This fantastical fairy tale is a timeless classic of the Christmas season. He then whisks Marie away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls.

Box office: 020-7645 0560 Venue: Unicorn, London. The Nutcracker must fight the Mouse King and his armies with the help of an entire cabinet of Marie's playthings. Hoffmanns The Nutcracker and the King of Mice. Fun, but not quite the delicious call to imaginative arms that it might have been. Now, in this glorious new edition, acclaimed childrens book author and editor Janet Schulman returns to the sourceE.T.A. But, the origins of the Nutcracker isn’t the history of. The brother, Fritz, is also underdeveloped, so the St Peter-like moment at the end when he denies imagination simply doesn’t have the impact it should. A story that spawned a thousand childrens books and countless adaptations for the stage, and then eventually made it to the silver screen. Every Christmas Eve, mysterious Godfather Drosselmeier brings Marie Stahlbaum and. But the design – lovely as it is to look at, and clever in its play upon the idea of a toy theatre – is a bit of a straitjacket, robbing Ellen McDougall’s (clearly still under-rehearsed) production of its fluidity and leading to some clumsy moments.Įverything needs tightening up, from the playing time to the storytelling itself, particularly the story within a story about a beautiful princess cursed with ugliness by the vengeful Mouserink (tellingly played by the same actor as Marie’s mother). A retelling breathes new life into E.T.A. The seven-headed puppet mouse king is also terrific – scary but comical. With a second-act foray into a land of candy, featuring rollerskating swans and where a Victorian slipper bath stands in for a golden gondolier, there’s plenty to delight the eye. Conceived by John Mauceri (Grammy, Tony, and three-time Emmy winner), this new work is a re-imagination of Tchaikovskys holiday favorite, 'The Nutcracker.' Based on E.T.A.

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