The nutcracker

Resource Information

The work The nutcracker represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Hamilton East Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The nutcracker

Statement of responsibility

Jodav Productions, Inc. ; a Mikhail Baryshnikov productions ; The American Ballet Theatre directed by Lucia Chase, Oliver Smith ; music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ; director, Tony Charmoli ; producer-writer, Yanna Kroyt Brandt

Title variation

Baryshnikov's The nutcracker

Creator

• Nutcracker (Choreographic work : Baryshnikov)

Contributor

• American Ballet Theatre
• Jodav Productions
• Kultur Video
• Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948-
• Brandt, Yanna
• Charmoli, Tony
• De la Pena, George
• Kirkland, Gelsey
• Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893

Subject

• Ballets -- Television adaptations
• Children's dreams -- Drama
• Filmed ballets
• Nonfiction television programs
• Nutcrackers (Implements) -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Filmed ballets
• Nonfiction television programs
• Television adaptations

Language

eng

Summary

The original story has been altered. At a Christmas party, Clara is presented with the elegant Nutcracker prince by her doting godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer. A drunken male guest breaks it, and Clara is devastated. That night, Clara dreams about the Nutcracker prince: he comes to life, fights off the Rat King and his minions, and takes her to his kingdom. There she is royally entertained, and they dance together. Shy and diffident Clara longs to remain in the dream world--safe on the brink of adulthood--but her love for her godfather and her family draw her back into the waking world, where adulthood and real romance await her

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Production designer, Boris Aronson ; costume designer, Frank Thompson ; director of photography, Larry Boelens ; conductor, Kenneth Schermerhorn ; choreography for "Snowflake" waltz by Vasily Vainonen ; videotape editors, Gary Princz, Max Curtis

Dewey number

792.8/42

PerformerNote

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gelsey Kirkland, Alexander Minz, Gayle Young, Sallie Wilson, Warren Conover, Gregory Osborne, Rebecca Wright, George De La Pena, Marcos Paredes; featured soloists: Cynthia Harvey, Jolinda Menendez, Rodney Gustafson, Charles Maple, Eric Nesbitt, Clark Tippet, Hilda Morales, Kirk Peterson, Aurea Hammerli, Roman Jasinski, Nanette Glushak, Narie Johansson, Victor Barbee, Richard Schafer; narrator, Norman Rose

Runtime

78

Series statement

The Baryshnikov collection

Target audience

general

Technique

live action