(Chicago,
November 1999) The
Joffrey Ballet of Chicago’s annual Nutcracker
has become a Chicago family holiday tradition in more ways than one… In
addition to hundreds of thousands of families who have made a tradition of
coming to see Robert Joffrey’s The
Nutcracker, this year, twelve
families are carrying on the tradition of having siblings performing in The Nutcracker. Thirty-one
performances of The Nutcracker, sponsored by Chicago Tribune, will
be performed by The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago
at the historic Auditorium Theater, 50 East Congress Parkway, November
26 – December 26, 1999.
Gerald
Arpino, Founder and Artistic Director of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, is
pleased to announce that the thirty-three dancers from The Joffrey Ballet
of Chicago, will be joined by four seasonal dancers and ten apprentices,
as well as 118 local young dancers representing 39 dance schools.
The
young dancers representing more than 39 area dance schools will dance
throughout the production, including the roles of “Guests” in the
Party Scene; “The Second
Battalion of Mice,” “Cavalry Mice” and “Soldiers,” from the
Magical Battleground Scene, as well as “Dolls Under The Tree.”
In the scene from the Land of The Snow, they are “Snow Trees”
and in Act two the young dancers become “Mother Ginger’s Polichinelles.” Among these young dancers (See attachment for complete list)
are 4 young dancers who are in wheelchairs.
And of these 118 children we have 12 sets of sisters including one
family that has three girls in this production.
The
performance schedule will be as follow:
7:30 p.m. on Fridays (except Fri. Dec.24 at 1 p.m.), 2 p.m. and
7:30 p.m. on Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Sundays and Tuesday Dec. 14 and Dec. 21
at 2 and 7:30 p.m., Wed. Dec. 15 and Dec. 22 at 2 and 7:30 p.m., Thursday
Dec. 16 at 7:30 p.m. and Thurs. Dec. 23 at 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Tickets
for The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago’s NUTCRACKER are on sale at the
Auditorium Theatre box office and all Ticketmaster
outlets. Prices range from $8 to $75.
Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more at selected
performances. To charge tickets by phone, call (312) 902-1500.
For group information call
The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago (312) 739-0120, ext. 33 or The Auditorium
Theatre (312) 922-2190 ext. 5.
A
portion of the proceeds benefits Chicago Tribune Charities, a fund of the
McCormick Tribune Foundation. The
fund supports literacy and employment programs across Chicagoland.