Donor Dress Rehearsals

The Nutcracker 

Stage and Orchestra Rehearsal
Wednesday, December 4

The Nutcracker is made possible by generous financial support from production underwriters Sandra Pitblado, C.M. & Jim Pitblado, C.M., Lawrence and Ann Heisey and an anonymous friend of the National Ballet.

Choreography and Libretto:
James Kudelka

Music:
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Set and Costume Design:
Santo Loquasto

Lighting Design:
Jennifer Tipton

Stage Managers:
Jeff Morris and Alexandria Wommack

Assistant Stage Manager:
Troy Taylor

Rehearsal Director, Principal Coaches:
Rex Harrington, O.C., D.Litt and Xiao Nan Yu

Rehearsal Directors:
Stephanie Hutchison and Lise-Marie Jourdain

Guest Répétiteur:
Peter Ottmann

Guest Rehearsal Director:
Greta Hodgkinson, O.Ont

Canada’s National Ballet School Rehearsal Director:
Laurel Toto, assisted by Kate Garrett, Yoo Sang Hong, Phillip Payne and Takeshi Watanabe

World Premiere: The National Ballet of Canada, O’Keefe Centre (now Meridian Hall), Toronto, December 21, 1995

The National Ballet of Canada Orchestra with VIVA Singers Toronto
Carol Ratzlaff, Founding Artistic Director, Laura Menard, Associate Director

The National Ballet of Canada gratefully acknowledges its collaboration with Canada's National Ballet School in the production of The Nutcracker.

This production is dedicated to Celia Franca and Betty Oliphant.
With respect, admiration and gratitude. – JK

Congratulations to VIVA Singers Toronto on their 25th anniversary! For the past 25 years their beautiful voices have accompanied The National Ballet of Canada Orchestra during the snow scene, making it even more magical.

Casting

ACT I

Scene 1, A Barn

Peter, a stable boy 
Larkin Miller

Marie
Ella Morris

Misha, Marie's brother
Andrea Palmieri

Baba, Marie and Misha’s nurse 
Stephanie Hutchison⁺/Clare Peterson 

Marie and Misha’s parents 
Kathryn Hosier and Donald Thom  

Uncle Nikolai 
Spencer Hack 

Parents, Children, Aunts, Uncles, Servants, Bears and a Horse 
Artists of The National Ballet of Canada and Students of Canada’s National Ballet School 

Scene 2, The Battle of the Tsar of the Mice 

The Nutcracker 
Larkin Miller

The Tsar of the Mice 
Jason Ferro 

Baby Mice 
Students of Canada’s National Ballet (Young Dancers Progamme) 

Dogs, Cats and Mice 
Artists of The National Ballet of Canada and Students of Canada’s National Ballet School 

Scene 3, The Land of Snow 

Snow Queen and her Icicles 
Alexandra MacDonald, Peng-Fei Jiang, Trygve Cumpston 

Snow Maidens 
Artists of The National Ballet of Canada^# 

Unicorns 
Students of Canada’s National Ballet School 

ACT II 

The Palace of the Sugar Plum Fairy 

Courtiers, Guards, Ladies-in-Waiting 
Students of Canada’s National Ballet School 

The Sugar Plum Fairy 
Genevieve Penn Nabity 

Empress Dowager Baba 
Stephanie Hutchison+/Clare Peterson

Grand Duke Nikolai 
Spencer Hack 

Spanish Chocolate 
Hannah Galway  
Brenna Flaherty 
Noah Parets  
Erica Lall
Ayami Goto
Jason Ferro 

Arabian Coffee 
Tene Ward 
Josh Hall 
Connor Hamilton 
Shaakir Muhammad

A Sheep 
Emma Ouellet 

A Flock of Lambs 
Students of Canada’s National Ballet (Young Dancers Progamme) 

A Fox 
David Preciado 

Waiters 
Ryan Kao Cheng, Yi-Min Tsung, João Massei, Luiz Anselmo

Chefs 
Students of Canada’s National Ballet School 

A Bee 
Jeannine Haller

Flowers and Branches 
Artists of The National Ballet of Canada^#

 + Guest artist 
# Company Life Programme students appear by kind permission of CAEA and Mavis Stains, Artistic Director and CEO of Canada’s National Ballet School. 

All Casting Subject to Change 

Top Photo: Tirion Law and Siphesihle November in The Nutcracker. Photo by Karolina Kuras.