Matthew Bourne's "Nutcracker" for New Adventures is set to reconquer the London Christmas dance market. It plays at Bromley's Churchill Theatre from Monday 11th to Saturday 16th November, 2002 and at Sadler's Wells from 20 November 2002 - 25 January 2003 (phew that's a lot of Nuts!).
Full details here for the runs at:
Churchill Theatre, Bromley Sadler's Wells Here is the
casting information courtesy of Sadler's Wells). Matthew Bourne's regulars are well to the fore and who could argue with that when they perform his style so well:
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CLARA: Etta Murfitt, Valentina Formenti, (Shelby Williams)
NUTCRACKER BOY: Alan Vincent, Adam Galbraith, (Richard Winsor)
SUGAR/PRINCESS SUGAR: Saranne Curtin, Michela Meazza, (Belinda Lee Chapman)
FRITZ/PRINCE BON BON: Ewan Wardrop, Neil Penlington, (Philip Willingham)
DR. DROSS/KING SHERBERT: Scott Ambler, James Leece, (Ewan Wardrop)
MRS. DROSS/QUEEN CANDY:Emily Piercy, Isabel Mortimer, (Rachel Lancaster)
CUPIDS: Valentina Formenti and Neil Penlington, Shelby Williams and Lee Smikle, (Gemma Payne and Philip Willingham)
KNICKERBOCKER GLORY: Arthur Pita, Paulo Kadow, (Ross Carpenter)
GOBSTOPPER BOYS: Adam Galbraith, James Leece and Lee Smikle, Philip Willingham, Ross Carpenter and Simon Wakefield, (Alan Vincent and Richard Winsor)
LICORICE ALLSORTS: Vicky Evans, Richard Winsor and Paulo Kadow, Mami Tomatani, Simon Wakefield and Aaron Sillis, (Kerry Biggin and Arthur Pita)
MARSHMALLOW GIRLS: Michela Meazza, Belinda Lee Chapman, Shelby Williams, Rachel Lancaster and Mami Tomatani, Gemma Payne, Sophia Hurdley, Kerry Biggin, Vicky Evans and Rachel Lancaster, (Emily Piercy, Saranne Curtin and Etta Murfitt)
HUMBUG BOUNCER: Ross Carpenter, Ewan Wardrop, James Leece
NOTES: The performers in bold are the First Cast and will perform those roles at Bromley and until the Press Night (November 26th) at Sadlers Wells.
The Second Cast will first perform their roles on Saturday 7th December at the Matinee Performance. They will continue to perform those roles twice a week from that date onwards
Those cast in brackets will perform if necessitated by illness or injury.
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I have very happy memories of this show when it was at Sadler's Wells about 8 years ago, in an earlier version. It was great fun with touches of sadness and I can't wait for the new one.
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