was also adapted into the 1979 stop motion film Nutcracker Fantasy, the traditional animation films Schelkunchik (Russia, 1973), and The Nutcracker Prince (Canada, 1990) [4] and the 2010 film The Nutcracker in 3D. Marie’s godfather says this nutcracker once saved a beautiful princess from a horrible spell cast by the wicked Mouse Queen.

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Jennifer Fisher points out that it is "the most popular and most often [staged] ballet in the world.

We’ve been collecting Nutcracker books since we watched the Nutcracker for the first time when she was four. Yet The Nutcracker is now seasonal entertainment even in parts of America where snow seldom falls: Hawaii, the California coast, Florida.