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Show U Ballet Theatre To Present 'Nutcracker Suite Now a holiday season tradition in Salt Lake City, the 4th annual presentation of the complete "Nutcracker Ballet" by the University Uni-versity of Utah Theatre Ballet, the Utah Symphony Orchestra, and the University of Utah Music Mu-sic Department will be presented at the Kingsbury Hall between Christmas and New Year's, Dec. 26, 27, 29, 30 and 31, it was announced an-nounced by William F. Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, director and choregra-pher choregra-pher of the University Theatre Ballet. The announcement was made at a luncheon for the press held by University of Utah Theatre Ballet Society with Dr. W. Harold Har-old Horton, president of the society so-ciety presiding. Evening performances will be at 8:30 p.m., except for New Year's Eve, when the starting time will be moved up to 8:00 p.m. to allow people desiring to attend New Year's Eve parties to be out of Kingsbury Hall by 9:30. Matinee performances at 2:00 p.m. are slated for Saturday, Satur-day, Dec. 27 and Monday, Dec. 29. The matinee performances will be at reduced prices to accommodate ac-commodate the heavy demand written by Tschaikowsky, will be presented by the complete Utah Symphony Orchestra of 70 members under the baton of the Maestro Maurice Abravanel, musical mu-sical director and conductor. A choral group of 16 feminine voices from the University of Utah choirs will complete the roster of performers. "Sereta Jones, University of Utah Theatre costume designer, and her staff are creating new and beautiful costumes for almost al-most the entire second act," Mr. Christensen explained. "Also, Vern Adix, our art director, and his crew are preparing many exciting ex-citing new stage settings for our Ballet this year. Dr. Horton, Ballet Society President, pointed out that the first American presentation of the complete Nutcracker Ballet was directed by Mr. Christensen in San Francisco in 1944. He explained ex-plained that Salt Lake City today to-day enjoys the unique position of being the only city in America presenting this festive Christmas ballet with full orchestration in its complete musical form just as Tschaikowsky first conceived it. A few other large U. S. cities and the CBS network present excerpts from the Ballet each Christmas time but none of them present it in its entirety. i Over the years the Nutcracker Suite, a collection of musical excerpts from the complete Nut- ' cracker Ballet has become the gerat favorite of concert-goers. The complete score, which will be presented in the Kingsbury production, is one of Tschaikow-sky's Tschaikow-sky's most interesting works. It was his third and last ballet. I For many years after its first .presentation in St. Petersburg, , Russia, in 1892, the Ballet was I presented only occasionally. But I in 1943 the Vic-Wells Company in London, forerunner of today's famed "Sadler-Wells Royal Ballet", Bal-let", revived the complete ballet. bal-let. It has been gaining in popularity popu-larity ever since and all three of the previous performances at Kingsbury Hall on the campus have been almost complete sellouts. sell-outs. i I "The advance demand for Nutcracker Nut-cracker Ballet tickets began this year earlier than ever," Geoffrey Circuit, business director of the I University of Utah Performing ! Arts, said. The box office, Room 210, Kingsbury Hall, is now accepting ac-cepting mail orders and tickets are also availablefrom some members of the Ballet Society. Ticket information can be secured se-cured by phoning EM 3-2033. for lower priced tickets for the school children. Stars of the San Francisco Ballet, Sally Bailey and Richard Carter, have been signed as the guest artists to perform the solo roles of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Cavalier to the Sugar Plum Fairy. Miss Bailey and Mr. Carter Car-ter will arrive in Salt Lake City Christmas night. Both of them have appeared in the same roles at Kingsbury Hall before and have been great favorites of Utah ballet patrons. Tickets went on sale at the Kingsbury Hall ticket office on Monday, Dec. 8 and at the Tribune Trib-une box office Dec. 18. Kingsbury Kings-bury Hall office, room 210, will be open from 9 to 5 daily, the Tribune Building ticket office from 9 to 6 daily and from 9 to 3 on Saturdays. In addition to the visiting stars, the Nutcracker Ballet will be performed by 70 members of the University of Utah Theatre Ballet Bal-let under the direction of Mr. Christensen and with Ron Ross as assistant director. The music, |