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NUTCRACKER CASTING: DEC 23, 2PM

NUTCRACKER CASTING: DEC 23, 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: Martin West

ACT I

Uncle Drosselmeyer: Ricardo Bustamante

Clara: Mitsuki Kobayashi Denman

Fritz: Santiago Stack Lozano

Housekeeper & Maid: Tyla Steinbach, Carlota Cruz

Dr. & Mrs. Stahlbaum: Myles Thatcher, Katita Waldo

Grandparents: Alan Takata-Villareal, Joanna Berman

Party Guests: Jacey Gailliard, Aaliyahmarie Key, SunMin Lee, Seojeong Yun, Parker Garrison, Jakub Groot, Andris Kundzins, Davide Occhipinti with Students of San Francisco Ballet

Dancing Dolls: Lucas López, Leili Rackow, Archie Sullivan

The Nutcracker Prince: Fernando Carratalá Coloma

King of the Mice: Rubén Cítores Nieto

Queen & King of the Snow: Thamires Chuvas and Adrian Zeisel

Snowflakes: Maria Bertodatti, Maya Chandrashekaran, Anna Chaziroglou, Jihyun Choi, Gabriela Gonzalez, Laurel Ho, Katharine Lee, Sarah Lusetti, Nicole Moyer, Rimi Nakano, Pemberley Ann Olson, Ruby Rosenquist, Maggie Weirich, Nicole Kosasih Widjaja, Juliana Wilder, Juliette Windey

ACT II

The Sugar Plum Fairy: Isabella DeVivo

Spanish: Carmela Mayo, Nicole Moyer, Lucas López, Joshua Jack Price, Ben Taber

Arabian: Kamryn Baldwin with Steven Morse, Myles Thatcher

Chinese: Mingxuan Wang with Students of San Francisco Ballet School

French: Rimi Nakano, Tyla Steinbach, Angela Watson

Russian: Luca Ferrò with Benjamin Davidoff, Simone Pompignoli

Madame Du Cirque: Louis Schilling

with her Buffoons: Students of San Francisco Ballet School with Davide Occhipinti

Waltzing Flowers: Molly Allen, Maya Chandrashekaran, Jihyun Choi, Carlota Cruz, Jacey Gailliard, Gabriela Gonzalez, Katharine Lee, SunMin Lee, Sarah Lusetti, Pemberley Ann Olson, Hui-Wen Peng, Amelia Soh, Juliana Wilder, Juliette Windey, Seojeong Yun

Grand Pas de Deux: Frances Chung and Fernando Carratalá Coloma

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.