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CAL PERFORMANCES PRESENTS ’s ! November 26-December 5, 2004 Zellerbach Hall

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Director and Chroeographer Matthew Bourne Designer Music Director Brett Morris Lighting Designer Howard Harrison Sound Designer Paul Groothius Original Scenario Devisors Matthew Bourne and Martin Duncan Associate Directors Scott Ambler and Etta Murfitt Resident Director Isabel Mortimer Rehearsal Directors Vicky Evans and Neil Penlington Associate Sound Designer Richard Brooker Production Manager Richard Bullimore Manager Charles Evans Stage Manager David Curl Deputy Stage Manager Sian Evans Assistant Stage Managers Cat Fiabane and Chris King Physiotherapist Ava Katics MCSPSRP Hair, Wigs and Make- Consultant Sally Tynan Costume Supervisor Wendy Griffiths Wardrobe Master Francis Ponisi Wigs Mistress Carol Dunne Wardrobe Deputy Rachel Thurley Production Carpenter Dominic Addy Touring Carpenter Tom McEvilly Tour Electrician Stuart Cross Production Electrician Alistair Grant Production Sound Engineer Greg Pink Sound Operator Angela McCluney

Cast Samuel Archer, Kerry Biggin, Madelaine Brennan, Ross Carpenter, Gareth Charlton, Annabelle Dalling, Darren Ellis, Vicky Evans, Matt Flint, Adam Galbraith, Paulo Kadow, Rachel Lancaster, James Leece, Michela Meazza, Anjali Mehra, Etta Murfitt, Gemma Payne, Neil Penlington, Lee Smikle, Mikah Smillie, Mireille Tolmer, Mami Tomotani, Hannah Vassallo, Alan Vincent, Shelby Williams, Philip Willingham, Richard Winsor, Matthew Winston, Chihiro Yako

This performance has been made possible in part by the Friends of Cal Performances.

Cal Performances thanks the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Wallace Foundation, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation for their generous support.

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ACT ONE Eve at Dr. Dross’ Orphanage For Waifs and Strays Preparations for a visit Presents and Party Pieces Time for Bed The Revolt A Frozen Lake The Rival INTERMISSION ACT TWO The Road to Sweetieland Help From Above Sweetieland By Invitation Only The Wedding Party Real Life

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Casting The names of the dancers for each performance are posted on easels in the lobby

Clara Etta Murfitt, Shelby Williams, Kerry Biggin, Mami Tomotani Philbert/Nutracker Alan Vincent, Adam Galbraith, James Leece Sugar/Princess Michela Meazza, Angi Mehra, Mireille Tolmer, Mikah Smillie Fritz/Bon Bon Neil Penlington, Philip Willingham, Lee Smikle

Mrs. Dross/Queen Annabelle Dalling, Rachel Lancaster, Vicky Evans Dr. Dross/King James Leece, Adam Galbraith, Alan Vincent, Scott Ambler Enid/Cupid 1 Shelby Williams, Mami Tomotani, Hannah Vassallo Edward/Cupid 2

Catherine Ashmore Catherine Lee Smikle, Philip Willingham, Neil Penlington Nicolas/Knickerbocker Paulo Kadow, Ross Carpenter, Darren Ellis Ruby/Licorice Lady Vicky Evans, Mami Tomotani, Kerry Biggin Mikey/Licorice Man 1 Richard Winsor, Darren Ellis, Sam Archer Vic/Licorice Man 2 Samuel Archer, Richard Winsor, Paulo Kadow Jack/Gobstopper 1 Adam Galbraith, Gareth Charlton, Philip Willingham Bob/Gobstopper 2 Matt Flint, James Leece, Ross Carpenter Little Willy/Gobstopper 3 Ross Carpenter, Matthew Winston, Lee Smikle Lotte/Marshmallow 1 Gemma Payne, Chihiro Yako, Mikah Smillie Tilly/Marshmallow 2 Mireille Tolmer, Gemma Payne, Maddie Brennan /Marshmallow 3 Kerry Biggin, Hannah Vassallo, Angali Mehra Cordie/Marshmallow 4 Rachel Lancaster, Mikah Smillie, Chihiro Yako Clemmie/Marshmallow 5 Mami Tomotani, Maddie Brennan, Hannah Vassallo, Biggin/Lancaster

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E. T. A. Hoffman, the German storyteller, a riot of color and embellishment, and predated Freud by a hundred years, but even so Tchaikovsky’s music sound-painted the his stories are filled with the dark symbolism, action in his most vivid orchestral palette. So weird lapses of logic and undertow of dread lavish was this combination, however, that that we associate with dreaming and the it seemed excessive even for Tsarist tastes. subconscious. So diabolical were aspects of Critics complained that the staging was too Hoffman’s scenarios and so grotesque some sumptuous for the ’s meagre storyline of his characters, his writing might seem a and characters to support it. dubious place to look for ballet librettos. Yet The ballet’s popularity didn’t much im- several of his plots have been put onto the prove, and during the beginning of the 20th stage, most famously “Der Sandmann” century its chances of survival seemed rocky. in Coppélia, and “Der Nussknacker und der In Soviet Russia it underwent a couple of Mausekönig” for . drastic rewrites which might have sunk it The storyline for Nutcracker was based for good, including Fedor Lopukhov’s 1929 on a somewhat sanitized translation of the version which cast it in the style of a satirical original (written by Dumas the Elder) and revue. In the West it first appeared in the further simplified in the libretto which form of small fragments, tucked into Russian was choreographed by Lev in 1892. émigré productions of like Sleeping This tells the story of Herr Drosselmeyer, Beauty and . But by the mid-20th an eccentric old man with special powers century full-length versions had become a who attends a Christmas party given by the staple of both Soviet and Western repertories. Stahlbaum family. He brings a Nutcracker toy The first complete version staged in the West as a present for the daughter Clara, and during was performed in at Sadler’s Wells a dream sequence in which the toys and the by the Vic Wells Ballet in 1934 (featuring grow to giant proportions, she a very young making her becomes caught up in a battle between the professional debut as a Snowflake). It was Nutcracker and an evil Mouse King. She kills based on choreographic notation which the King, the Nutcracker turns into a prince, had been smuggled out of Russia. The first and as a reward Clara travels off with him to complete American version was staged by the Kingdom of the Sweets. the in 1944 by with The ballet’s score, written by Tchaikovsky, by Willam Christiansen. retained a sinister frisson of the Hoffman produced his now classic original, especially in the darkly fantastical version in 1954. By the 1980s America had themes given to Drosselmeyer. When 300 separate productions touring its 50 Clara comes downstairs at midnight to states. find marauding rodents pouring out of the One reason for the Nutcracker’s popular- woodwork, the music at least implies the ity is, of course, its Christmas setting, which possibility of evil pre-empting the ballet’s has destined the ballet to become a fixture happy ending. But it remains only a possibility, of the festive season. However harassed and because the apparent aim of the first dysfunctional real-life may be, Nutcracker was to set an opulent new standard in this ballet the streets are covered with in escapist fantasy for the Imperial Court at snow, the decorations are exquisitely hung, St Petersburg. Ivanov’s choreography focused everyone gets the perfect gift-wrapped present on the most charming aspects of the story, and (apart from a little scenic rioting among with its bustling party numbers, exquisite the kids) there are no teenagers retreating snow scene and exotic divertissements in to their bedrooms to sulk. Another reason the Kingdom of Sweets. The designs were for the ballet’s universal appeal is its music.

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The magic and exoticism which Tchaikovsky early critics saw clearly, there is no sustained wrote into his score may work best for younger psychological or theatrical momentum listeners but there is an element of romantic holding the work together. Virtually all of its melancholy (alongside the more sinister story is acted out in Act One, while Act Two is music of Drosselmeyer) which prevents the a series of disconnected dance divertissements. score from crystallizing into pure sugar. The This lopsidedness is compounded by the fact composer was mourning the death of his little that the two leading characters (Clara and niece Sasha when he wrote the music, and Drosselmeyer) are not full dancing roles, even as it communicates a childlike dream while the principal dancers (Sugar Plum and of it also hints at the ephemeral her Prince) have little dramatic function. nature of innocence and joy. Nowhere is this These problems have haunted modern more evident than the beautiful directors, and their obsession with solving for the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince at the them has resulted in the extreme number and climax of Act II. The falling melodic line of variety of their different versions. Some have the music and the poignant orchestration add involved controversial reinterpretation, such the clutch of heartache to this grand, tender as ’s 1967 production which, passage. in keeping with the Freudian undercurrents But one more, paradoxical, reason for the of Hoffman’s tale, had Clara doing dream ballet’s many stagings is the fact that it’s a battle with members of her family who’d seriously flawed work. However considerable been transformed into nightmarish rats and Tchaikovsky’s musical achievement may bats, and had the surrogate father figure have been, it could not paper over certain Drosselmeyer turning (Oedipally) into the gaping cracks within the ballet’s structure. As prince who leads Clara out of danger.

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In ’s 1971 version Drossel- reimagined a cast of non-human characters meyer became a ballet master and Act Two including dancing fish and fungi, with none of was set in a theater in which Clara performed the original plot or setting. And the ultimate Drosselmeyer had choreographed for toy version is the video of Nutcracker her. In Peter Schaufuss’s 1986 staging the which has the world’s most dressed-up story’s rationale was found in Tchaikovsky’s loosely modelled on the role of Clara. biography so that the composer became Of the contemporary none identified with Drosselmeyer, and the ballet have been more brashly alternative than Mark was presented as Tchaikovsky’s dream with all Morris’ The Hard Nut (1991). This updated the original characters linked to people in his the ballet to an American 1960s household, life. with a first act that boasted a fake Christmas Most of these re-tellings retained some tree, bad hairdos and drunken discoing, and a elements from the ballet’s traditional setting, second act which included a trio of oil sheiks and one of the most traditional of all has amongst its exotic divertissements. Matthew been ’s recent production for Bourne’s 1992 version features some elements . This version actually returns as roguish and funny as Morris’ version, to Hoffman to find its dramatic logic, including the grisly orphanage run by Mr. highlighting the fact that the Nutcracker is and Mrs. Dross and the ruthless machinations Drosselmeyer’s nephew Hans-Peter, who of flirty Sugar. But there are lavish dollops of was turned into a doll by the Mouse King in spectacle and old-fashioned romance, which revenge for Drosselmeyer’s success in killing are pitched as much at as their off the city’s mice. Wright also added a few parents, such as the acid-colored sweetie years to Clara’s usual age so that she could figures, the pillow fights and the cupid- fall in love with Hans-Peter at the end of the framed pas de deux. ballet. The co-existence of so many Nutcrackers Other variant stagings though have put means that 110 years after the ballet was themselves at a much more drastic remove first created there is now a version to seduce from the old-fashioned conviviality and Scrooges and sentimentalists alike. The toys sparkle of the original. The most child-friendly at the Stahlbaums’ party may be Playstation of these have tended to focus on the toys and characters, or they may look like beautifully the transformations in the ballet. English carved wooden puppets. The guests may be National Ballet’s 2002 staging designed by quarrelsome ingrates or rosy-cheeked child- Gerald Scarfe is set in a world that looks ren, the set may be a minimalist drawing like a cross between Vivienne Westwood room or a Biedermeier mansion. But it’s a and , but while it may feature safe bet that as long as Christmas remains in several adult jokes (including a grandfather the calendar, there will always be a Clara on with a curvy girlfriend called Vi Aggra) its a ballet stage, staring in wonder at a growing emphasis is on the toy soldiers who swoop Christmas tree and voyaging off to the candy- onto the stage by parachute and the cartoon colored bliss of the Kingdom of the Sweets. energy of the action. Disney’s animation of Tchaikovsky’s music in Fantasia enduringly by Judith Mackrell

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Matthew Bourne (director, choreographer landmark production of Swan Lake is being and co-devisor of original scenario) is a four- revived for Christmas 2004 at Sadler’s Wells time Olivier Award winner and the creator of prior to a world tour. While next Spring he the world’s longest-running ballet production, will revive his production of Highland Fling Swan Lake. With his modern interpretation on tour in the UK. of the ballet classic, he is also the only British Matthew started dancing at the age of director to have won the Tony Award for Best 22, when he enrolled at the Laban Centre. Director and Best Choreographer of a Musical He was awarded a BA (Hons) degree in 1986 in the same year (1999). In 2002 he launched and spent a further year performing with the his latest venture, NEW ADVENTURES, Laban Centre’s Transitions Dance Company. to create all his future independent work. In As a dancer he was a founding member of Lea the summer of last year he premièred Play Anderson’s Featherstonehaughs and created Without Words as part of the National ’s many roles with his own company. His final Transformation season to great critical and performance as a dancer came in January popular acclaim. The production went on to 1999, playing the Private Secretary in the be nominated for a record five 2003 Olivier Broadway production of Swan Lake. Awards and Award for Matthew Bourne was the Artistic Direct- Dance, and appears at Cal Performances in or of Adventures in Motion Pictures from June 2005. 1987 until 2002. During those 15 years AMP Matthew’s latest projects include a role as became the UK’s most innovative and popular co-director and choreographer on the Disney dance/theatre company, winning countless production of Mary awards for its groundbreaking work, both at Poppins. Matthew is also delighted that his and internationally.

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Works created for AMP include Overlap has made dances for many leading actors Lovers, Spitfire, Buck and Wing, The including Sir , , Infernal Galop, Town and Country (Olivier , Martine McCutcheon and nomination), Deadly Serious, The Percys of . , Nutcracker! (Olivier nomination), In 1999 Faber and Faber published Matt- Highland Fling, Swan Lake (numerous hew Bourne and his Adventures in Motion international awards including two Tonys, Pictures, edited by theater and dance , Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle, Astaire Alastair Macaulay. Mr. Bourne is a director of Award, Olivier Award, South Bank Show The Spitfire Trust, and in 1997 he was made Award, Time Out Award, LA Critics’ Circle, an Honorary Fellow of his former college, Dramalogue Award), (LA Drama the Laban Centre. In the 2001 New Years Critics’ Circle and Backstage Garland Award), Honours list he was awarded an OBE for and (Evening Standard Theatre services to dance, and in 2003 he received the Award, Evening News Award, prestigious Hamburg Shakespeare Prize for Olivier nomination). AMP’s productions the Arts. have played throughout the world, including seasons in New York, , Hong Kong and Anthony Ward’s (designer, co-devisor of throughout Europe and the USA. original scenario) current theater credits Matthew Bourne’s film work includes Late include Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Flowering Lust (BBC), Drip (AMP/BBC), . Other theatre credits ’s Little Red Riding Hood (BBC), include at the Shubert Theatre on Swan Lake (AMP/BBC; Emmy nomination), Broadway; (2003 OBIE for the The Car Man (AMP/C4) and Nutcracker! Best Set Design), (Donmar (BBC1). He was the subject of a South Bank Warehouse, Brooklyn Academy of Music), Show in 1997, and in 1999 he hosted Britain’s (RNT, Theatre Royal, Drury ’s Dance 4 series. His production Lane), The Way of the World (Olivier Award of Swan Lake is featured in ’s for Costume Design), La Grande Magia, Sweet film . The Channel 4 documentary, of Youth, Napoli Millionaria, , The “Bourne to Dance,” which he presented, was Invention of Love, Oklahoma! (Olivier Award shown on Christmas Day 2001. for Set Design, also Lyceum and Broadway), His other theater work includes As You Remember This (RNT), To the Green Fields and Like It (RSC/), Children of Eden Beyond, , (), A Midsummer Night’s Burning Issues A Hard (West End/John Caird), ( Theatre), September 19 Charles Rus, organ Dream (Aix en Provence/), Heart, Dona Rosita, The Rehearsal (also West The Tempest (NYT), (Malmo End), The Novice (Almedia), Oliver! (London October 17 La Monica, Stadsteater, ), (Barbican/ Palladium), The Royal Family (Theatre Royal Chamber Ensemble ), Watch With Mother Haymarket), A Midsummer Night’s Dream November 21 Susan Matthews, organ (NYDC), Boutique (Images of Dance), Watch (Olivier Award for Costume Design), King December 19 Angela Kraft Cross, organ Your Step ( gala), Oliver! (London Lear, Artists and Admirers, The Winter’s Tale, Palladium/), French and Saunders The Alchemist, The Virtuoso, Troilus and January 16 Paul M. Ellison, organ Live in 2000 (UK tour), My Fair Lady (NT/ Cressida, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Twelfth Theatre Royal, Drury Lane/, Night, The Lion, and the Wardrobe, Olivier Award), South Pacific (NT/Trevor and The Secret Garden (RSC). Nunn), and Dream of Love (George Piper His work in includes The Makro- Dancers). poulos Case (, New York), As well as creating roles for major danc- (De Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp), Manon ers and , he Lescaut (Opera Nationale de ), The

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Carmelites (ENO and Welsh National Opera), Ballet; Albert Herring for ; The and Il Ritorno d’ Ulisse in Patria (Festival d’ Elixir Of Love for ; Art Lyrique, Aix-en-Provence). and The Makropulos Case and for the In ballet his work also includes Masquer- Metropolitan Opera, New York. ade (Royal Ballet Dance Bites 1999) and Les He has been nominated five times as Best Rendezvous (Royal Ballet). In film, his work Lighting Designer in the includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream (with Awards and was the recipient of the 2001 ). Australian Green Room Award for his work on Mamma Mia! Howard Harrison’s (lighting designer) cur- rent work includes in the West Paul Groothius (sound designer) was born End. Previous work includes Mamma Mia! in Holland and came to the UK in 1979 in London, Broadway, , Hamburg, to study stage management at the Central Holland, Japan, and Australia and on School of Speech and Drama. He toured the US tour; Skellig at the ; The Master UK as the sound operator for David Wood’s Builder at the Albery; Arms and the Man on play The Ideal Gnome Expedition. In 1982 he tour in the UK; and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on started working at a recording studio as a tape Broadway. operator, later becoming the studio’s resident His work in the West End includes Rag- engineer. He joined the Royal National time at the Piccadilly, of Eastwick Theatre in 1984, where he has designed the at Drury Lane/Prince of Wales, The Seven Year sound for over 120 productions across the Itch at the Queen’s, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at National’s three auditoria. Productions at the Lyric, A Delicate Balance at the Theatre the NT and beyond include The Shaughraun Royal Haymarket, Black Comedy at the (directed by , 1988), The Comedy, Kat and the Kings at the Vaudeville, Wind in the Willows (, 1990), Cyrano de Bergerac at the Lyric, Matador at The Night of the Iguana (, 1992), the Queen’s, and Old Wicked Songs at the Under Milk Wood (Roger Michell, 1995), Gielgud. On Broadway his work includes Flight (Howard Davies), The Merchant of Putting It Together and Kat and the Kings. Venice (Trevor Nunn, 1999), For the Royal Shakespeare Company he (Trevor Nunn, 1999), Bacchae (2002) and has lit Henry VIII, Cyrano De Bergerac, The The Oedipus Plays (1999), both directed by Sir Merchant Of Venice, The Tempest, Timon , The Coast of Utopia (Trevor Nunn, Of Athens, Talk of the City, The Prisoner’s 2002), A Streetcar Named Desire (Trevor Dilemma and . For the Royal Nunn), Henry V (Nicholas Hytner, 2003), National Theatre he has litPrivate Lives, Look Edmond (Edward Hall, 2003), A Funny Thing Back In Anger, Blue Remembered Hills, Sleep Happened on the Way to the Forum (Edward With Me and FIinding /The Marriage Hall 2004), Stuff Happens (Nicholas Hytner Play. For the Donmar Warehouse he has lit 2004), and CoisCéim Dance Theatre’s Fool For Love, The Fix, Tales From Hollywood, Mermaids, choreographed by David Bolger To The Green Fields Beyond, Privates on Parade (2003). and The Vortex. He has also designed the sound for musi- His opera and dance work includes Il cals such as Sunday in the Park With George Trovatore, Aida, I Masnadieri and Otello for (Steven Pimlott, 1990), Sweeney Todd (Declan the Royal Opera; Beatrice and Benedict and Donnellan, 1993), (Sean Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci for Welsh Mathias, 1996), Lady in the Dark (Francesca National Opera and ; Swan Zambello, 1997), Richard Eyre’s 1997 revival Lake and for English National of Guys and , and (John Caird,

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1999). In 1993 he co-designed Carousel Theatre. He is also a guest (Nicholas Hytner) with Mike Walker at the conductor of and RNT as well as for its transfer for Cameron in September 2002 he made his conducting Mackintosh Ltd. to the West End and Tokyo. debut with the Norwegian National Ballet. Another co-design with Mike Walker was Sam Highly regarded as a conductor of opera, Mendes’ production of Oliver! in 1994 at the Mr. Morris has conducted La Traviata, London Palladium for Cameron Mackintosh , The Rake’s Progress and The Magic Ltd. He also designed the sound for the recent Flute for English Touring Opera. For English production of at the London Festival Opera he conducted La Traviata at Palladium, directed by . the Queen Elizabeth II Hall, London. For Also the RNT’s production of Oklahoma! Opera New Zealand and its predecessors he (Trevor Nunn, 1998) and its transfer to the has conducted La Bohème, La Serva Padrona, Lyceum Theatre and Broadway in 2002, My La Traviata, , and Lucia Fair Lady (RNT, Trevor Nunn), as well as its di Lammermoor. transfer to Drury Lane in 2001. He was the sound designer on the RNT’s production of Martin Duncan (co-devisor of original Anything Goes directed by Trevor Nunn in scenario) trained as a stage manager at the November 2002. In 1999 he was awarded the London Academy of Music and Dramatic “Sound Designer of the Year” award by Live! Art. He was an actor for 20 years, working Magazine. Paul is also a founder consultor in repertory at Lincoln, Exeter, for the New Kingston Rose Theatre. Birmingham, Manchester, Watford, Durham, Sheffield, Stratford E.15 as well as in the West Brett Morris (music director) has worked End, on TV and film. As a composer, he has with New Adventures since its inception, also written the scores for more than 50 and recently conducted their acclaimed productions. production of Nutcracker! at Sadler’s Wells, As director his credits include The Rocky in addition to the soundtrack recording for Horror Show (Munich and Milan), The Comedy the film version. Previously he was music of Errors (Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin), director of Adventures in Motion Pictures. The Blacks (Market Theatre Johannesburg / His association with AMP began in 1999, ’s Stadsteater), I Caught My Death when he conducted their multi-award- in Venice (with The Brothers Marquez / winning production of Swan Lake on its Festival Theatre),School for Clowns UK tour. In 2000 he conducted its London ( Theatre, London). season at the , together As director and co-writer of The Nation- with performances at the Teatro Comunale in al Theatre of Brent his credits include The Ferrara and Modena. Greatest Story Ever Told (Kilburn Tricycle, He conducted the world premiere season of Edinburgh Festival and BBC Radio), The Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man in May 2000 French Revolution (BBC TV), All the World’s at the start of its UK tour. He subsequently a Globe (BBC Radio 4), Love Upon the conducted its season at , which Throne (Edinburgh Festival, Berlin Festival won the Evening Standard Award for Best and Comedy Theatre), Massive Landmarks Musical Event of 2000, before recording of the 20th Century (Channel 4 TV) and The the soundtrack for the Channel Four film Wonder of Sex (National Theatre). version. In 2001 he led performances at the Opera productions include Xerxes, La , . Clemenza di Tito, The Rake’s Progress, The Brett Morris has also been staff conductor Abduction From the Seraglio (Bavarian State and then principal guest conductor of Opera, Munich); The Last Supper (Berlin

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State Opera / Glyndebourne Festival); The period of eight years. Richard then covered Love for Three Oranges (Cologne Opera); La the move into the new building on the South Traviata (Flanders Opera); L’heure espagnol, bank, working as production manager for Gianni Schicchi, The Thieving Magpie, the Olivier Theatre. On leaving the National , The Nightingale’s To Blame (Opera he set up “The Production Office,” offering North); Ariadne auf Naxos (Scottish Opera / production management and technical Edinburgh International Festival); The Magic services to commercial producers. During Flute (Scottish Opera Royal / Royal Opera this period he was fortunate to work on some House); H.M.S. Pinafore, Die Fledermaus of London’s leading musicials: They’re Playing (D’Oyly Carte); among others. Our Song, , Starlight Express, Phantom of the Opera, , Mutiny and many others. Isabel Mortimer (resident director) trained at He again returned to the National Theatre, London School. Stage but as technical director, for a short period credits include: for New Adventures, Mrs. when Richard Eyre was made artistic director. Dross and a Licorice Allsort in Nutcracker!, Subsequently, he has returned to the West Sadler’s Wells and national tour (2002-03); as End, working on shows such as Crazy For a principal for Matthew Bourne’s Adventures You, Sunset Boulevard, Christ Superstar, in Motion Pictures, Madge in Highland Fling, Whistle Down the Wind, , Saturday West End and national tour, the Queen in Swan Night Fever, The King and I, Fosse, Kiss Me Kate, Lake, UK, West End, Broadway, Los Angeles Bombay Dreams, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and US tour; the Stepmother in Cinderalla, Nutcracker!, Anything Goes and most recently UK, West End, Lost Angeles, and US tour. The Woman in White and . She has danced with London Contemporary Dance Theatre, choreographers included Richard Brooker’s (associate sound designer) Mark Morris, Christopher Bruce, Bill T. theatre credits include associate sound Jones and Paul Taylor. Isabel won designer for Anything Goes and My Fair Lady Portfolio award for choreography. Opera (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); The King and credits include choreography for: Postcards I (London Palladium and UK tour); Jesus from Morocco, Dialogues des Carmelites, Tales Christ Superstar (UK tour); Dr. Dolittle of Hoffman, and Griselisid, Guildhall School (UK tour); Sunset Boulevard (UK tour); of Music and Drama; La Traviata, Don Cowardy Custard and Closer Than Ever (Royal Giovanni and Stifelio for Opera Holland Academy of Music). Sound design for Les Park, La Traviata and Carmen for Mid Wales Miserables (Danish production), Home Truths Opera, Cavallera Rusticana and Carmen for (UK tour) and productions of Children English Touring Opera; A Midsummer Night’s of Eden, Pippin, , , Dream and The Magic Flute for the British Tommy, , Just So and The Youth Opera. Isabel became resident director Snowman. He has worked with various artists for Nutcracker! in 2003. in concert and has provided sound design for many television, dance and corporate Richard Bullimore (production manager) shows.Richard Brooker’s sound mixing has worked extensively in the theater for the credits also include various arena shows both last 40 years, initially joining the National in the UK and Nigeria. Richard was the Theatre Company at the Old Vic, under production sound supervisor for the Korean the artistic directorship of Laurence Olivier, production of Mamma Mia! and the associate as part of the production office. There he sound designer for Mamma Mia! in Europe. worked on more than 50 productions over a

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DANCERS (Trevor Nunn/) and My Fair Lady (Trevor Nunn and Matthew Bourne); Samuel Archer trained at of she also appeared in a Royal National Performing Arts, where he gained a BA Theatre platform The Dark Lady Of The (Hons) degree. Theatre credits include: For Sonnets (George Bernard Shaw), London’s Adventures in Motion Pictures and New Musical (), Nixon In China Adventures: (National for English National Opera (Mark Morris), Theatre, UK tour and Japan); The Car Man (Christopher Hampson), Die (US tour and Lyon). Other credits include: We Fledermaus for Glyndebourne Festival Opera Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre); Andrew (Stephen Lawless) and most recently Play Lloyd Webber’s 50th Birthday celebration Without Words at the (); Bugsy Malone (Queen’s UK and Japan tours (Matthew Bourne). Theatre); and Oliver! (London Palladium). Ross Carpenter trained at Reading County Kerry Biggin trained at Rambert School School of Performing Arts and trained for three and her stage credits include: for New years at Doreen Bird. Stage credits include: Adventures, Nutcracker! Sadlers Wells (03/04) For New Adventures in Motion Pictures: Japan/Korean tour, Sadlers Wells(02/03) and Nutcracker!, Sadler’s Wells and national tour UK tour; for Michael Clark, Oh My Goddess, (2002-03), Sadler’s Wells and Far East tour Sadler’s Wells and international tour, Before (2003-04), The Car Man, tour of Japan; a tour and After: The Fall, Sadlers Wells, UK and of Japan with Sophie Guillem; Atlas in C’est international tours; for Dance Magique and performances on the main stage Company, Dance, UK tour; for Robert for Disney Cruise Line; Cinderella, Lyceum North and Bill Alexander, The Snowman, Theatre, Sheffield;42 nd Street, UK tour; Little Birmingham Rep, and Tokyo, Bob in Smile, Studio Theatre. Japan; Millennium Dome Central Arena show and Opening Ceremony. Kerry has also Gareth Charlton has just graduated from danced for Phoenix Dance, JazzXchange and the London Studio Centre, most recently Kerry Nicholls among others. appearing as John the Baptist in Godspell. He previously trained at the Janet Marshall Dance Madelaine Brennan trained at The Royal Studios in Cheltenham. He danced with the Ballet School. As a student she performed National Youth Ballet of Great Britain for five with the Royal Ballet in Sleeping Beauty, seasons, where his roles included: Tweedle Cinderella, Swan Lake, and La Bayadere, and Dee in Alice in Wonderland and Badger in with Birmingham Royal Ballet on its tour to Toad, both choreographed by Wayne Sleep. New Zealand. She joined Northern Ballet Theatre under the direction of Christopher Annabelle Dalling trained at Elhurst School. Gable in 1991 and her roles included Nurse Stage credits include: for New Adventures, in Romeo and Juliet, Kitri in , Nutcracker!, Sadler’s Wells and Far East tour Sister in Cinderella and Cathy Earnshaw in (2003-04). Also, The Beautiful and the Damned The Brontes. She left as a soloist in 1997 to (World Premiere, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), freelance. In the same year she toured with directed by Phil Wilmott; Copacabana Wayne Sleep’s World of , (Scandavian Premiere), choreographed by working with William Kemp and Christopher Craig Revel Horwood; My One and Only Hampson. (), directed by Loveday Since then she has appeared in the Royal Ingram; The Snowman (Peacock Theatre); National Theatre productions of Oklahoma! Mrs. Portipar in Joseph and the Amazing

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Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK tour); Darren Ellis trained at the Rambert Dance in The Fairy Queen at the City of London School and the Laban Centre. Theatre credits Festival; a principal in Lido La Tournee include: For Adventures in Motion Pictures, (European tour); Ursula in Sweet Charity Swan Lake (Original Cast, West End and (English Theatre and Queens Theatre); and Broadway) and Cinderella (West End). Other Dorm, choreographed by Lynne Seymour. performance credits include: Blueprint Dance

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Company; Page Dance Theatre (Frieburg, institutions, and is a freelance faculty member ); Emily Burns; David Massingham; at The Place Evening School. Small Bones Dance Company; Janet Smith and Dancers; Jeremy James Dance Company; Matt Flint trained at Laine Theatre Arts. Mark Bruce Dance Company; Random Theatre credits include, , playing the Dance Company; and the Snag Project (Sarah role of Chuck (Queens Theatre); Throughly Warsop and Jo Fong). Opera credits include: Modern Millie (); eautyB The Trojans (English National Opera) and and the Beast (UK tour); and Saturday Night Aida (). Fever in Cologne.

Vicky Evans trained at London Contemporary Adam Galbraith trained at London Contem- Dance School, BA (Hons), Contemporary porary Dance School (1996-99) and received Dance Studies. She joined Matthew Bourne’s a BA (Hons). His credits include, for New Adventures in Motion Pictures in 1995 and Adventures: Nutcracker/Gobstopper in became a part of New Adventures in 2002. Nutcracker!, Sadler’s Wells season, national For New Adventures: Licorice Lady and Mrs. and JapanTour (2002-2004). For Adventures Dross/Queen Candy in Nutcracker!, Sadler’s in Motion Pictures: original cast for The Car Wells, UK Tour, Japan and Korea. For Man (UK tour 2000, Old Vic season 2000- Adventures in Motion Pictures: (1996- 2003) 2001, European and US tours 2001-2002, principal role of Lana and Mercedes in the and Japan tour 2002; creating the role of original cast of The Car Man, UK Tour, Old “Hot” Rod); Swan Lake (UK tour 1999-2000, Vic, European, USA and Japanese tours; The West End season and Italian tour 2000); and Prince’s Girlfriend and various other roles in Cinderella (Los Angeles season 1999). Other the original cast of Swan Lake, Sadler’s Wells, credits include: Forza Del Destino and The Two UK tours, West End, Los Angeles, Greek Passion for The Royal Opera at , Dominion season and Korea; R.O.H.; Fairy Queen for English National Stepsister in the original cast of Cinderella, Opera (Coliseum and 2002); West End and Los Angeles. She has been and Peter Pan (King’s Theatre Edinburgh Dance Captain for AMP/New Adventures 2001-2002); Wayne McGregor and David since 1997 on Nutcracker!, The Car Man and Massingham for the National Youth Dance Cinderella, and was Rehearsal Director/Tour Company; Duncan MacFarland for the Blue Manager for Nutcracker! on the recent Japan Delta Dance Company; title role in The Will and Korean tours (2004). She is also joining Rogers Follies; Manact Dance Company and Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake in January Dundee Rep Dance Company. 2005 as Artistic Tour Manager and will be taking the Swan Lake Company to Japan, Paulo Kadow trained with Renato Vieira Korea and ongoing tours during the coming (modern) and Sampaio (ballet). Stage year. Her other stage credits include Duets credits include: for Adventures in Motion for Small Spaces, by Richard Lord (2001); Pictures, Nutcracker!, Sadler’s Wells and

Catherine Ashmore Catherine for the English National Opera, Far East tour (2003-04), Sadler’s Wells and and The Fairy Queen (2001); Carlson Dance national tour (2002-03); original cast of The Company (1994-95); Blow and Three, by Car Man, U.K. tour (2000), Old Vic season Isabel Mortimer at The Place (1997); Phoenix (2000-01), U.S. tour (2001), and Japan tour Dance Company (1996); Toutes Femmes (2002); and Swan Lake, U.K. tour (1999) (1993-94). She teaches for New Adventures, and Dominion season (2000). Other credits The Place and throughout the UK at dance include: Arc Dance Company, London

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(1999); Ballet Schindowsky, Germany (1996- Rachel Lancaster trained at Laban Centre, 97); Plauen Dance Company, Germany BA (Hons) and Advanced Performance (1994-95); Niteroi Ballet, Brazil (1992-93); course. Stage credits include for New Renato Vieira Dance Company (1988-93). Adventures in Motion Pictures: Nutcracker!

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Japanese and Korean Tour (2004), Sadler’s Place Theatre; for New Adventures in Motion Wells Christmas Season (2003), UK Tour Pictures The Car Man,Old Vic and European (2003), Sadler’s Wells Season (2002); original tour (2000-01); Cinderella, West End; Swan cast for The Car Man, UK tour, Old Vic Lake, West End, Los Angeles and Broadway; Season, European and US tours (2000-02); for Jan Push company, Wish I Was Real in Cinderella, Los Angeles season (1999). Other Hamburg (2000); for , credits include Research Project with Protein Romeo and Juliet (1998); and for Images of Dance Company (2004); Jerwood Changing Dance (1994-95). Stages with Protein Dance Company (2003); First Person in It’s Only a Game Show (2002); Anjali Mehra trained at Central School In the Face of a Stranger (1998-99); Déjâ Deux of Ballet. Stage credits include for New (1997-98); Catherine Seymour (1997-98); Adventures, Sugar in Nutcracker! (Sadlers Transitions Dance Company (1996); and Wells 2003-04 and Far East tour); for National Youth Dance Company (1994). New Adventures in Motion Pictures, the Other credits include work as a freelance Romanian, Italian Spanish and German teacher for Richard Alston Dance Company Princesses in Swan Lake, Korean tour (2003), (1998-2002) and Shobana Jeyasingh (1999). West End, UK and European tour (1999- 00); Faust (Royal Opera House September James Leece is originally from Aberdeen 2004); as a member of the original cast of and trained at Royal Ballet Upper and Lower Bombay Dreams (2002-03); Push for Ballet Schools, and London Studio Centre. His Soul; Mrs Cratchit in stage credits include: For New Adventures with Christopher Hampson; performances in Motion Pictures, Nutcracker!, Sadler’s with Random Dance Company with Wayne Wells and national tour (2002-03), Sadler’s McGregor (2001); London City Ballet (2001); Wells and Far East tour (2003-04); Swan and a UK tour with British Gas Ballet Central Lake European tour; The Car Man, Old Vic (1999). Her cheoreography credits include: season, European and U.S. tours; and Spitfire Diamond Dreams for Arghav Diamonds – September 11th Charity Gala. Other credits (2003); Fusion for Resolution (2002); Design include: SFA International Jazz Dance Festival for Dance (1998); and choreography for the in SOL; Singin’ in the Rain, and Oliver! Central School of Ballet (1997). Leicester Haymarket; Spirit of the Dance, U.S. tour and ; Red Cross Charity Etta Murfitt (associate director) trained Gala, Grosvenor House; My One and Only, at London Contemporary Dance School. Piccadilly Theatre; and Dance Umbrella Gala Restaged New Adventures production Performance, Sadler’s Wells; of Swan Lake for 10th anniversary season 2004-05. Stage credits for New Adventures Michela Meazza’s training includes the Ad- include, associate director and recreated the vanced Professional course with Aterballetto role of Clara in Nutcracker!, Sadler’s Wells and Company (1995); London Studio Dance Far East tour (2003-04), Sadler’s Wells and Centre (1993-94); Gulbenkian Course (1999); national tour (2002-03); associate director and Accademia Domenichino Da Piancenza. and created the role of Rita in the original

Catherine Ashmore Catherine Stage credits include for New Adventures, cast of The Car Man, Old Vic Season (2000), Play Without Words, Royal National Theatre U.K. and European tours, Los Angeles and (2002) and tour of Japan; The Cholmondeleys Japan (2000-02); rehearsal director for the 3, The Place and U.K. tour (2001-02); original production of Swan Lake and Sadler’s Famous for 15 Minutes, choregraphed by Wells season (1995), and U.K. tour; and roles Robin Dingemans for The Place Prize at the including French and Spanish Princesses and

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the Queen in the West End, Los Angeles, Ballet: Programmes Re: Baroque and White Broadway, London Dominion seasons, Passion, a soloist in Follia (choreographed by (1996-00); rehearsal director and created Nicolo Fonte) and Les Noces (choreographed the role of Judy in original cast of Cinderella, by Organ Andersson). For the Royal Opera West End and Los Angeles seasons (1997-98); House, Faust (2004), Boris Godunov (2003), created parts in Highland Fling (1994-95), The Queen of Spades (2002), Attila (2002) The Infernal Galop,and The Percys of Fitzrovia and Boulevard Solitude (2001). Other credits (1993); Clara in the original production of include: for Xavier Perez-Mas, Tsunami; for Nutcracker!, Opera North (1992) and Sadler’s Arthur Pita, Choredrome (2003); for Kirsty Wells (1993-94); Deadly Serious (1992); and Simmonds, Decluttered in Atelier (2002); Town and Country (1991). Other stage credits for Matthew Bourne and Walt Disney, The include: Images Dance Theatre (founding Little Mermaid workshop (2002); for Wayne member and performer 1985 - 90); Scottish Macgregor and Random Dance Company, Dance Theatre (1986); Arc Dance Company video for Project C.O.K.E, (2001); and for City (1991); she created the role of Netta in This is of London Ballet, Amasterau, choreographed the Picture (1995) with Aletta Collins Dance by Cathy Marston (2001). Company, for Dance Umbrella. Choreography credits include: Le Nozze Neil Penlington (rehearsal director) trained di Figaro, directed by Martin Lloyd-Evans at ALRA and London Studio Centre. for Opera Holland Park (2004); The Way Stage credits include: for New Adventures, of the World, directed by Selina Cadell at PlayWithout Words, Japan 2004; Cupid and Wilton’s Music Hall (2003); Re-staging Fritz in Nutcracker!, Japan and Korea Tour AMP’s Nutcracker! (Sadlers Wells, 1994); 2004, Sadler’s Wells 2002-03 and UK tour. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (with Dawn For Adventures in Motion Pictures, Angelo, French and director Matthew Francis), Dino, Rocco and Vito in the original cast Albery Theatre (2001); The Lost Child, of The Car Man, UK tour, Old Vic Season, Unicorn at the (1997); for US and European tours; GI and Elliot in Aletta Collins, restaged Arena Stage Carmen, the original cast of Cinderella, Piccadilly Australia (1989-90). Other credits include: Theatre, Los Angeles; Swan Lake, London Etta teaches throughout the U.K. and abroad season, Los Angeles and Broadway seasons; for dance companies and dance institutions, and Robbie and James in Highland Fling, as well as being a freelance faculty member The Place Theatre and UK tour. Other credits at the London Contemporary Dance School include for David Toguri, Rodgers and and Young Place. Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Japan; Les Troyens, La Scala, Milan; and Aida, Earl’s Court. He Gemma Payne trained with Central School of is an A-Level education leader for Swan Lake Ballet (1997 – 99); Royal Ballet Upper School and has taught various dance workshops on (1996 – 97); as a Royal Ballet Senior Associate Swan Lake, Cinderella, The Car Man and (1994 – 96); and with Joanne Bond and Nutcracker! Chris Campbell Welch. Stage credits include: for New Adventures, Sugar in Nutcracker!, Lee Smikle trained at Thamesdown Dance Sadler’s Wells (2003-04); Marshmallow, School and Rambert School, where he also Cupid and Sugar in Nutcraker!, Sadler’s performed with National Youth Dance Wells and UK tour (2002); for Adventures Company and Moving Visions. Performance in Motion Pictures, The Car Man, Japan tour credits include: for New Adventures, (2002) and the German Princess in Swan Nutcracker!, Sadler’s Wells and national tour Lake, European tour (2000). For Gothenburg (2002-03), Sadler’s Wells and Far East tour

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(2003-04). For New Adventures in Motion includes Dansarena Studio and The Royal Pictures, Spitfire charity gala, Old Vic; original Ballet Upper School. Stage credits include: cast of The Car Man, UK tour, Old Vic season, for New Adventures, Nutcracker!, Sadler’s European tour, LA season, and US tour; and Wells and Japan/Korean tour (2003-04). Swan Lake, UK tour, Dominion season. Also, soloist dancer with Tanzwerk Nurnberg, Other credits include: for Glyndebourne Ballett Dortmund, Rotterdam Dance Festival Opera, Iphigénie en Aulide, and Company, Phoenix Dance, The Ensemble Carmen; for Dance, Dansconnect — Group, Tartan Chameleon and Scottish a performance-led dance education project; Dance Theatre, where she performed work Belinda King Dance Company, Portugal and by, among others, William Forsyth, Bill T. Madeira. Teaching credits include devising Jones and Steven Petronio. Smillie is also a and teaching workshops aimed at 10- to 14- qualified teacher, working with amateur and year-olds during Dansconnect, teaching and professional dancers of all ages. creating a piece for Swindon Youth Group, and educational workshops for Nutcracker! Mireille Tolmer was born in Thailand and He is also a qualified gym instructor. trained at Joanna Priest Arts Centre, Sheila Laing Dance Centre and Central School Mikah Smillie was born in Glasgow. Training of Ballet. Stage credits include: for New

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Adventures, Princess Sugar and Marshmallow World Within for Ijad Dance Company, and for Nutcracker! (London, Korea and Japan Nutcracker! UK and Japan 2003-04 season. (2003-04); five years with Northern Ballet She has recently recorded flute for the Theatre, where her roles included Lady soundtrack to the film A Man and his Dog. Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Vampire Woman in Dracula, Lucille in Jekyll and Hyde, Stella in Alan Vincent trained at London Studio A Streetcar Named Desire, Suzuki in Madame Centre. Stage credits for New Adventures Butterfly, Ellen in Wuthering Heights, La include: (2002-2004) original cast of Fille Miserable in Beauty and the Beast, Solo Play Without Words, the role of ‘Speight’ Girl in Requiem, The Hunchback of Notre at National Theatre, UK and Japan tours; Dame, Cinderella, Carmen, A Simple Man, principal role of Nutcracker at Sadlers Jazz Concerto, the Tavern pas de deux in A Wells, UK tour; Spitfire at The Old Vic. Christmas Carol, the tourist couple in Great For Adventures in Motion Pictures: (1997- Expectations, American in Paris, Bess You is My 2003) principal role of the Swan in Swan Woman, Rhapsody in Blue, My Man’s Gone, Lake, UK, Korea tour; various other roles on Cuban Overture and Girl Crazy in I Got the US Broadway season, including creating Rhythm. the principal role of Luca in The Car Man, Old Vic, UK, European, USA, Japan tours. Mami Tomotani trained at the Martha Gra- Performed Stan and Hero in Cinderella, ham Summer School, New York (1996), West End and LA tours. Other stage credits Shiki Academy of Dramatic Arts (1985), and include: for English National Opera, Kawazoe Ballet School (1978-84). Her stage Trojans, Carmen and The Fairy Queen; for credits include: for Adventures in Motion Royal Opera House, Midsummer’s Marriage Pictures, Marshmallow and Licorice Lady in and Turandot. He has taught performance Nutcracker!, Sadler’s Wells and national tour workshops at Millennium School and “The (2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons); Monica Place” summer intensive. He recently formed in The Car Man, Japan tour (2002); roles his own company, BEA Theatre, with Emily including the Romanian Princess, The Spanish Piercy and Belinda Lee Chapman. Princess, and the Italian Princess in Swan Lake, U.K. tour, Dominion Theatre season, Shelby Williams trained at London and European tour, (1999-00); director Studio Centre, receiving a BA (Hons) in and dancer in Just Feel It, Japan (2002); for Theatre Arts, and Royal Winnipeg Ballet Landestheater Ballet Linz, performed pieces School, Professional Division. Stage credits by Robert Poole, Olga Cobos and Peter include: for Adventures in Motion Pictures, Mika, (2000-01); Alti Dance Festival, Nutcracker!, Sadler’s Wells and national tour Kyoto (1998); for Benolt Manburay, The (2002-03); original cast of The Car Man, Audio Ballerinas Opening Ceremony of NTT, U.K. tour, Old Vic season, European tour, Japan (1997). Choreography credits include: and U.S. tours (2000-01); and Cinderella Prologue of Individuals of Just Feel It (2002), (1999). Other credits include: for Stephen and Alti Dance Festival (1998). Koplowitz, British Library Project, Dance Umbrella (1998); for , Tharp’s Hannah Vassallo trained at Rambert School. 100’s (1998); for Stephan and Julia While at Rambert School: repertoire by Ross Clark, Blue (1998); for Anatasia Lyria, Sxedia McKim with Moving Visions Dance Theatre; Polis Environmental Dance Project (1998); repertoire by Christopher Bruce and Jeremy for Sally Owen, Ian Spink, Michael Popper, James with . Stage Bonnie Oddie, Charlotte Hacker, Rem Lee credits include devising and creating Wicked and Gary Lambert, Intoto Dance (1997);

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Centennial Commonwealth Ceremonies, in (2001); for the Lost Musicals, One Touch of the presence of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth Venus (2000); for Béjart Ballet, Bolero, Sadler’s II (1997); and for Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Wells (2000); and Kirov Ballet Master class, 25th Anniversary Gala (1996). Royal Opera House.

Philip Willingham began his training at The Matthew Winston trained at London Urdang Academy of Ballet and Performing Contemporary Dance School, the Laban Arts and then went on to the Royal Ballet Centre and EDge. Stage credits include: Upper School. During his graduation year he performances with Motionhouse as a member performed with the Royal of Warwickshire Youth Dance Company; in Swan Lake, and Anastasia. On his performances with National Youth Dance graduation he performed the role of The Company, where he has performed The Rake in ’ The Rake’s Progress Skinned Prey by Wayne McGregor; and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The Beginning Again by Sheron Wray. After Since graduating Philip has performed as a graduating with a First from Laban, Matthew soloist with European Ballet in Coppelia and toured nationally and internationally with Cinderella, and with English National Ballet EDge, where credits include Almost by in Romeo and Juliet. His Ben Write, Set and Reset by Trisha Brown, credits include Snowboy, Baby John in Pola Something in my Stomach by Vanessa Hacka, Jones’ West Side Story, and Cameron and performances by Kerry Nichols. Mackintosh’s My Fair Lady at the Royal National Theatre and Theatre Royal, Drury Chihiro Yako trained at Tokyo Musical Lane. Academy, Yo Ballet Academy and the Theatre. Stage credits include: Richard Winsor trained at Central School of Nutcracker! (Sadlers Wells 2002-03 and Far Ballet (1998-2001), and Guildhall School of East tour 2004); Pass by # 1 for the Aoyama Music and Drama (1998-2000). Stage credits Theatre, Tokyo; Urydice at the Hokutopia include: for New Adventures, Tony in Play Theatre, Tokyo; performances as a soloist in Without Words, Royal National Theatre, UK the Arabian Dance and the of Flowers tour 2004, Japan tour 2004; for Adventures in in The Nutcracker. She choreographed Motion Pictures, Lyon, Tokyo, Japan (2002), contemporary jazz pieces for KMA in Nagano and Morco and Chadin in The Car Man, U.S. and taught classical ballet at the Yo Ballet tour, and Los Angeles (2001) Ballet Central Academy. U.K. Tour (2001); Ballet Central UK Tour

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FOR MATTHEW BOURNE’S NUTCRACKER!

Head of Production Meryl Faiers Group Business Affairs Manager Diane Benjamin Associate Producer Douglas McJanet Associate Producer Angela Edwards Accounts Account Department Press and Publicity Ben Chamberlain at Chamberlain AMPR (0207 866 8101) Graphic Design Simon Williams Design Image Photography Chris Nash Production Photography Catherine Ashmore Original Scenery built by Terry Murphy Scenery Cloths Painted by Gordon Aldred Lighting Hire Vari-Lite Europe Ltd Sound Hire Autograph Sound Recording Costumes by Henrietta and Edith Webb, Phil Reynolds, Kate Wyatt, Naomi Issacs, David Plunkett, Amanda Barrow, William Baboo, Fay Fullerton, Suzanne Parkinson, Jill Prentice, Julia Mason and Mein Roberts Hats Sean Barrett Masks and Costumes Props by Ivo Coveney Shoes by Freeds and Lewis Jones at Gamba Wigs by Angela Cobbin and Campbell Young Latex wigs made by Robert Allsopp Facial hair by Charles Fox Make-up supplied by Make-up Forever and Ben Nye Properties and Furniture Specialist props by Souvenir Scenic Studios Honeyrose Products Tom Offin The Roses Florist, Chislehurst Transport G.H. Luckings

MATTHEW BOURNE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING

Nicholas Payne and Opera North for commissioning the 1992 Centenary production of Nutcracker!

All those involved in the 1992 production, especially Martin Duncan, David Lloyd-Jones and the original cast , Hedda Beeby, Meryl Faiers, Angela Edwards, and everyone at ATG

Sally Greene and all at The Old Vic for help and support over the last two years The Friends of New Adventures for funding the three-week Nutcracker Workshop earlier this year and all those performers who took part

For help and support beyond the call of duty… Robert Noble, Peter Wilson, Suzanne Boguzas, Scott Ambler and Etta Murfitt

Nutcracker! is dedicated with love to my Mum and Dad

This production was made possible by a generous donation from The Friends of New Adventures

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THE AMBASSADOR THEATRE GROUP the 30th Anniversary West End version and UK Producers tour of ; Gershwin’s My One and Only; The Mystery of starring Co-founded by Howard Panter and Rosemary in the West End and on Broadway; Squire in 1992, the Ambassador Theatre Group a co-production of Doctor Faustus at The Young (ATG) is currently the second largest theatre group Vic starring ; Shockheaded Peter in the in the West End and separately, the second biggest West End and the first major West End revival and in the UK regions, with a total of 23 venues. Broadway production of Peter Nichols’ classic A ATG is also one of the country’s foremost theatre Day in the Death of Joe Egg starring , producers and has been behind some of the most Victoria and Prunella Scales; the world successful and innovative productions in Britain premiere of Port Authority by Conor McPherson; and internationally. Caryl Churchill’s Far Away, directed by Stephen Daldry in the West End, plus the Royal Court ATG’s impressive portfolio of West End theatres Theatre production ofMouth to Mouth in the West include high profile and historic buildings such End. as the Albery, Comedy, Donmar Warehouse, Duke of York’s, Fortune, New Ambassadors, Other ATG successes include the co-production of Phoenix, Piccadilly, Playhouse (co-ownership and (winner of the 1999 Olivier Award for management of), Trafalgar Studios and Wyndhams. Best New Play) in the West End and on Broadway, ATG’s regional theatres include The Ambassadors Smokey Joe’s Café in the West End and the Olivier Woking encompassing the New Victoria and award-winning Slava’s Snowshow in the West End Rhoda McGaw Theatres and a six-screen cinema and North America, plus the multi award-winning complex; the Theatre Royal, Brighton; the Victoria West End musical, . Concert Hall, Stoke-on-Trent; the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent; ; the ATG also has a series of creative alliances, based in ; , in theatre, but with the potential to form a bridge London; The King’s Theatre in Glasgow and, most between media. These unique initiatives include recently, the and New a co-production company with Trademark Wimbledon Studio, London. Films, makers of , and a rights packaging and production enabling joint venture Current and recent ATG co-production successes company ScreenStage with ITV plc, which has in London include Simply Heavenly at the Trafalgar made five TV films to date. In addition, ATG has Studios (a co-production with the Young Vic); also formed a co-producing and commissioning Sweeney Todd (a co-production with AKA and alliance with the acclaimed Young Vic Theatre Maidstone Productions); Matthew Bourne’s Company, and has a wholly owned subsidiary Nutcracker! (two London seasons, as well as UK and company Sonia Friedman Productions, led by worldwide tours); Stephen Poliakoff’s Sweet Panic producer Sonia Friedman, whose co-productions starring Jane Horrocks and Victoria Hamilton; include The Woman in White with Shared Experience’s After Mrs Rochester; Edward and Michael Crawford; Endgame with Michael Hall’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Richard Eyre’s Gambon and Lee Evans; Sexual Perversity in and the Royal National Theatre’s multi-award Chicago with Matthew Perry and Minnie Driver; winner Vincent in Brixton (in the West End, on Franco Zefferelli’s Absolutely! (perhaps) with Joan Broadway and on UK tour); Noises Off (a co- Plowright; Ragtime; with Sean Bean; Up production with the Royal National Theatre which For Grabs with Madonna and On An Average Day was a recent Broadway hit); Christopher Hampton’s with Woody Harrelson and Kyle McLachlan, all new version of starring Kristin Scott in London. Thomas; Tom Courtenay in Pretending To Be Me;

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INCIDENTAL COLMAN company for singers and musicians, and has Producer expanded into various entertainment business fields including making films, TV commercials Incidental Colman is the producing company and programs, managing actors and musicians, owned by Rupert Gavin and Dan Colman. producing music-related projects and performing Incidental Colman have produced or co- arts of all genres, and so on. produced creative and exciting shows such as The Theatre department of Horipro produces Slava’s Snowshow, Noises Off, The Right Size and and co-produces a wide array of plays and musicals, Shockheaded Peter. Other recent successes include and presents them both in Japan and abroad. What the Night Is For starring ; HoriPro produces Japanese-language versions of Mathew Bourne’s Nutcracker! at Sadler’s Wells Broadway and West End shows in order to make and Pretending to be Me starring Tom Courtenay. these marvellous theatrical experiences as accessible Their productions and co-productions have been as possible to Japanese audiences. The productions awarded the 1998, 1999, and 2001 Olivier Awards include A Little Night Music (1999), Jekyll & Hyde for Best Entertainment. Between them they have (2001), Stones in His Pocket (2002), Noises Off produced shows extensively throughout the UK, (2002), Elephant Man (2003), The Miracle Worker in the West End, at international arts festivals and (2000), and Urinetown, The Musical (2003). on Broadway. The Japanese-language version of the Broadway MATTHEW MITCHELL LTD musical Peter Pan is presented every summer for Producer nearly 25 years. HoriPro also has a tradition of sharing Japanese Recent Matthew Mitchell productions or co- theatre and talent with the world. For example, productions include: The Solid Gold Cadillac HoriPro has been privileged to have a long and (); Calico (Duke of York’s); productive relationship with the great Japanese Endgame (Albery Theatre); Coyote on a Fence stage director, Yukio Ninagawa. His production (); Sweet Panic (Duke of Yorks), of Shintoku-Maru (1997) and Modern Noh Plays Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Playhouse), The Price (2001) were invited to in London (Apollo), After Mrs. Rochester (Duke of York’s), by arrangement with Ltd.; Macbeth Noises Off (Piccadilly), A Midsummer Night’s was invited to BAM in New York in 2002; and Dream (Comedy), Vincent in Brixton (Playhouse), Modern Noh Plays will be invited to Lincoln Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! (Sadler’s Wells and Center in New York next year. His Shakespeare national tour), The Rocky Horror Show (Queen’s production of Pericles was invited to National and national tour), Three Sisters with Kristen Scott Theatre in London last March by arrangement Thomas (Playhouse), Eye Contact (The Riverside with Thelma Holt Ltd.; it received critical acclaim Studios), The Maiden’s Prayer (The Bush), The there. Also, Ninagawa directed an English-speaking Next Door (The Latchmere), Acis And Galatea and Shakespeare production of with Michael Suicide In B Flat (both BAC). Freelance production Maloney in the title role in the UK, which started credits include the reopening of the Cambridge its tour there at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth in Arts Theatre, The Cambridge National September. Tour (1994), Griff Rhys Jones’ “Another Bloody HoriPro has also established itself as a premier Gala” directed by Sam Mendes, Stephen Fry’s presenter of English-language theater. It acquired Sexpo ’93 and a tribute to George “Dadie” Rylands the privilege of presenting Carmen Jones (1995), at the . Chicago (1999 and 2003), Cabaret (2001) Bring Current projects include the transfer of the in ‘Da Noise Bring in ‘Da Funk (2003) and Grease Sheffield Crucible’s acclaimed production of Don (2003). Also, Company came Carlos to the in January 2005. to Tokyo to perform its acclaimed production Matthew is also an elected politician, represent- of Richard II and Coriolanus (2000), featuring ing Warwick Ward on Westminster City Council. Ralph Fiennes, in association with HoriPro. This year HoriPro invited Mathew Bourne’s two HORIPRO INC productions, Nutcracker! and Play Without Words, Producer as well as Royal Shakespeare Company’s Othello, HoriPro was established in 1960 as a management with Sir Antony Sher in the title role.

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FOR NEW ADVENTURES

Directors Matthew Bourne, Robert Noble

Artistic Director Matthew Bourne

Associate Artists Scott Ambler, and Etta Murfitt

New Adventures was launched in 2002 to create and perform both large- and small-scale work by Matthew Bourne. Its first work, Play Without Words, premiered in August 2002 as part of the National Theatre’s Transformation Season. It went on to win two Olivier Awards and returned to the National Theatre’s repertory before undertaking a major UK tour and seasons in Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, and .

Nutcracker!, in association with ATG and Sadler’s Wells, was the company’s second new production in 2002. It has played two wildly successful Christmas seasons at Sadler’s Wells (2002 and 2003) and toured extensively in the UK, Japan and Korea. This Christmas it makes its US debut at Cal Performances in Berkeley, California. The production was also filmed by the BBC1 for a Christmas showing in 2003.

Future productions for the company include a new production of Matthew Bourne’s “Romantic wee ballet,” Highland Fling, loosely based on , which will tour extensively in the UK and Japan in Spring 2005, including a week of performances at New Adventures home-base, Sadler’s Wells.

New Adventures 2004/2005 Season Highland Fling - UK and Japanese Tour Nutcracker! - US Tour Play Without Words - New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Moscow Swan Lake - UK , Japanese and Korean Tour

CREATIVES ARTISTIC Madelaine Brennan Matthew Bourne MANAGEMENT Ross Carpenter Lez Brotherston Andrew Corbett Gareth Charlton Paule Constable Vicky Evans Joe Colosanti Terry Davies Isabel Mortimer Francesco D’Astici Martin Duncan Neil Penlington Annabelle Dalling Rick Fisher Leigh Daniels Paul Groothius PERFORMERS Lauriane Delteil Howard Harrison Scott Ambler Ben Dixon Christopher Shutt Sam Archer Pia Driver Brett Morris Ashley Bain Darren Ellis Anthony Ward Rain De Rye Candice Evans Barrett Vicky Evans ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES Kerry Biggin Matthew Flint Scott Ambler Emma Bown Valentina Formenti Etta Murfitt Tracy Bradley Peter Furness

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Adam Galbraith Adam Rutherford Hugh Wilkinson Glenn Graham Lee Smikle Justin Woodward Simon Humphrey Mikah Smillie Sophia Hurdley Irad Timberlake COMPANY MANAGERS Hendrick January Jose Maria Tirado Charles Evans Paulo Kadow Noi Tolmer Simon Lacey Nik Kafetzakis Mami Tomotani Roger Richardson Simon Karaiskos Nicola Tranah Chris Keerie Hannah Vassallo STAGE MANAGEMENT Will Kemp Alan Vincent David Curl Steve Kirkham Shaun Walters Lisa Dearnley Rachel Lancaster Ewan Wardrop Emily Ellsworth James Leece Neil Westmoreland Sian Evans Cody Choi Ka Lok Shelby Williams Cat Fiabane Christopher Marney Simon Williams Emma Frith Kirsty Mather Philip Willingham Jakki Julnes Michaela Meazza Richard Winsor Helen Keelan Anjali Mehra Matthew Winston Marina Kilby Elizabeth Mischler Chihiro Yako Chris King Alan Mosley Karen Szameit Etta Murfitt MUSICAL Pip Thomas Eddie Nixon DIRECTORS Ian Wheatstone Michael Haslam Dougie Wilson Oxana Panchenko Brett Morris Gemma Payne Ben Pope PHYSIOTHERAPISTS Neil Penlington Duncan Ashby Ava Katics Gavin Persand Clive Dunstall Nikki Oxford Emily Piercy Tim Harries Jason Piper Sarah Homer ASSISTANT TO Sam Plant Mike Lovatt MATTHEW BOURNE Maryam Pourian Giles Rimmer Suzanne Boguzas Heather Regis Duncan Steve Rossell David Rhys Pat White

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: New Adventures Sadler’s Wells Theatre Rosebery Avenue London EC1R 4TN Phone/Fax 020 7863 8078 Email - [email protected]

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