When I think of the first time I saw the Nutcracker I remember it to be very large and new and exciting for myself. My grandmother took me to see it when I was about 5 and it showed at the Pittsburgh Theatre with a sold out jam packed crowd. It was good to see the performance again at the Steele Auditorium on the half attended Friday and Saturday shows. In my opinion the theatre is a little bit outdated, and needs work. The Lights look pretty good, but the walls and sound system does not look or sound too well. I suggest putting money into paint. The Lights hushed low, little kid’s wrestling in their seats to see the stage. The Curtains Open to 2 kids collecting money, where the couples are introduced as they are on their way to the mansion. Each Couple are dressed in what seems to be their Sunday’s best. The skim raises, and you a luxurious mansion all decorated for Christmas, with stockings hung, and tree lit. The kids enjoy their gifts with excitement on their face. With the look of snow falling in the background and the atmosphere of a nice warm holiday cheer. Everyone is all nice and friendly, even the mysterious Drosselmeyer. The couples dance with ritual dancing styles. When they switch to the next scene the tree grow, whic
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The shoe hitting the Rat King killed him. Sure we may not be able to taste the sugar plums with are own tongue, but we can imagine it. I would like to say that the death of the rat king was not that great. This and other dances should have been shortened. The chorography though needed to be better, by adding exciting dance moves, and more powerful, not traditional, style of ballet. The one part where Andrew Drost dances with the young lady, and then they come back out for a solo a piece was not needed. After a lot of ballet is performed to an audience it becomes repetitive to them, and then they start to bore, and only pay attention when a big lift is performed. When you combine all those features into one, you have a very special performance. A shoe? A shoe? The big and mighty Rat King killed by a Shoe? I don’t think so. I indeed would like to point out that though minor flaws, the musical ballet, brought back many memories from years ago when I saw the sugar plum fairy for the first time. The presents are taken away, which I believed needed a black out to do this, it looked a bit tacky without it. (audiences) To make an audience feel and appreciate the performance you have to live and adapt. With a performance that is no voice but a lot of dancing, you need to insert more of the German type of dances to excite the crowd, not ballet, after ballet, after ballet dance. I heard people laugh at it, like it was a joke. Now when we go to the next scene where the dancers come on and dance for the girl, I have to say by far this was drug out too far, and the costumes were not great.
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