The Bolshoi Ballet’s Nutcracker is two and a half hours of enchantment and magic! See it on the big screen in HD in a LIVE simulcast at The Ridgefield Playhouse on Sunday, December 23 at 12:55pm, part of Atria Senior Living Classical Series with support from Whistle Stop Bakery, underwritten by Jeanne Cook, Liz and Steven Goldstone, & Sabina and Walter Slavin.
As the clock strikes midnight on Christmas Eve, Marie’s wooden nutcracker doll comes to life and transforms into a prince! Soon joined by her other toys that have also come to life, Marie and her prince embark on a dreamy and unforgettable adventure. Along with Tchaikovsky’s cherished score and some of the Bolshoi’s greatest artists, The Nutcracker remains a treasure not to be missed!
The Nutcracker, based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffman called The Nutcracker and The Mouse King, a fantasy wherein a nutcracker comes to life on Christmas Eve to help a girl defeat an evil Mouse King, was a darker tale than the adaptation by Alexandre Dumas that was eventually brought to the stage. Tchaikovsky began work on it in 1891 and, on a trip home from the States where he’d been performing at Carnegie Hall which took him through Paris, discovered the celesta (an orchestral percussion instrument that resembles a small piano) and therein found the voice of his sugar plum fairies
For tickets ($25 | Members & Seniors $20 | Students $15 | FREE for students 18 and under), call or visit the box office, 203-438-5795 or go online at ridgefieldplayhouse.org. The Ridgefield Playhouse is a non-profit performing arts center located at 80 East Ridge, parallel to Main Street, Ridgefield, CT.