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From there it played to Christmas crowds on numerous occasions, delighting audiences with its colourful theatricality and intricate choreography. He picked Hoffmann's 1816 fairy tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" as the subject for the new ballet. The rattle is heard in the orchestra pit when Fritz cracks nuts in Act 1, and the other instruments are heard when the boys make a lot of noise while Clara comforts the broken Nutcracker.
Kids’ Costume includes a black sparkly top, a black tattered skirt, and tattered sparkly black wings.Drosselmeyer mysteriously reappears and transforms Clara’s nutcracker into a real live handsome prince, who leads the toy soldiers into battle with the mice and their leader, the evil King Rat. While Brown never gives his approval to The Nutcracker, he thinks Tchaikovsky did a remarkable job despite the "appalling limitations of the subject.
Because the story was so weak and did not permit symphonic development, Tchaikovsky indulged his taste for "prettiness" in the separate numbers. In the United States, for example, there are hula, tap dance, reggae, wheelchair, dance-along, ice, and drag versions.
A portion thought of it to be a noble composition, with exemplary themes and emotion, however many thought otherwise. On the surface, Sugar Plum appears childishly innocent and kind, acting very sweet and concerned for the Realms' safety, and also very adoring of both Marie and Clara.
Her youngest daughter Clara receives a handcrafted egg-shaped box, and is told by her godfather Drosselmeyer that Marie created it for her.Plot [ change | change source ] Marius Petipa wrote the libretto for the ballet and designed the dances.