Choreographer sees Nutcracker as complete entertainment

Sure as their Sugar Plum Fairy, Alberta Ballet will be performing Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker 25 times this holiday season, with shows in Edmonton, Calgary, Victoria and Vancouver.
Sporting a cast of 32 dancers, six more trainees, another 60 children (as young as eight years) recruited in each city to play the mice, soldiers, rats, party kids and pages, and different orchestras, it’s splendid entertainment for family audiences and a cash cow for the dance company.
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