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Clara finds her string with her name on it, signifying her gift, and follows it into a forest in a parallel world where she sees the key. Before she can grab it, a mouse snatches it. Unable to reach the mouse, which crosses a frozen-over river, Clara approaches Captain Philip Hoffman the Nutcracker. He leads her across the bridge into the Fourth Realm, but they are unable to obtain the key from the mice. Captain Philip then guides Clara to the palace, where she meets three regents
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. Her character as an elderly woman was portrayed by Ellen Burstyn, who had played her grandmother the previous year in "Wish You Well". She provided the voice of Celestine in the English dub of "Ernest & Celestine" (2012), Violet in "The Boxcar Children" (2014) and The Little Girl in "The Little Prince" (2015). In July 2016, it was announced that Foy would play the lead role of Clara in the film "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms".
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soldiers into life-size soldiers that obey her every command, including the one to attack the Fourth Realm. She then reveals that she had lied about Mother Ginger who, with her people, resisted against Sugar Plum's plan of taking over all four realms in revenge for her perceived abandonment by Marie and that the machine can turn this world's people back into toys as well, intending that to be the fate of the other regents who resist her. Sugar Plum then imprisons Clara, Captain Philip, Shivers, and Hawthorne
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real-life people. Sugar Plum says that she can use this machine to defend the other three realms against Mother Ginger, the Regent of the Fourth Realm, but it needs a key. Clara notices that the machine's keyhole matches that of the one on her egg. Clara and her soldiers head towards Mother Ginger and steal the key the mouse had snatched. However, Clara is disappointed upon discovering that the egg is only a music box. Once Sugar Plum obtains the key, she uses the machine to turn toy
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and helps her to fight off the soldiers. Sugar Plum ultimately traps Mother Ginger and attempts to turn her back into a toy with the machine. However, Clara tinkers with the machine so that it aims at Sugar Plum, which zaps her and turns her back into a porcelain doll as punishment for high treason to the Realms, deactivating her army and saving Mother Ginger. Thanked for restoring peace among the Realms and the implied destruction of Sugar Plum, Clara promises to visit the Realms in the future and returns to London,
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. When Clara opens her egg-shaped music box again, she discovers that the top flips up to reveal a mirror, illustrating that all she needed was herself. She and the other prisoners escape and she and Captain Philip are then greeted by one of Mother Ginger's mice who shows Clara another way into the machine room and guides Captain Philip to Mother Ginger to convince her to help Clara overthrow Sugar Plum. Clara enters the machine room and shuts down the machine while fighting off soldiers. Mother Ginger comes to her aid
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of each land: the Sugar Plum Fairy of the Land of Sweets; Shivers of the Land of Snowflakes, and Hawthorne of the Land of Flowers. They tell Clara that they are at war with the Land of Amusements which they now refer to as "the Fourth Realm". Watching a ballet that tells the story of their world's creation, the Sugar Plum Fairy explains to Clara that her mother created this world as a young girl. She later explains that Marie animated everyone with a machine that can turn toys into
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her father, Clara scurries from the crowd to ask Drosselmeyer how to unlock her egg. He then reveals to Clara that the egg was a creation of his that he gifted to Clara's mother when she was younger, and that her mother's wish was to bestow the gift to her daughter. Returning to the ballroom, where Drosselmeyer announces it being time for the children to receive their gifts, then Clara gets scolded by her father for disobeying him and not dancing with him. They call each other selfish, after which
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where time has hardly passed since she left. She then approaches her father, apologizes for her earlier behavior, and asks him to dance. He accepts, and Clara opens her music box. Clara's father becomes emotional and reveals that the music box's song was the first song that he and Clara's mother had ever danced to. The two then continue to dance throughout the night. Although it was originally announced that Miranda Hart had been cast in the role of The Dew Drop Fairy, she did not appear in
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is a 2018 American fantasy adventure film directed by Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston based on a screenplay by Ashleigh Powell and Tom McCarthy. It is a retelling of E. T. A. Hoffmann's short story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and Marius Petipa's and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker", about a young girl who is gifted a locked egg from her deceased mother and sets out in a magical land to retrieve the key. The film stars Keira Knightley, Mackenzie Foy,
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Matteo Bocelli, and Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite" performed by Lang Lang. "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" grossed $54.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $119.1 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $174 million. "Deadline Hollywood" calculated the film lost the studio $65.8 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues. In the United States and Canada, "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" was released alongside "Nobody's Fool" and "
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enters the room. It is Drosselmeyer, a local councilman, magician, and Clara's godfather. He is also a talented toymaker who has brought with him gifts for the children, including four lifelike dolls who dance to the delight of all. He then has them put away for safekeeping. Clara and Fritz are sad to see the dolls being taken away, but Drosselmeyer has yet another toy for them: a wooden nutcracker carved in the shape of a little man. The other children ignore it, but Clara immediately takes
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growing up. She immediately cheers up when the eccentric Uncle Drosselmeier arrives at their home with special gifts: a fully automated toy castle for everyone, and a Nutcracker for Clara. Upon giving her the Nutcracker, Clara's little brother, Fritz, breaks it while playing with his toy soldiers. Clara is heartbroken, but Drosselmeier promises to fix it for her. To cheer Clara up, Drosselmeier tells her a story about how the Nutcracker came to be the Prince of the Dolls. Once upon a time there were a King
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". There was also a trailer that first came out in theaters with showings of "Incredibles 2", "Ant-Man and the Wasp", and "Christopher Robin" before going online on September 4 of that year. "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" was released on DVD and Blu-ray on January 29, 2019. Blu-ray extras, according to "Media Play News", include featurettes, five deleted scenes, and music videos for "Fall on Me" by Andrea Bocelli featuring
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sorts of perils not found in the original story, or the ballet. There is even a Stone Monster, sent by the Mouse King, that chases Clara and the Nutcracker. Drosselmeyer is not Clara's godfather but her grandfather, and is depicted as being notably grumpy. It is not Drosselmeyer who gives Clara the Nutcracker, but her aunt, and in this version, Clara is an orphan raised by her grandfather. The Nutcracker, rather than becoming a Prince after his victory in battle, must travel to the Sugar Plum
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by Julie Harris as the adult voice of Clara. Directed by Carroll Ballard, it was released nationwide in the U.S. on Thanksgiving Day, in 1986. As in the stage version, Clara was played by a young girl (Vanessa Sharp) during the Christmas party and the Battle with the Mice, and an adult dancer (Patricia Barker) throughout the remainder of the ballet (until Clara awakens from her dream). The Nutcracker and the Nutcracker Prince were also played by two dancers in the film: Jacob Rice before the
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figurines of a ballerina and a sword dancer. The guests are entertained by a trio of masquerade dancers, but Clara is noticeably uncomfortable around Drosselmeyer, who keeps looking at her. Suddenly, a nutcracker drops off the Christmas tree. Clara is amused by the nutcracker and dances happily around the room, but Fritz snatches it away and damages it with a toy sword. Drosselmeyer mends the nutcracker with a handkerchief. As the guests depart, Clara and Fritz are sent off to bed. Near midnight, Clara goes downstairs to find
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Nutcracker, Clara, Pantaloon, Trudy and Marie arrive at the Land of Dolls on flying swans, passing forests of Christmas trees and arriving at a palace made of sweets. Once they are there, Pantaloon is cured. The Nutcracker is given a royal welcome as the Prince of the Dolls amid many cheering toys. Clara shares a romantic dance with the Nutcracker, who takes her by the hand and gets down on one knee. He then asks her to stay with him and be his princess. Clara is ready to embrace
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Russian choreographer Alexander Gorsky, who staged a production of "The Nutcracker" in Moscow in 1919, is credited with the idea of combining Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy's roles (i.e. giving the Fairy's dances to Clara), eliminating the Sugar Plum Fairy's Cavalier, giving the Cavalier's dances to the Nutcracker Prince, and having the roles of Clara and the Nutcracker Prince danced by adults, thereby introducing a reason for a love interest between the two characters that had not been present in the original ballet. In
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, husband-and-wife team Ekaterina Maximova as Maria and Vladimir Vasiliev as the Nutcracker Prince. Another revival of this version was recorded in 1989, starring Natalya Arkhipova as Clara, not Maria as in the earlier version, and Irek Mukhamedov as the Nutcracker Prince (but not the Nutcracker himself; that role is played by a female dancer, Marisa Okothnikova). In this revival the romance between Clara and the Prince is slightly more pronounced than in the earlier Bolshoi version. The entire score is used, which means that
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featured at the 1915 fair. As the festivities draw to a close, the Sugar Plum Fairy and Drosselmeyer grant the young girl Clara her greatest Christmas wish and transform her into a beautiful woman to dance in the arms of her Prince, who is played by an adult in this version. Thus, as in Gorsky's version and Vasily Vainonen's 1934 version, the "Grand Pas de Deux" is danced, not by the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier, but by the Nutcracker Prince and Clara. Also, like
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Mackenzie Christine Foy (born November 10, 2000) is an American actress. She is best known as Renesmee Cullen in the 2012 film "", which earned her a Young Artist Award nomination as Best Supporting Young Actress in a Feature Film, as the young Murphy in the 2014 space epic "Interstellar", for which she received critical acclaim, a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor, and several other awards nominations, and as Clara in Disney’s "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms". Foy
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the final cut of the theatrical release for the film. Maestro Gustavo Dudamel has a brief cameo conducting an orchestra in a shot modeled after the Toccata and Fugue in D minor segment of "Fantasia". On March 4, 2016, the project was first announced, which stated that Walt Disney Pictures was developing "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms", with Lasse Hallström set to direct, continuing its model of developing classic fairy tales. The project is based on "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E. T.
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Balanchine version but of any staging of the ballet. CBS's "Playhouse 90" broadcast a more complete (but still abridged) version of the Balanchine "Nutcracker", narrated by actress June Lockhart, who was then starring as the mother in CBS's "Lassie", in 1958; it was the first "Nutcracker" broadcast in color. There were only four commercial breaks. This television production starred Diana Adams as the Sugar Plum Fairy, the then ten-year-old Bonnie Bedelia as Clara, and Robert
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Because Marie and the Nutcracker / Prince are played by children approximately ten years old in the Balanchine "Nutcracker", no adult romantic interest between them is even implied, although Marie and Drosselmeyer's nephew, who looks exactly like the Prince, are clearly drawn to each other during the Christmas party. However, the 1958 "Playhouse 90" telecast of the Balanchine "Nutcracker", which changed Marie's name back to Clara and stated that the Prince was Drosselmeyer's nephew, had narrator June Lockhart saying at the end that
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The Curse of Clara: A Holiday Tale


The Curse of Clara: A Holiday Tale is a Canadian animated television film, which aired on CBC Television in 2015. Based on the autobiographical short story "The Curse of Clara, or My Big Fat Disappointment" by Vickie Fagan, the film centres on her experience as a young girl studying ballet at Canada's National Ballet School who is cast in the role of Clara in the school's annual production of "The Nutcracker", only to learn of the longstanding legend that the role is cursed because nobody who played Clara
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London, England on Christmas Eve, Mr. Stahlbaum gives his children the Christmas presents his wife Marie had set aside for them before she died. The younger daughter, Clara, receives a handcrafted egg-shaped box, which she is unable to unlock. In the package, she discovers a note from her mother that states that the inside of the egg is all she would ever need. The Stahlbaum family then heads to a Christmas Eve ball, hosted by the children's godfather and skilled engineer Drosselmeyer. Refusing to dance with
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marriage to the princess. Just as it seems the toy soldiers are losing, Franz destroys The Nut of Darkness and kills Morphia - but not before she places a curse on him, turning him into a nutcracker doll. Clara carries the Nutcracker back to the palace, where she finds the court and King Goodwin are celebrating Princess Mary's awakening. Seeing Franz's new state, the princess abandons the marriage promise and calls the Nutcracker ugly. Clara leaves the kingdom to wander in search of anyone who knows how to return Franz
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's "Nutcracker!." An additional version, "Nutcracker: The Story of Clara", another radical reworking of the ballet, was also telecast. As in 2010, the Royal Ballet version was the winner. For 2012, contestants included the following: the London Royal Ballet's "The Nutcracker," Matthew Bourne's "Nutcracker!", the Bolshoi Ballet's "The Nutcracker," "Nutcracker: The Story of Clara", two Mariinsky "Nutcracker"s (2008 and 2012 respectively), and the San
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's dream counterpart) and the Nutcracker Prince as the Pasha tries to get Clara to sit with him, against the wishes of the Nutcracker Prince. The ending of the film departs from the stage version. As Clara and her Prince slowly swirl around wrapped in each other's arms while the "Apotheosis" plays, the Pasha magically levitates them higher and higher into the air as the other dancers wave goodbye. Suddenly, the jealous Pasha points his finger at the couple, which magically causes them to let go of each other
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, topless fan dancers, synchronized swimmers who engage in a type of orgy and a fairy who performs a striptease. The following is a list of roles for the performance: Clara- Nutcracker counterpart: Clara Protagonist. A twentysomething female trapped in suburban doldrums, but oblivious to her entrapment until Drosselmeyer gives her a vibrator, which becomes the Slutcracker Prince, who shows Clara a sexual spectrum. Fritz- Nutcracker counterpart: Rat King Antagonist. A twenty-something male also trapped in suburban doldrums, and also oblivious to this fact. Proposes
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of a prince. Clara falls asleep by the Christmas tree and awakens to see her Nutcracker suddenly alive and fighting the Mouse King. The Mouse King shrinks her down to his size, though he is unable to defeat them and temporarily retreats. The Nutcracker explains that he needs to find the Sugarplum Princess who is the only person who can stop the Mouse King from taking over his world. The wise owl of the grandfather clock reveals that the Sugarplum Princess is also the only one who can make Clara her original size again.
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Stowell dispenses with the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Confiturembourg setting for Act II altogether, opting instead, according to Sendak, for an exotic port containing a seraglio, in which the Grand Pasha (meant to resemble Drosselmeyer, played by the same performer) has his entourage perform for the couple in honor of their bravery. At the end of Act II, the boat on which Clara and the Prince journey to the Land of Sweets returns to take the Nutcracker and Clara away. Clara expresses reluctance to leave and the Pasha sends
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, who have fallen in love, dance as the citizens celebrate. The shrunken Mouse King steals Clara's locket and opens it. He is knocked to the ground and apparently dies, but Clara disappears, having magically returned home. Clara wakes up at home where she fell asleep. The Nutcracker is missing, and she runs to her grandfather, who dismisses the story as her imagination. Just then, Aunt Elizabeth returns with a young man – it is Eric, and she reveals him to be the son of a friend
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out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale. David Ehrlich of "IndieWire" gave the film a grade of "D+", calling the film "empty but eye-popping." He went on to write, "Watching a visually spectacular but virtually soulless new family movie like "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms," it's tempting to wonder if such eye-
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hint of budding romance between the two. The "Journey Through the Snow" sequence, in many other productions danced by Clara and the Nutcracker immediately after his transformation into a Prince, is not danced at all in the Balanchine version, although the music is played. Instead, Marie faints and falls on the bed after the battle, and the Nutcracker exits. Marie's bed moves by itself across the stage as the music plays, and at its climax, the Nutcracker reappears and through the use of a stage effect,
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), Germany ($9.4 million) and United Kingdom ($7.1 million). On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 34% based on 176 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Lacking a transporting yuletide story or dazzling dance routines, "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" is a hollow holiday confection that's lovely to look at – and easy to forget." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 39
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deliberately anachronistic) humor: after the battle with the mice, the Nutcracker, who has not yet regained his form as a Prince, says to Clara, "Thank you for saving my life, and for your superior nursing skills". During the early part of her adventures, Clara maintains a skeptical attitude, even saying "This is crazy" at one point. In 2004, Argus International in Moscow produced an animated version of "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", based on the original story by E.T.A. Hoffmann
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. Vanessa Sharp, a 12-year-old dancer, played Clara. Hugh Bigney, at 30, used a false chin, nose, and bald cap to play the much older role of Drosselmeyer; Bigney's young daughter also appeared in the film as a baby mouse. Other leads included Patricia Barker as the older Clara in the dream, and Wade Walthall as the Nutcracker Prince. The actress Julie Harris recorded narration for the film. In an interview during production, Ballard noted he was eager to avoid the cinematic idiosyncrasies of
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himself and make things right again. Clara, the Nutcracker, and their friends arrive at the princess's island, where the Nutcracker battles with the Mouse King. The Mouse King is hit with his own spell, shrinking him to the size of a real mouse and causing him to flee. The Nutcracker is injured and Clara kisses him whereupon he is restored to his true form as Eric. Clara, because she was able to break the spell, is revealed as the Sugarplum Princess. Eric is crowned king and the couple
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an army of gingerbread soldiers and the mice, led by their king. They begin to eat the soldiers. The nutcracker appears to lead the soldiers, who are joined by tin soldiers, and by dolls who serve as doctors to carry away the wounded. As the Mouse King advances on the still-wounded nutcracker, Clara throws her slipper at him, distracting him long enough for the nutcracker to stab him. Scene 2: A Pine Forest The mice retreat and the nutcracker is transformed into a handsome Prince. He leads
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the Snowflakes". Other changes included having a drunken guest at the Christmas party be the one responsible for breaking the Nutcracker, not Clara's brother Fritz, who is portrayed fairly sympathetically in this version. Clara, meanwhile, does not throw her slipper at the Mouse King during the battle, but a candleholder instead. The "Grand Adagio" of the "Pas de Deux" in Act II was made almost into a "Pas de Trois", as Drosselmeyer enters the festivities at the Land of Sweets to coax Clara
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Eugenio Derbez, Matthew Macfadyen, Richard E. Grant, Misty Copeland, with Helen Mirren, and Morgan Freeman. The film was announced in March 2016 with Hallström directing a script by Powell. Much of the cast signed on that summer, and filming began in October at Pinewood Studios, lasting through January 2017. In December 2017, it was announced Joe Johnston would direct a month of reshoots written by Tom McCarthy, with Hallström agreeing to Johnston receiving co-directing credit. "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" premiered in
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released on October 26, 2018. "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" was released on November 2, 2018, in 2D and Real D 3D by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, replacing the original date set for Disney's live adaptation of "Mulan". The teaser trailer was released on December 19, 2017. A second trailer was released August 8, 2018. Two days later, on August 10, 2018, a sneak peek for the film aired on Disney Channel during a new episode of "Andi Mack
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grossed $2,119,994. As of March 20, 2019, the film rights to "The Nutcracker" are now owned by the Walt Disney Studios (the studio that made "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" in 2018) through 20th Century Fox, which had obtained the film rights from Warner Bros. in the mid-2010s. The movie follows the traditional plot of the Nutcracker. "The Nutcracker" received generally mixed reviews from critics. Based on eight reviews, the film holds a rotten rating of 50% on review aggregator Rotten
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the gift, which ultimately grows up to be the Vibrator Prince. Slutcracker Prince- Nutcracker counterpart: Nutcracker Prince Hero. Anthropomorphized Vibrator. Battles suburban doldrums and wins. Has sex with Clara, giving her her first real orgasm, thereby showing her the "light." He then brings her to the land of Sexual Fantasy (ACT II) Party Goers- Nutcracker counterpart: Party Goers (Parents, Grandparents, children) These are Clara and Fritz's friends, all presumably straight, vanilla, suburban couples who attend their Xmas party
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, such as Robert Joffrey's for the Joffrey Ballet and Septime Webre's for the Washington Ballet have taken a similar route in transplanting the action to America.) Clara is played, for the most part, by a young girl rather than an adult woman. This production utilizes the basic outline of the original 1892 version, with some departures. For example, as in the Chemiakin and Grigorovich versions, the Nutcracker first "comes to life" at the Christmas party before Clara's dream begins. Rather than a Soldier as
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Lisa Anne Novelline (-"een") is an Italian-American author from Lexington, Massachusetts. Novelline grew up in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and is a former ballet dancer who performed with the Boston Ballet. In 1979 and 1980, she played the role of "Clara" in its production of "The Nutcracker." She lives in Lexington, MA and is the mother of four male children including Ryan Jude Novelline. She graduated with her Master of Education from Harvard University and is a former math teacher and coach of Destination
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arrive, intent on getting his revenge on the Nutcracker for his injured tail and humiliation. Drosselmeier appears on the grandfather clock and brings the Nutcracker and all the dolls and soldiers in the room to life. The Nutcracker, who has no memories following being transformed, battles the Mouse King, while the soldiers fight the mice. Clara saves the Nutcracker from the Mouse King by throwing her slipper at him. The first battle comes to a halt, though, when she slips on a cannonball and crashes into the clock, losing
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but ultimately agrees. Juliet, though, returns and wants her role back; Mark fires her but in doing so, causes Darren (Juliet's boyfriend who was cast as The Nutcracker Prince) to also quit, leaving no choice but for Mark to fill in the role. On opening night, Sadie plays Clara's role wonderfully. Before going on stage, Lily tells Mark she loves him. Lily and Mark perform their dance to a standing ovation and the approval of cast and company (even the dance moms).
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". In 1919, choreographer Alexander Gorsky staged a production which eliminated the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier and gave their dances to Clara and the Nutcracker Prince, who were played by adults instead of children. This was the first production to do so. An abridged version of the ballet was first performed outside Russia in Budapest (Royal Opera House) in 1927, with choreography by Ede Brada. In 1934, choreographer Vasili Vainonen staged a version of the work that addressed many of the criticisms of the original 1892 production by
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begin to free-fall. Before they can hit the ground, the Prince turns back into a nutcracker and Clara (a young girl again) is jolted awake from what has turned out to be a dream. "Nutcracker: The Motion Picture", like the Stowell-Sendak stage production on which it is based, is presented as Clara's coming-of-age story. It depicts Clara's inner conflict and confusion, as well as the beginning of her sexual awakening, as she approaches adolescence; similar themes
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a liking to it. Fritz, however, breaks it, and Clara is heartbroken. During the night, after everyone else has gone to bed, Clara returns to the parlor to check on her beloved nutcracker. As she reaches the little bed, the clock strikes midnight and she looks up to see Drosselmeyer perched atop it. Suddenly, mice begin to fill the room and the Christmas tree begins to grow to dizzying heights. The nutcracker also grows to life size. Clara finds herself in the midst of a battle between
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King and his army. The film has received nearly unanimously unfavorable reviews. "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" is a 2018 American fantasy adventure film released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in the United States on November 2, 2018 in RealD 3D and Dolby Cinema. The film was directed by Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston and written by Ashleigh Powell, and is a retelling of E. T. A. Hoffmann's short story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and Marius Petipa's "The Nutcracker" about a young girl
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in parentheses): "Schelkunchik" ("Nutcracker") is a 1973 Russian animated short based on the story with no dialogue, and features Tchaikovsky's music, not only from "The Nutcracker", but also from "Swan Lake" and "The Sleeping Beauty". In this version the heroine is not Clara, the daughter of a distinguished Town Council President, but a lonely chambermaid who works in a large house. When she kisses the Nutcracker, he comes to life, but is ashamed of his appearance
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was then starring as the mother in CBS's "Lassie", in 1958; it was the first "Nutcracker" broadcast in color. There were only four commercial breaks. This television production starred Balanchine himself as Drosselmeyer, Diana Adams as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Bonnie Bedelia in an early role as Clara, and Robert Maiorano as the Nutcracker/ Prince. Excerpts from the Balanchine production were performed several times on various television shows of the time, notably "The Bell Telephone Hour" and "The Ed Sullivan Show".
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grown up to believe in him. Uncle Drosselmeyer startles them with his arrival. He gives Clara a nutcracker doll, which she adores. She promises to go to bed immediately if she can keep it. Clara awakens in the middle of the night to find her nutcracker gone. She sees a group of mice carrying it down the stairs and follows them into the living room. As she takes back the doll, she's confronted by the leader of the mice, a two-headed rat queen. The queen orders Clara
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to hand over the nutcracker, but she refuses. Clara is knocked out just as the nutcracker springs to life to defend her against the mice. The next morning, Clara finds herself back in her bedroom. She tells her aunt about the mice and her doll being missing, but Gerda insists that she is talking nonsense and is ill with a fever. In her delirious state, Clara goes down to the living room and stares at the grandfather clock. Thinking she sees Uncle Drosselmeyer inside, she climbs in, only to
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becomes stuck. Franz continues without her, leading Clara to grab his foot and beg him not to go. She wakes up to realize she's clutching the Nutcracker as Gaar tries to pull him away. She begs Gaar to spare Franz and kill her instead, but Gaar insists Franz must die for killing his mother. As he's about to stab the Nutcracker, Clara uses her own body as a shield. This frees Franz from the spell and destroys Gaar. Clara wakes up in bed, with Uncle Drosselmeyer beside her
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consciousness for the rest of the night. The next morning, she awakens in her own bed and tries to tell her mother about the battle, only to be told to rest. Drosselmeier visits with the repaired yet now lifeless Nutcracker, giving only vague answers to Clara's questions about the previous night. The next night, the Mouse King returns, angry about Clara's interference from before. Before he can go after the Nutcracker once more, Clara tricks him, briefly trapping him within her drawer in her bedside table in
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sign of the events that she has experienced, except her brother's statement that Pavlova discovered a large dead mouse near the toy castle. Clara rushes downstairs to find the Nutcracker missing. She runs to Uncle Drosselmeier's workshop where he seems to be expecting her. She begs him to tell her whether the fairytale he told her was true or false. Clara is suddenly silenced when a young boy enters the room, carrying a big clock. Drosselmeier introduces the boy as his nephew Hans, whom Clara recognizes as her beloved Nutcracker
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The second act was also changed to be more dramatic. The swans ran in circles and in confused flocks, in a way contemporary critics found intolerable. It was Gorsky who first thought of turning the fantasy scenes in "The Nutcracker" into a dream from which Clara awakens at the end . In the original ballet and the story on which it is based, they really occur. Gorsky also changed the story so that the roles of Clara and the Nutcracker / Prince would be danced by adults, rather than children, thereby
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still alive, tries to save Clara, but slowly turns back into a toy himself. Clara tries to keep the Mouse King at bay, but he corners her on a balcony, his mental state continuing to decay. As the King strikes, he plummets into the deep river and vanishes, almost taking Clara with him. Clara pulls herself back up and finds the castle is completely empty. She begins sobbing for the Nutcracker as mist fills the lonely palace. Clara wakes up to find herself back home. There is no
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Balanchine "Nutcracker", referred to Marie as the Prince's sweetheart. And oddly enough, throughout Act II of the 1993 film of Balanchine's version, Marie does wear a veil that resembles a bridal veil. The Balanchine version uses perhaps more real children than any other version. (In other versions, the children are sometimes played by adult women.) The rôles of Clara and the Nutcracker/ Prince are performed by adults in many other versions, and in these productions of the ballet, there is usually more than a
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while retaining Tchaikovsky's score (except the music for Mother Gigogne and her Polichinelles), reworks the traditional libretto. In this version, Clara lives in Dr. Sugar's orphanage. The Nutcracker in this version resembles the ventriloquist dummy Jerry Mahoney after coming to life, and turns into, not a Prince, but a shirtless, muscular man resembling Mr. Universe. The Sugar Plum Fairy is replaced by a character named Princess Sugar, a calculating, slutty woman who steals Clara's beau away from her. Instead of abandoning plot development
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She wakes up from the dream in terror. But when she goes to her family's Christmas party and sees Fritz playing with a hand puppet rat that strongly resembles the one in the dream, she becomes very uneasy. Clara, her family, and all their guests dance at the Christmas party. Drosselmeyer, who is a friend of the family, enters the room and gives toys to the children. He also entertains them, especially Clara, by displaying the castle he was creating at the film's start, including moving
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slays the Mouse King and wins the heart of a girl named Clara. The film features the voice talents of Kiefer Sutherland as Hans (The Nutcracker), Megan Follows as Clara, Mike MacDonald as the evil Mouse King, Peter O'Toole as Pantaloon, an old soldier, Phyllis Diller as the Mouse Queen, and Peter Boretski as Uncle Drosselmeier. In 1850 in Germany Clara's family are celebrating on Christmas Eve. Clara is jealous because her older sister, Louise, has a boyfriend, leaving her feeling sad and wondering about
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Francisco Ballet's "The Nutcracker." The winner was the San Francisco version. For 2013, the contestants once again included the Mariinsky's 2012 "Nutcracker," Matthew Bourne's "Nutcracker!", "Nutcracker: The Story of Clara", and the San Francisco Ballet's "The Nutcracker." The winner, shown on December 23, was the San Francisco version. For 2014, the contestants were Youri Vamos' "The Nutcracker: A Christmas Story", the 2000 version of the London Royal Ballet
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"From that day on, Drosselmeyer's nephew is Clara's Prince and Clara is his Princess, and I need not tell you that they lived happily ever after." (But Drosselmeyer's nephew is there when the Nutcracker is broken during the Christmas party, so it is difficult to believe that he is the Nutcracker/ Prince, unless Marie dreams her fantasy adventures, and it is unclear in this version whether she does or not.) Years later, movie critic Stephen Holden, in reviewing the 1993 film version of the
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dramatic film which uses a new plot, features Brian Cox as Drosselmeyer. This "retelling" is set during World War II, and makes Clara's father a prisoner of war. Nazis also feature in this adaptation. "The Nutcracker in 3D" (also known as "Nutcracker: The Untold Story") is a feature-length musical variation in 3-D on the tale set in 1920s Vienna, featuring John Turturro as the Rat King, Elle Fanning as Mary (rather than Clara) and Nathan Lane as a young
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The owl gives Clara a locket that has the power to send her home after they find the Princess. The two journey to Gingerbread Village, where the children tells them that the rightful heir to the throne, Prince Eric, has gone missing. Clara realizes that the Nutcracker is the missing prince and he reveals that his careless attitude led the king to pronouncing the Mouse as temporary king until Eric accepted his responsibilities. The Mouse decided he wanted to be king for good and turned Eric into a Nutcracker. Eric hopes to redeem
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be in a live production of "The Nutcracker". Peter Martins served as choreographer. In this version, the Prince asks Clara to stay on as his Queen, even telling her "I love you". But Clara is dreaming, and therefore must awaken. However, the couple is reunited in reality when Clara's aunt brings "the son of a friend" over to visit for Christmas. In this version, the Mouse King does not die until near the end. The film also features touches of (sometimes
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Barbie in the Nutcracker


sold more than 3.4million units on DVD by 2002, and grossed in total sales. The frame story is of Barbie's younger sister, Kelly, having trouble performing ballet and her fears of going onstage. Barbie tells her the story of "The Nutcracker" to give her courage. A girl named Clara lives with Drosselmeyer, her stern grandfather, and Tommy, her younger brother. On Christmas Eve, they receive a surprise visit from their Aunt Elizabeth. Clara receives a Nutcracker from her that Aunt Elizabeth says contains the heart
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version, in 1988 with Elisabeth Maurin as Clara and Laurent Hilaire as Drosselmeyer and the Prince, and in 2008 with Myriam Ould-Braham as Clara and Jérémie Bélingard in these roles. Neither of those productions have been telecast on U.S. television. In 1966, Yuri Grigorovich created his own version of "The Nutcracker" for the Bolshoi Ballet, utilizing many of the changes made by Vasily Vainonen for his 1934 production, including the casting of adult dancers in the roles of the heroine (called Maria rather than Clara in this version
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Baryshnikov's, Clara is Clara Stahlbaum rather than Clara Silberhaus. Scene 1: The Stahlbaum Home It is Christmas Eve. Family and friends have gathered in the parlor to decorate the beautiful Christmas tree in preparation for the party. Once the tree is finished, the children are sent for. They stand in awe of the tree sparkling with candles and decorations. The party begins. A march is played. Presents are given out to the children. Suddenly, as the owl-topped grandmother clock strikes eight, a mysterious figure
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version of Tchaikovsky's work with the Royal Ballet, in which he starred with Merle Park as Clara. Nureyev had previously performed the role of the Nutcracker Prince in Vainonen's version as a student at the Leningrad Ballet school in February 1958. Nureyev's production adopts many of Gorsky and Vainonen's alterations to the original 1892 version, including casting adult dancers in the roles of Clara and the Prince, eliminating the Sugar Plum Fairy, and having Clara awaken to realize the fantasy sequences were a dream. The production was videotaped for
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Lowri Shone


Lowri Shone (born 5 April 1996) is an English ballerina, and is training at English National Ballet School in London. Lowri was born in Winchester on 5 April 1996. She has trained at Tring Park for four years. In 2010, Lowri performed the role of Clara with the English National Ballet at the London Coliseum in Wayne Eagling's production of "The Nutcracker". Lowri had also previously performed in the English National Ballet's (ENB) previous production of "The Nutcracker", with a minor role.
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The Slutcracker


literally power the Slutcracker Prince and help him to defeat Team Bad Xmas Sweaters. Slutcracker Bunny- Nutcracker counterpart: Bunny The Slutcracker Bunny, much like the Energizer bunny, beats a drum and assists the Batteries. Orgasm Hoopers- Nutcracker counterpart: Snowflakes Illuminated hoop dancers who represent Clara's orgasm (big, spinning, blinking, Os), which ends ACT I Bacchanalia- Nutcracker Counterpart: Angels There are TWO COMPONENTS to Bacchanalia, which are called CORPS and FLUFFERS. CORPS are the dancers on stage. FLUFFERS are the dancers flitting about in
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"Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012) "Song of the Sea" (2014) "Sucker Punch" (2011) "The BFG" (2016) "The Hobbit" (2012–14) "The Jungle Book" (2016) "The Kid Who Would Be King" (2019) "The Last Airbender" (2010) "The Lorax" (2012) "The Muppets" (2011) "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" (2018) "The Shape of Water" (2017
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. Arabian- Nutcracker Counterpart: Arabian/Coffee Veiled, blindfolded, lesbian-bondage bellydancers. Chinese- Nutcracker Counterpart: Chinese/Tea Traditional Chinese fandancers, except topless. Russian- Nutcracker Counterpart: Russian/Trépak A trio of black PVC-clad dominatrixes number en pointe, with bull whips. Gimp- Nutcracker Counterpart: None A clever device used to set up the stripper pole. Dance of the Reed Pole- Nutcracker Counterpart: Dance of the Reed Pipes A solo pole dance privately entertaining Clara and Slutcracker Polichinelle- Nutcracker counterpart: Polichinelle An orgy of
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Zina Bethune


City Ballet as Clara in the original 1954 Balanchine production of "The Nutcracker" The Nutcracker (Balanchine). Bethune performed in her first professional acting role at age 6, with a small part in the off-Broadway play "Monday's Heroes", produced by Stella Holt at the Greenwich Mews Theater. As a child performer, Bethune appeared in the original cast of "The Most Happy Fella" as well as several American daytime television dramas, including a stint as the first "Robin Lang" on "The Guiding
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her nutcracker. As the clock strikes twelve, the Christmas tree gets bigger and all the toy soldiers, as well as the nutcracker, come to life and battle the mice. A seven-headed Mouse King appears through a hole in the floor and grows to giant size. When the mice overpower the soldiers and the Nutcracker himself is threatened, Clara throws her slipper at the Mouse King, changing him into an ordinary mouse. What remains of the giant Mouse King is his coat and his crown. The Nutcracker crawls in
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Keira Knightley


The Nutcracker", titled "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms", directed by Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston. The film received generally negative reviews. In 2019, Knightley co-starred in "The Aftermath", a film adaption of the novel by Rhidian Brook, alongside Alexander Skarsgård. While promoting it, Knightley said that she chose to no longer appear nude in film after having a child. The film received mixed reviews, and Knightley received a mixed response as well. "The Boston Globe"'s Ty Burr
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Misty Copeland


in a photospread ahead of a Museum of Modern Art exhibition: "Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty". The feature was favorably noted by several media outlets, but Sebastian Smee of "The Boston Globe" argued that contemporary ballet performers take Degas' ballet-themed work too seriously. Copeland was cast to dance the lead ballerina role in the forthcoming 2018 Disney film, "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms", based on the 1816 story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". She also voiced herself on
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85.6 million) in the UK. The music was adapted in part from Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite" from 1892 by James Newton Howard, updating the original and adding new tracks as well. For the recording, Gustavo Dudamel conducted the London Philharmonia Orchestra, while Lang Lang was the piano soloist. Andrea Bocelli and his son Matteo contributed the original duet "Fall on Me" for the film, which premiered on "Dancing with the Stars"' "Disney Night" on October 22, 2018. The soundtrack was
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Helen Mirren


the 75th awards ceremony, Mirren received her 15th Golden Globe nomination. In 2018, Mirren portrayed heiress Sarah Winchester in the supernatural horror film "Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built", directed by The Spierig Brothers. In the same year, she starred as Mother Ginger in Disney's adaptation of "The Nutcracker", titled "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms", directed by Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston. In 2019, she appeared in the ensemble film "Berlin, I Love You" and the French crime
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. They suddenly begin to freefall, and the Prince again becomes a nutcracker. Just as both are about to hit the ground and presumably be seriously injured or killed, Clara (a young girl again) is jolted awake from her dream. In the film, the "Final Waltz" is heard during the closing credits (although the "Apotheosis" is performed during the last moments of the ballet). Drosselmeyer is sleeping at his work desk (with the presumption that the dream was not Clara's but his),
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Bonnie Bedelia


acting training at HB Studio Before becoming an actress, Bedelia studied ballet and appeared in a few productions with the New York City Ballet, including "The Nutcracker". In 1958 she had her only dancing role onscreen as Clara in the "Playhouse 90" television production of the George Balanchine "Nutcracker". From 1961 to 1967 Bedelia was a regular on the CBS soap opera, "Love of Life", playing the role of Sandy Porter. She also worked on Broadway, making her debut supporting Patty Duke in 1962
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what the filmmakers intended. Director Ardolino died of AIDS only a few days before the film's release. The other rôles in the film were played by members of the New York City Ballet, including Darci Kistler as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Damian Woetzel as the Fairy's Cavalier, Bart Cook as Drosselmeyer, Jessica Lynn Cohen as Marie (a.k.a. Clara), and Wendy Whelan as Coffee in the Arabian Dance. During the 2011 Christmas season, PBS, for the very first time, presented the complete Balanchine "Nutcracker
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The Slutcracker


marriage to Clara (which she accepts), but then breaks the engagement when the vibrator arrives on the scene. Fritz battles the Slutcracker Prince for her affection, and loses. Fritz returns later to try to win Clara back, and does after learning to accept sexual variety. Drosselmeyer- Nutcracker counterpart: Drosselmeyer Hero Assist. Drosselmeyer is the giver of the "slutcracker," represented as a pink vibrator. This initially embarrasses Clara, and humiliates/infuriates Fritz, who feels threatened by it. Drosselmeyer pursues and prevails in bestowing
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eyed Pasha, who strongly resembles Drosselmeyer, develop a rivalry over Clara. Under the Pasha's direction, the members of the court perform "divertissements", and Clara performs the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy". She and the Prince dance a romantic "Pas de Deux". At the end, she and the Prince, locked in each other's arms, are magically levitated by the Pasha after bidding farewell to the Court. Suddenly the Pasha waves his hand, and Clara and her Prince are separated and
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Ellie Bamber


Amy Adams. Also that year, she filmed the feature film "Extracurricular Activities". In 2017 she also filmed "High Resolution" based on the book Taipei by "Tao Lin". In 2017, Bamber appeared in the music video for Shawn Mendes' song "There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back". In 2018 Ellie was in " The Nutcracker and the Four Realms", alongside Keira Knightley and Morgan Freeman. In 2019 she plays Cosette in BBC 1 television series "Les Misérables" with Dominic West and
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the sleeve after the fleeing mouse and Clara follows him, becoming an adult as she wanders through the coat's passageways. She emerges from the coat onto a wintry pavilion, where she finds the Nutcracker transformed into a handsome prince. They dance romantically, and as they depart the snow falls and the snow fairies appear to dance the "Waltz of the Snowflakes". Clara and the Prince sail away to a castle where they are welcomed by the Prince's Royal Court. There, the Prince and the jealous, one-
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"Great Performances", starring Alina Cojocaru as Clara, Ivan Putrov as the Nutcracker Prince, Miyako Yoshida as the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Anthony Dowell (this time as Drosselmeyer). These first two versions of the Wright production are available on DVD. In 2008, again with a new cast (Iohna Loots as Clara, Ricardo Cervera as Hans-Peter, and Gary Avis as Drosselmeyer), the production was streamed live to movie theatres in England, and was presented as a high-definition film in select theatres
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as Clara in the ballet became entranced with the wooden figure with the big teeth, so did Arlene." She started her collection of the toy soldiers as a child. During the 1960s, Wagner began to purchase various kinds of nutcrackers. The museum's building is of a Bavarian style and is of an area of 3,000 square feet; it is situated above Wagner's shop Nussknacker Haus, which sells nutcrackers. Wagner came to be known as "the Nutcracker Lady". The Museum was featured on the NBC program "
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Margaret Scott (dancer)


Robert Ray, and she showed herself to be a talented actress in a non-dancing role in the play "In the Body of the Son" by Nicholas Rowe, presented at the Darwin Festival in 1995. Her greatest triumph, however, came in 1992, when, at the age of 70, she appeared as Clara the Elder in "Nutcracker: The Story of Clara", Graeme Murphy's imaginative reinterpretation of the Christmas classic. She repeated the role during the 1994 and 2000 seasons of the Australian Ballet.
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produced in a workshop at Columbia University School of the Arts in 2016. The play uses magic realism to tell the story of siblings living in New York. With their mother deceased and their father catatonic, Jose tells magical stories of his younger sister as a fairy princess. They discover Fefu, a fairy scout who's goal is to bring Clara to the magical realm. A coming of age story, the play analyzes themes of identity, wealth, and family. "Princess Clara of Loisaida" was a finalist for the
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of splinters!") before vanishing. Clara is upset by the story for its unhappy ending, but is consoled when Drosselmeier tells her that the spell can be broken if he defeats the Mouse King and wins the hand of a fair maiden. That night, when everyone has gone to sleep, Clara ventures into the sitting room to dance with her Nutcracker and introduces him to her dolls, Trudy, Marie and Pantaloon, an old general in Fritz's toy soldier army. Suddenly the Mouse King and his army of mice
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in his human form. The film ends with Hans and Clara addressing each other. "Hello, Clara." Hans says, and then she replies with a smile, "Hello, Nutcracker". The film was initially released on VHS in 1991 by Warner Home Video in the United States and Cineplex Odeon Video in Canada. It was later re-released on August 13, 1996 as part of the Warner Bros. Classic Tales series, and again in 1999 through Warner Bros. Family Entertainment. The film has been released on
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to human, unaware that Gaar survived the attack and is following her. She eventually comes across the Watchmaker, who tells her the only way to save Franz is through an act of true, unselfish love. Clara declares she loves Franz, but the Watchmaker says that isn't enough. Exhausted from travelling, Clara falls asleep. She dreams that Franz is human again and they enter a magical kingdom made of candy. As they're about to ascend the stairs to live happily ever after in their castle, Clara's foot
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