FINAL KlezNut shows this weekend!
Ellen Kushner
to W. 76th Street to see "The Klezmer Nutcracker," you've got 2 more
days -- Final Shows are:
Saturday & Sunday, Jan. 2 & 3
11:00 a.m. & 1:00 p.m.
You can see photos from this year's production on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=129885&id=178941137318&ref=mf
THE KLEZMER NUTCRACKER
Book by Ellen Kushner,
based on her book "The Golden Dreydl"
Music by Shirim Klezmer Orchestra
Directed by Linda Ames Key, Choreography by Bethany White
Vital Theatre Company
2162 Broadway, 4th Floor, at 76th Street, on the Upper West Side
TICKETS:
Get tix online at: http://www.vitaltheatre.org
or call Vital: (212) 579-0528
"Friends of Ellen" ticket discount code: EK20
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• Running time?
:55 minutes
• Will there be a production next year?
Reply hazy . . . ask again later!
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'The play scores over more “traditional” nutcrackers in several
important ways...with dance numbers to swinging Klezmer
interpretations of the Tchaikovsky score....More girl-centered than
its Russian counterpart, the play features a plucky heroine who
effects her own (and her dreydl’s) rescue, instead of getting swept up
in a current of male-driven events...The dreydl magically coming to
life is an excellent physical conceit, as the golden-tutued
dancer...acts far more like a dreydl than I ever saw any ballerino act
like a nutcracker!' -- Show Business Weekly