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NUTCRACKER CASTING: DEC 22, 2PM

NUTCRACKER CASTING: DEC 22, 2PM

COMPOSER

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

CHOREOGRAPHER

Helgi Tomasson

RUNTIME

Act I – 47 min
Intermission – 20 min
Act II – 50 min

Total runtime: 1 hour, 57 minutes

CASTING

Conductor: Gavriel Heine

ACT I

Uncle Drosselmeyer: Pascal Molat

Clara: Ava Allaire

Fritz: Mateo Wexler

Housekeeper & Maid: Maggie Weirich, Hui-Wen Peng

Dr. & Mrs. Stahlbaum: Rubén Cítores Nieto, Elizabeth Mateer

Grandparents: Alan Takata-Villareal, Joanna Berman

Party Guests: Jihyun Choi, Thamires Chuvas, Carlota Cruz, Juliana Wilder, Parker Garrison, Lleyton Ho, Davide Occhipinti, Adrian Zeisel with Students of San Francisco Ballet

Dancing Dolls: Lucas López, Leili Rackow, Alexis Francisco Valdes

The Nutcracker Prince: Mingxuan Wang

King of the Mice: Nathaniel Remez

Queen & King of the Snow: Isabella DeVivo and Joshua Jack Price

Snowflakes: Sofia Albers, Rebecca Blenkinsop, Anna Chaziroglou, Carlota Cruz, Gabriela Gonzalez, Katharine Lee, Swane Messaoudi, Rimi Nakano, Pemberley Ann Olson, Hui-Wen Peng, Tyla Steinbach, Jamie Adele Stephens, Angela Watson, Juliana Wilder, Juliette Windey, Seojeong Yun

ACT II

The Sugar Plum Fairy: Wona Park

Spanish: Nicole Moyer, Leili Rackow, Fernando Carratalá Coloma, Lleyton Ho, Simone Pompignoli

Arabian: Sasha Mukhamedov with Rubén Cítores Nieto, Steven Morse

Chinese: Dylan Pierzina with Students of San Francisco Ballet School

French: Jihyun Choi, SunMin Lee, Seojeong Yun

Russian: João Percilio da Silva with Emmitt Friedman, Ben Taber

Madame Du Cirque: Louis Schilling

with her Buffoons: Students of San Francisco Ballet School with Lucas López

Waltzing Flowers: Sofia Albers, Rebecca Blenkinsop, Thamires Chuvas, Carlota Cruz, Gabriela Gonzalez, Laurel Ho, Katharine Lee, Swane Messaoudi, Rimi Nakano, Pemberley Ann Olson, Hui-Wen Peng, Tyla Steinbach, Jamie Adele Stephens, Lizzy Steward, Angela Watson, Juliana Wilder

Grand Pas de Deux: Jasmine Jimison and Mingxuan Wang

Scenic Design: Michael Yeargan
Costume Design: Martin Pakledinaz
Lighting Design: James F. Ingalls
Projection Design: Wendall K. Harrington
The 2004 premiere of Helgi Tomasson’s Nutcracker was made possible by Lead Sponsors The Herbert Family and The Swanson Foundation, and Sponsors Yurie and Carl Pascarella, Kathleen Scutchfield, and The Smelick Family.