SEVERAL MID-COAST STUDENTS will be part of Portland Ballet Company’s production of “The Victorian Nutcracker,” which opens Dec. 8 at Merrill Auditorium. In back from left are Ryland Rich of Edgecomb and Kayla Bobalek of Topsham; in front are Isabel Kovacs of Bath, Grace Confer of Brunswick and Caroline Gill of Bowdoinham. Missing from the photo are Ann and Lily Clifford, and Paige Falkingham, all of West Bath, and Samantha Melquist of Bath.
Ballet Company’s “The Victorian Nutcracker” is set in Victorian era Portland with stage sets and costumes based on rooms in the Victoria Mansion. The Victorian Nutcracker will be performed at Merrill Auditorium on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 2 and 7.30 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 9, at 2 p.m. Join Portland’s professional company, along with a cast of talented student dancers, for this annual holiday celebration.
This year features new and exciting choreography by associate artistic director Nell Shipman for the famous “Battle Scene” where the Nutcracker and his soldiers take on the Mouse
King and his army of mice.
CORPS director Joseph
Morrissey has choreographed the intricate “Ribbon Candy” variation, and
Katrina Smedal will bring a new “Chinese Tea” variation, featuring a dancing dragon.
Lawrence Golan, music director of the Yakima Symphony
Orchestra, returns to Maine to conduct the orchestra, which features many members of the Portland Symphony Orchestra. He is a former concertmaster of the PSO.
The Victorian Festival Singers, under the direction of Andy Chipman with Gil Pertola and Abby Hutchins, will sing in the lobby and for the Snow Scene.
Tickets are $24 to $54 and can be purchased by calling 842-0800 or by visiting www.porttix.com.
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