Show Nutcracker ballet Bollet A gain Scheduled of at University of Utah During Next Week The traditional University of Utah Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Ballot Ballet will take place this year on the Kingsbury Hall stage December 26 27 28 29 and 31 For the past eight years this annual presentation by the University Uni Uni- University Ballet Company has brought delight to thousands and end thousands of as the entertainment highlight of the holiday hollday season The fl full I corps of the University University sity of Utah Ballet Ballot Company augmented by a group of young dancers brings the total company company company com com- pany for this production to members This years year's guest stars will be Michael Maule and Colleen Col Col- ken leen This will be Michael Maule's third performance as ashe the ithe he Cavalier In the university I production of Nutcracker Ballet Bal Bal- let Jet The Utah Symphony Orchestra Orches Orches- tra under the baton of Maurice Abravanel will wiIl perform the richly richly richly rich rich- ly melodic Tchaikovsky music for the Nutcracker ker Ballet Ballet director William F. F Christensen when asked why theater goers return to see tho the Nutcracker year after year replied replied re re- re plied The warmth that comes across the footlights to every Nutcracker audience and makes Kingsbury Hall hail glow with holiday holiday holiday holi holi- day enjoyment originates with the host of young dancers who perform every year in this Christmas classic Every year since 1955 when the Nutcracker tradition first took root In Utah a company f n o more than dancers dancers almost almost half of them young children children- capers through the Nutcracker first set Christmas party as merry and mischievous as if there were no audience out front from looking on at the fun Every night of the Nutcracker run ron Is 13 Isa isa a Christmas party as real and andas as gay as any of the other parties par par- ties that highlight these youngsters youngsters youngsters' youngsters youngsters' young young- holiday season They are with friends they enjoy their surroundings are festive and Tchaikovsky's m music u s sl i c carries them along Into key high-key pleas- pleas ures The Nutcracker Ballet lIllet tells tell the story of the little girl Clara and of the Christmas Eve party where she Is given a wonderful gift of a unique Nutcracker In Inthe Inthe Inthe the night of dreams following ing the gaiety of the party patty Clan Clams Nutcracker f grows larger than size life-size as do her dolls and other toys where a world of fantasy comes to life on the stage In Claras Clara's dream the Nutcracker Is transformed Into a Prince who I takes her on a most fabulous journey Into snowflake land where glistening snow maidens dance for her pleasure Then she sheds Is ds whisked to the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy where greeted greet greet- ed and treated ted like royalty Clara revels in true dreams Inthe Inthe In hi hithe the world of Christmas Tickets for the Nutcracker Ballet may be ordered from the Fieldhouse Central Ticket Office University of Utah evening prices 4 3 2 matinees 3 |