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Show Lehl Free Press New Utahl Wednesday, Dec. 9, 1998 - Page 12 Nutcracker , Continued from front page advance of the performance as well. The sets, costumes, Traditions don't happen music, and the performers all overnight, and they don't hap- combine to create a professional pen by chance. What Jacqueline production which has grown in Colledge has built over nearly popularity year after year. two decades has worked because Colledge, who comes from she has worked. Behind the Lehi and now resides in Ameriflawless are can Fork, has known ballet from performance months of preparation based on the time she was a young child. And for her, Christmas wouldn't years of experience. The annual process begins be Christmas without the Nutwith auditions during the last cracker. She performed in her week in October where 128 chifirst Nutcracker with Ballet ldren will be selected to perform West when she was 14, and has from over 400 who try out. been involved either as a persessions former or director every year Daily practice stretch late into the evening as since then. dancers hone skills and Colledge has a magical touch with ballet that stems from a Colledge takes notes, helps performers make corrections, takes deep love for the dance. She more notes, and makes even tried for one year to leave it more correc and alone, tions. says she just wasn't happy Along with the practice that during comes the cosentire time. tume prepara-- t What: The Nutcracker Her husband i o n When: Dec. 11, 12, Joe finally 7:30 p.m. encouraged Colledge's Dec. 12, 19 her to bring mother, Sarah 2 p.m. thedance back Price, began into her life. It Where: de Jong Concert Hall designing coson BYU campus tumes for Balwas at that let West when Cost: $12evening perforpoint Colledge mances considered danced with $10matinees teaching chilthem. She $1 discount for seniors, dren for the now serves as first time. students, and BYU faculty S h e members head Costume Tickets may be purchased by Mistress for opened a stufrom 10 am dio in the Utah Regional calling until 5 pm. Ballet. basement of Sarah's coswhat is now tumes supple Hutchings ment and work with the Museum in Lehi, and started dancer's line. They're also sewn calling and "begging" people with color and flow in mind. from Lehi to Pleasant Grove in Sarah's been known to pack an effort to find someone who home bolts of fabric she spied would be willing to take dance while vacationing overseas if from her. Her calls resulted in she figured would be perfect for her first six students. a certain character. By the end of her first year, Sarah works with a crew of however, Colledge had 100 stuseamstresses to make sure cos- dents. She is now teaching tumes are ready for the dancers about 285 children from on opening night. Nothing is throughout Utah Valley in her sewn part way or half done. private studio in American While the dancers practice, the Fork. seamstresses sew late into the The nonprofit Utah Regional Ballet is also Colledge's brain night. The Company of 45 Also happening months in child. advance is the preparation of dancers calls UVSC its home. There a large mirrored studio the set for the show. Bill has lent his talent to looks over the tennis courts and a set Colledge dancers can put on the final painting describes as being "just as beau- touches before tine performance. tiful up close as it is from the Putting on the production is a distance." family affair for the Colledges. Orchestra members under When Jackie's son Jed was six, the direction of Bryce Rytting she suggested they might try to can be found rehearsing far in give up doing the Nutcracker jljjjj 17-1- 9 Colledge 378-432- Kirk-patric- k A Lehi resident reported the theft of a vehicle from his residence; the keys had been left in the vehicle. Police listed the vehicle as stolen until the man called to request that the notification be canceled because he feared that a young relative was the culprit and did not want him involved in a possible pursuit with X ,4 f police. The man later changed his mind again and police again listed the vehicle as stolen. Utah Highway Patrol officers located the vehicle in Provo Canyon, where it was discovered that the driver was indeed the youth suspected of the crime. Officers took the suspect to youth detention, where he was charged with possession of stolen property, prior to being released to the custody of his parents. The vehicles of three employees of a local business were the targets of a burglary and vandalism case still under investigation by Lehi Police. The windows of all three cars were broken and the audio equipment from two of them were broken in the incident. Another employee gave police a statement explaining that she had seen two unknown males in the employee parking area, as well as additional unknown males loading items into a small f Jackie Colledge, artistic director of Utah Regional Ballet, rehearses The Nutcracker tor the upcoming production. and have a "normal" life. Jed replied, "Well, Mom, it just wouldn't be Christmas without the Nutcracker." Her husband and sons have helped build sets, and Colledge credits her husband Joe with taking over where she can't at home. Her son Matthew made and painted the nutcracker currently being used. "When I need help," Colledge says, "they're the ones I call." Colledge remembers with a smile, her company's first perof formance Nutcracker. Madame Ginger was being played by a tall man who came on stage with 3' tall dry wall stilts. Under his long skirt, the small children entered with him. Just as he was readying to step out onto stage, he caught one of the little girl's parasols underfoot. That threw him off balance and as he teetered between being in control and crushing the little children underneath him, he finally reached out and grabbed the curtain to steady himself. Colledge says after all these years she still has to close her eyes every night as that scene begins because in her mind she remembers that near accident. Another time years later, the young girl playing the part of Peterson Clara forgot which direction the flying snowflake went and sat down on it the wrong way, flying off stage backwards. The show gets better and better all the time, says Colledge. "The level of dancers has actually grown in the last two years," "0900 Large wave of Japanese bombers strafed Navy yard and ships present. 0910 Heavy bomb hit in water about 30 ft. Off port quarter, numerous fragment hit in a shell plating from fr120 port to stern, approximately fifty jagged holes through plating from Vi to 4" in diam., minor damage in warrant officers staterooms, no A Lehi man was booked into the Utah County Jail on charges of reckless driving, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, possession of methamphetamines with intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia in a drug-fre- e zone. In the same case, a second Lehi man was also jailed for possession of methamphetamines with intent to distribute, as well as contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The minor in the case was cited for curfew violation. Policed followed the suspect vehicle for several blocks before the driver seemed to attempt to elude the patrol car behind him. During a routine search of the vehicle once it was finally halted, officers noted items consistent with drug use, which led to the discovery of the items for which the two adults were charged. An Eagle Mountain man was booked into the Utah County Jail for speeding (53 mph in a 35 mph zone), driving on suspension and expired registration. Oh, did we mention the outstanding warrant from Salt Lake County? she. commented, speculating that comes as a result of the young children being taught now have live performers to emulate and pattern their own dancing after. Colledge teaches her students to compete with themselves and strive to make themselves better. "There's no point in wasting valuable time comparing themselves to others when they can be using that time to move forward and help themselves," she affirms. That is the attitude she has brought to Utah Valley's own rendition of Nutcracker. "Utah's grown so much," concludes Colledge, "that there's plenty of room for both performances." That fact is affirmed by the popularity of the Regional ballet's production at BYU which regularly plays to a sellout house. The magic will work its way once again into the hearts of adults and children alike as Nutcracker continues to grow its tradition in Utah Valley. Continued from front page heavy black smoke. car. apparent damage below water line. "Sounded all bottoms and tanks, sounding normal. The following named men injured during air raid..." The minutes, continue with names of injured, reports of continued, more severe damage from the bombs, and lists of names of personnel brought aboard for rescue. American Legion seeking items from servicewomen Unlike the Marines, the American Legion is looking for a few good women. Carl "Blackie" Harris, commander ofAmerican Legion Post 19, said the post, is seeking uniforms or other equipment worn by women who served in any of the US armed forces in any of war or other action from World Other documents Glen has include a copy of the "Instrument of Surrender," which was signed on the battleship Missouri on Sept. 2, 1945. Glen participated in the first major battle of the war, Pearl Harbor, and the final large conflict, Okinawa. His recollections from those years include many tales of comradeship and sacrifice, both of the servicemen and their families. Ward I until Desert Storm. Any member of the WACs, WAVEs or nursing corps units is invited to provide items to the musem to be placed on permant display in the Memorial Building, now home of the Hutchings Museum. To donate items, call Harris, 768-949- 3. "My parents sent five kids off to war," he recalled. "We didn't think of it as a sacrifice then, just as our duty." 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