Reception [ change | change source ] The Nutcracker was first produced in 1892 at the Mariinsky Theatre, St.

From there it played to Christmas crowds on numerous occasions, delighting audiences with its colourful theatricality and intricate choreography. A pair of sheer nylon wings with a metallic pink trim and white sparkle accents is also included to complete this fabulous ensemble. In 1944 the Nutcracker was staged at the San Francisco Ballet by William Christensen, [19] the 'very first full-length' on Christmas Eve. While Brown never gives his approval to The Nutcracker, he thinks Tchaikovsky did a remarkable job despite the "appalling limitations of the subject.

In the extended novelization of the movie, Sugar Plum has a small fairy named Dew Drop as her accomplice. Plot [ change | change source ] Marius Petipa wrote the libretto for the ballet and designed the dances.

Americans like seeing their children on stage and the story is very much like the rags-to-riches stories Americans love. Tchaikovsky hoped that the children would play the instruments on the stage, but they had difficulty keeping together with the orchestra. She is a bitter and devious fairy who seeks to conquer all Four Realms, using Mother Ginger as the pawn in her schemes. Eventually, Marie decided to leave the Four Realms forever to be with her real human family, leaving the kingdom to be ruled by the other reagents. Despite her evil, at her core, she is essentially a hurt and angry child whose entire actions mirror a child lashing out at their parents for their supposed abandonment, so much that she goes as far as to destroy all her "mother's" creations and even her own "siblings" without any shame or conscience, yet still retaining an intelligence and patience necessary to manipulate events to her choosing.All four realms' people were sad to see Marie go, but while the male regents and Mother Ginger accepted this change, Sugar Plum secretly felt hurt and betrayed by Marie and decided enact vengeance by conquering all the Realms by using Marie's device to create an army of unstoppable tin soldiers. However, Clara, in case Sugar Plum refused to stop her intentions, revealed that she already reprogrammed the machine into zapping Sugar Plum, who is turned back into a lifeless porcelain doll as punishment for her crimes. So, I began to think about how we could present Peter’s choreography at its best for today’s audience – and the idea of having the production redesigned was born out of that. The wings are spectacular with lots of details including a stunning pattern in silver glitter and a flower decoration at the centre. She then decided that it was time to take over the Four Realms as its new Queen and rebuild them in her own image to alleviate her pain.