If you are a ballet lover, use Twitter and don’t yet follow the New York Times’s Alastair Macaulay, you really should. His timeline is a witty mix of ballet facts and observations, and world views and opinions.
He has probably seen more productions of The Nutcracker than any other living soul, so who better to provide the ‘rules’ for a traditional Nutcracker.
He kicks off with,
Basic rule for traditional “Nutcrackers”: A: Drosselmeyer should only be seen in Act I, Sugar Plum only Act II
which instantly puts a large number of Nutcracker productions into the non-traditional category.
Continue reading Alastair Macaulay’s A-G of Nutcracker rules! at gramilano.