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NUTCRACKER CASTING: DEC 24, 11AM

NUTCRACKER CASTING: DEC 24, 11AM

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: Myles Thatcher

Clara: Ava Allaire

Fritz: Santiago Stack Lozano

Housekeeper & Maid: Elizabeth Mateer, SunMin Lee

Dr. & Mrs. Stahlbaum: Steven Morse, Elizabeth Powell

Grandparents: Jim Sohm, Joanna Berman

Party Guests: Rebecca Blenkinsop, Carlota Cruz, Tyla Steinbach, Jamie Adele Stephens, Benjamin Davidoff, Jakub Groot, Davide Occhipinti, Jasper True Stanford with Students of San Francisco Ballet

Dancing Dolls: Simone Pompignoli, Seojeong Yun, Emmitt Friedman

The Nutcracker Prince: Esteban Hernández

King of the Mice: Nathaniel Remez

Queen & King of the Snow: Carmela Mayo and Alexis Francisco Valdes

Snowflakes: Thamires Chuvas, Carlota Cruz, Jacey Gailliard, Laurel Ho, SunMin Lee, Swane Messaoudi, Nicole Moyer, Pemberley Ann Olson, Hui-Wen Peng, Leili Rackow, Tyla Steinbach, Jamie Adele Stephens, Angela Watson, Maggie Weirich, Juliette Windey, Seojeong Yun

ACT II

The Sugar Plum Fairy: Kamryn Baldwin

Spanish: Isabella DeVivo, Norika Matsuyama, Benjamin Davidoff, Fernando Carratalá Coloma, Simone Pompignoli

Arabian: Sasha Mukhamedov with Rubén Cítores Nieto, Steven Morse

Chinese: Dylan Pierzina with Students of San Francisco Ballet School

French: Nicole Moyer, Pemberley Ann Olson, Maggie Weirich

Russian: João Percilio da Silva with Andris Kundzins, Lucas López

Madame Du Cirque: Louis Schilling

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

Waltzing Flowers: Rebecca Blenkinsop, Anna Chaziroglou, Thamires Chuvas, Jacey Gailliard, Laurel Ho, Katharine Lee, SunMin Lee, Elizabeth Mateer, Swane Messaoudi, Hui-Wen Peng, Leili Rackow, Tyla Steinbach, Jamie Adele Stephens, Angela Watson, Juliana Wilder, Juliette Windey

Grand Pas de Deux: Katherine Barkman and Esteban Hernández

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.