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The Nutcracker PHOTO BY DARRELL HOEMANN PHOTOGRAPHY HOEMANN DARRELL BY PHOTO THE NUTCRACKER CHAMPAIGN URBANA BALLET | CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Friday, December 1, 2017, at 7:30pm; Saturday, December 2, 2017, at 2pm and 7:30pm; Sunday, December 3, 2017, at 2pm; Friday, December 8, 2017 at 7:30pm; Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 2pm and 7:30pm; Sunday, December 10, 2017 at 2pm Tryon Festival Theatre THANK YOU TO THE SPONSORS OF THIS PERFORMANCE This Champaign Urbana Ballet presentation of The Nutcracker, in cooperation with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra and Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, is made possible with support from promotional sponsors including Area-Wide Technologies; The Bill Bass Foundation; Carlton Bruett Design; Champaign Ballet Academy; Chifan Cheng DDS, Vickie Hemann DDS, and Leah Davis DMD, MSD; Christie Clinic | Department of Foot & Ankle Surgery; Consolidated Communications; Homewood Suites by Hilton; Iroquois Federal; Kam’s and Pia's; Merrill Lynch; R Rentals; Scott Machin Remodeling; Stone Ridge Dairy; and Two Men and a Truck. Also sponsored by Campus Middle School for Girls and Montessori School of Champaign-Urbana. This vital support keeps our local arts environment lively and thriving. THE ACT OF GIVING OF ACT THE 2 THE ACT OF GIVING OF ACT THE * 3 PROGRAM THE NUTCRACKER A ballet in two acts after the story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E. T. A. Hoffmann Music by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choreography by Deanna Doty Presented by Champaign Urbana Ballet Deanna Doty, Artistic Director Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra Stephen Alltop, Music Director and Conductor Matthew Sheppard, Guest Conductor Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Mike Ross, Director The Nutcracker Overture ACT I The Party The Battle The Land of Snow 20-minute intermission ACT II The Land of Sweets A classical ballet in two acts, The Nutcracker is based on E. T. A. Hoffmann’s tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816). Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky created the music for the ballet of this charming story in close collaboration with Marius Petipa, the renowned choreographer who, due to illness, turned the project over to his assistant, Lev Ivanov. The Nutcracker was first performed in 1892. 4 SYNOPSIS ACT I appears with his army of soldiers and cavalry at On Christmas Eve, the Stahlbaum household his side. A fierce battle with the rats and mice prepares for a grand holiday party. Clara, her ensues. The Rat Queen and the Nutcracker fall brother, Fritz, and their parents have invited injured, despite Clara’s bravery in defending guests to dance and celebrate. The arrival of the Nutcracker. Ice fairies appear and revive the Clara’s eccentric godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer, fallen Nutcracker, who comes to life in his true brings a sudden air of surprise to the party. princely form. The Nutcracker and Clara begin Drosselmeyer gathers the children and presents their journey to his homeland and dance among each with a special gift, including a nutcracker snowflakes in the Land of Snow before they are for Fritz and two magical life-sized dolls for magically carried away. Clara. While the guests are enamored with all Drosselmeyer’s creations, Clara is only interested ACT II in the nutcracker. A playful Fritz steals the key to Clara and the Nutcracker travel across a the life-sized dolls, and his mischievous behavior lemonade sea toward his homeland, the Land of causes them to dance frenetically and frighten Sweets, where they are greeted warmly by the the guests. Afraid that the party has gone awry, Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier. Clara recounts Mrs. Stahlbaum calls for the adults to assemble her heroic tale in which the Sugar Plum Fairy in the dining room for a holiday feast. No longer presents Clara with a magnificent crown and under the watchful eye of his parents, Fritz and flavorful dances of foreign confections, including his friends disrupt the girls at play, causing the the beautiful waltz of flowers, before the entire nutcracker doll to break in two. Drosselmeyer court joins in a final gavotte. Drosselmeyer reappears and, to console his goddaughter, reappears, and Clara’s reverie begins to fade as repairs the broken doll before leaving in a dash. she is magically returned to the comforts of home After a final dance, the guests depart and the and the memory of a fantastic dream. family retires for the night. Just before midnight, Clara steals down to the eerily darkened room to find her nutcracker. She falls asleep, and the events from the day slip into her dreams. The Rat Queen and her legions of rodents appear, threatening Clara. As the nightmarish taunting escalates, Drosselmeyer shows his power by casting the rodents and furniture away and making the Christmas tree grow to enormous heights. The Nutcracker, grown to life size yet trapped in toy form, 5 CAST ACT I: THE PARTY ACT I: THE BATTLE Drosselmeyer Party Girls Nutcracker John Dayger* Emma Donnini* Alexander Hynes* Chris Ochs^ Elizabeth Hall^ Isaac Lee^ Breanna James^ Clara Eleanor Kraatz* Rat Queen Amalia Bollero* Dorisa Mosher* Luke Worland* Addison McClure^ Emma Rypka Sophia Ebel^ Fritz Emily Shunk Rats Lorenzo Pantano* Grace Williams-Kim^ Beau Chapman Cale Helfer^ Clara Wood Beatrice Ebel^ Jon Ebel Mrs. Stahlbaum Party Boys Maximilian Cajavilca^ Brett Feddersen Maggie Tewksbury* Alexander Hynes^ Lara Morgan^ Odin Cochran* Drake Helfer^ Xavia Kennedy* Mr. Stahlbaum Brandon Lee^ Isaac Lee* Kevin Burnside* Alexandre Pantano Oscar Lewis Luke Worland^ Flax Runkle* Rosy Odum* Lark Runkle* Lorenzo Pantano Party Mothers Rob Rypka Sophia Ebel* Boy Doll Ava Teague^ Mariel Ferreira Isaac Lee* Lauren Frost Alexander Hynes^ Mice Lillian Rice Rosalie Anderson^ Angie Song Girl Doll Madilynn Bain* Farah Willenbrock^ Irina Cheng* Piper Fields* Amanda Norcross^ Drake Helfer^ Party Fathers Alexis Hunt* Jon Ebel Footman Jimin Kim^ Brett Feddersen Oscar Lewis* Brandon Lee^ Tony Hynes Beau Chapman^ Reina Lee* Elijah Ochs Maid Lahori Mitra^ Rob Rypka Lara Morgan* Mayameen Mizan^ Maggie Tewksbury^ Jackson Mohr^ Aubrie Murray* Brenna Murphy^ Christina Rao* Evangeline Rice* 6 ACT I: THE LAND OF THE Róisín Rice* Soldiers SNOW Katarina Riddle* Rylee Boyer-Killion^ Ice Fairies Isabella Rosa* Cecilia Calfas* Sophia Ebel* Eleanor Rypka* Finnegan Cochran* Lauren Frost Cadence Scheunemann^ Odin Cochran* Lara Morgan Alice Schleicher^ Leyla Cohen Amanda Norcross Yenna Shin^ Annika Drasgow^ Angie Song Gianna Wilson^ Emily Duong* Maggie Tewksbury Selene Wong* May Gaillard^ Farah Willenbrock^ Londyn Grant* Cavalry Noah Grucza Snowflakes Irina Cheng^ Arelly Gutierrez^ Amalia Bollero^ Ilana Cohen^ Emily Hall^ Byla Chapman Charlotte Ebel* Alivia Learned^ Irina Cheng Mariel Ferreira* Daisy Grace Lewis* Ilana Cohen Eve Freund* Claudia Lundsgaard* Charlotte Ebel Ellie Hatcher^ Isabella Marino^ Mariel Ferreira Hanna Laible-Seif Sydney Ochs Eve Freund Kiera McCoy^ Alexandre Pantano* Ellie Hatcher Lillian Rice* Janaki Raj-Underhill^ Janie Lee Zoey Rypka Allison Rebollo^ Addison McClure* Kiera McCoy Captains Lily Belle Rice* Lark Runkle* Lillian Rice Cate Feinen^ Zoey Rypka Sierra Freund* Mia Sherman^ Cale Helfer* Tre'Von Smith-Stuber Noelle Hunt* Samiha Thatikonda^ Breanna James* Momoka Tsuchimoto Eleanor Kraatz^ Samantha Walden^ Sophia Marino^ Renee Wang* Dorisa Mosher^ * denotes dancers performing on the evenings of December 1 and 2 and the matinees of December 9 and 10 ^ denotes dancers performing on the matinees of December 2 and 3 and the evenings of December 8 and 9 7 ACT II: THE LAND OF THE SWEETS Lemonade Sprites Chinese Butterfly Russian Czarina Irina Cheng Lillian Rice* Sophia Ebel Ilana Cohen Ellie Hatcher^ with Charlotte Ebel Alexander Hynes^ Sophia Ebel Chinese Dragon Luke Worland* Mariel Ferreira Jack Hatcher Eve Freund Russian Dance Chinese Dragon Legs Charlotte Ebel^ Ellie Hatcher^ Emily Duong* Kiera McCoy Mariel Ferreira* Annika Drasgow^ Ellie Hatcher* Amanda Norcross Sierra Freund Lillian Rice* Kiera McCoy* Emily Hall^ Lillian Rice^ Emma Rypka Daisy Grace Lewis* Zoey Rypka Zoey Rypka Sophia Marino Farah Willenbrock^ Emily Shunk Sydney Ochs Angie Song^ Lily Belle Rice* Ribbon Candy Maggie Tewksbury* Mia Sherman^ Byla Chapmam Farah Willenbrock Momoka Tsuchimoto Irina Cheng* Heralds Samantha Walden^ Beatrice Ebel Emma Donnini* Renee Wang* Cale Helfer Breanna James Cate Feinen^ Arabian Princess Noah Grucza Eleanor Kraatz Maggie Tewksbury* Isaac Lee* Cale Helfer Angie Song^ Noelle Hunt* Janie Lee Oscar Lewis Arabian Bearers Oscar Lewis Dorisa Mosher^ Jon Ebel Lara Morgan^ Alexandre Pantano Brett Feddersen Lorenzo Pantano Tony Hynes Emma Rypka Sugar Plum Fairy Rob Rypka Emily Shunk Lara Morgan* Grace Williams-Kim Lauren Frost^ Arabian Harem Clara Wood Ilana Cohen Luke Worland^ Cavalier Eve Freund Kevin Burnside* Elizabeth Hall Mother Ginger Elijah Ochs^ Xavia Kennedy* Christine Catanzarite Hanna Laible-Seif John Dayger Spanish Dancers Joelle McCulley Beau Chapman Rosy Odum Ava Teague^ Joe Murphy Angie Song* Taya Ross Maggie Tewksbury^ 8 Polichinelles Flowers Adam Byron^ Amalia Bollero^ Maximilian Cajavilca^ Byla Chapman Farrah Clark^ Irina Cheng* Eva Gleason^ Ilana Cohen Ivy Grant* Charlotte Ebel^ Beau Hansen^ Sophia Ebel Cora Kasper* Mariel Ferreira* Danielle Kouski* Eve Freund Grace Ledford^ Lauren Frost* Belle Lewis* Ellie Hatcher Maliyah Owens^ Janie Lee Jackson Ridlon* Addison McClure* Flax Runkle* Kiera McCoy Soma Sarathy* Lara Morgan^ Fletcher Sowers* Lillian Rice Shengshan Tang^ Zoey Rypka Angie Song Flower Pas de Deux Maggie Tewksbury Kevin Burnside^ Farah Willenbrock^ Irina
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