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Toyota Oakdale Theatre
Buckle up – America’s favorite Christmas tradition, Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet is coming to the Toyota Oakdale Theatre on 8 November 2024!
Gather your friends and family and come celebrate the festive season in style with Talmi Entertainment, as they bring the famous Tchaikovsky score to life with an award-winning all-star international cast and a corps de ballet of 40 Vaganova-trained ballerinas and danseurs!
With its technically supreme dancing, historic international theatre traditions, whimsical puppetry, breathtaking acrobatics, lavish costumes, and intricate hand-painted backdrops, Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet promises to be – true to its name – absolutely magical!
Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet also sports a unique dancing program, "Dance With Us", providing thousands of children with the opportunity to dance side-by-side with professionals.
With tickets starting at a mere $72, you cannot afford to miss this wonderful opportunity to experience the marvelous story of love and peace people around the globe have come to love so dearly!
The world-famous, beloved two-act ballet, Nutcracker, with masterful music by Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, needs little introduction. The magical story, set on Christmas Eve, at the foot of a Christmas tree, in the mind of a child – an adaption of E.T.A. Hoffman's short story, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" – has been transporting audiences to a magical universe filled with breathtaking and expressive art for more than a century. With classical favorites such as “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” and “Waltz of the Flowers”, this beautiful ballet has been at the forefront of American Christmas festivities since the 1960s.
Talmi Entertainment's Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet has consistently been on the public's lips – and with record-breaking seasons, sold-out theatres, ocean-transcending all-star casts, stunning visual effects, let alone the world-class dancing, it is little wonder.
Undoubtedly, Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet is bursting with enchantment. From the innovative delivery of a message of universal hope, peace, and understanding transcending all conflict that boils down right down to the nature of the international cast to the combination of Carl Sprague’s superb set design, Roger Titley’s puppetry and mesmerizing skill of cyr wheel artists Alex Oliva and Grzegorz Jastrsebski – audiences are in for a most memorable treat.
Choreographer and ballet master Viktor Davyduik has woven together a wonderful tapestry of classical ballet, visual splendor, acrobatics, and enchanting puppetry to tell the timeless and beloved story of Clara and the Nutcracker Prince. Davyduik masterfully blends classical and contemporary ballet, bringing a freshness to the stage as never seen before.
The principals for the upcoming festive season run of Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet includes award-winning, world-class dancers to the likes of gold medallist Batur Buklu, Karyna Shatkovskaya, and 2022 Honoured Artist of Ukraine, Olena Pecheniuk, as well as award-winner Kazakhstani, Rustem Imangaliyev, among others.
The landmark Toyota Oakdale theatre, located in Wallingford, Connecticut, will be transformed into the foot of a Christmas tree as audiences embark on a magical journey with Clara, the Nutcracker Prince, the Sugar Plum Fairy, Uncle Drosselmeyer and the Mouse King. The amazing domed theatre has a seating capacity of 4,800 and also offers seasonal VIP boxes.
Toyota Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford, Connecticut, 06492, US