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Scene from: The Nutcracker Sweeties / The Judas Tree

Composer: Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (after Tchaikovsky), Brian Elias
Conductor: Paul Murphy / Barry Wordsworth

The Nutcracker Sweeties - The Birmingham Royal Ballet
Nutcracker Sweeties is Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington's big band attack on Tchaikovsky. Their reading of the light-footed, romantic ballet is full of humour, irony, commentary, swing and blues. Nutcracker Sweeties is all about Broadway and America in the 1940s. The cast, dressed in an array of glamorous Jasper Conran costumes, is full of pom-pom girls, drum majorettes, sailors, GI's and Candy Cane. A catwalk of jazz styles - imaginative, funny and visually irresistable.

The Judas Tree - The Royal Ballet
On a building site in dockland wastes, thirteen workmen react to the behaviour of a vampish woman who has arrived in their midst. In the heated confusion of the group, one man stands alone in the tenderness of his response. Gradually the dark underside of male sexuality and the power of peer pressure is exposed as the ballet sucks us into a web of betrayal, loss and terror. Set in London's Canary Wharf.

Principal dancers:
Monica Zamora, Silvia Jimenez, Chenca Williams, Joseph Cipolla, Irek Mukhamedov, Leanne Benjamin, Michael Nunn, Stuart Cassidy.

Catalogue: 3984243132

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