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[housewolf]

1. Oh gosh! I've been watching Nutcracker performances all week long on Ovation

and look, here's another one!

Good think I like the music (well, most of it anyway)

Thanks for the post.

[pokerfan]

2. It's re-airing tonight

or more accurately the wee hours of tomorrow:

Live From Lincoln Center : George Balanchine's The Nutcracker
(First Aired: December 14, 2011)
More than 150 dancers and musicians of the New York City Ballet perform George Balanchine's ``The Nutcracker.''

Sun 12/18
3:00AM-5:00AM

Check your local listings!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. it is a very lush production, if you can stay awake

I also recommend the San Francisco's version The Little Mermaid.

Just in time for the holidays: "Great Performances" cooks up a special feast from the San Francisco Ballet of an evening-length work by visionary Hamburg Ballet Director John Neumeier based on Hans Christian Andersen's beloved "The Little Mermaid."
All well and good, but only if you're looking for a dark, postmodern alternative to sugarplum fairies and the Land of Sweets: Neumeier's "Mermaid," airing Friday, is about as far from the Disney animated film as Santa Claus is from Rasputin.
Yes, there is a little mermaid who saves a drowning prince, falls in love with him, and makes a deal with the Sea Witch to gain a pair of legs so she can pursue him on land. But there is also a complete parallel plot involving Andersen himself, known as the Poet, who pines for the prince as much as the little mermaid does. In addition to obsessive, stalker love, the ballet drips with the themes of revenge, murder, sexual repression and tragedy.
Ho, ho, ho.
The timing may seem a bit off, but the ballet is worth a look, even if its many parts don't always fit together. Created for the Royal Danish Ballet in 2005 and given its U.S. premiere by San Francisco Ballet in 2010, "Mermaid" was not only choreographed by Neumeier; he also did the ballet's lighting, set and costume design.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/13/DD1K1MBIA4.DTL#ixzz1gr72Q4yv

[pokerfan]

4. I will probably pick up the DVD

Live from Lincoln Center is one of my favorite programs.

[aikoaiko]

5. My parents would take me almost every year to see it at Lincoln Center

And then we'd go see the tree at Rockefeller Center. In the early 60s my parents were regulars at Lincoln Center, but by the 70's and 80's the financial grind of family limited they love of music and ballet considerably.

Balanchine's nutcracker became such a big part of my psyche that I cannot see another production without an automatic response of "they're doing it wrong" before the intellectual side admires the creativity of a different production.