Anyone who comes in contact with Chris during December knows his fascination and adoration of the ballet "The Nutcracker". The House of Gordon is adorned with the wooden figures come Christmastime. Tooling around on TV after Monday Night Football while doing laundry as Kimberly slumbers for her 4:40am wakeup on Christmas day (whew, a househusband's job is NEVER done), I stumbled across a 12am showing of the winner of the "Battle of the Nutcrackers".
Apparently, Ovation TV, a culture and arts station, had run 4 different interpretations of the ballet this past month and viewers could vote for their choice. I must say, the winner has an interesting take. Ovation TV is yet another nifty channel on our DirecTV listing.
If you missed it like we did, there will be an encore performance of all four performances later today on Christmas day. Fire up the TiVo! It stinks that we both work day shift and will miss them, but hey, we both DID volunteer to do so. So a commercial-free TiVo'd version of all four ballets is in our future very soon after work.
Here is the lineup:
8am - George Balachine's The Nutcracker
10am - Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker
12pm - Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker
2pm - Mark Norris: The Hard Nut
Hopefully you'll be able to see them!
1 comment:
While not big on the actual ballet or any interpretations...I can listen to the "Soundtrack" forever during the Christmas season. I have Valery Gergiev and the Kirov orchestra's version on CD and I wear it out every year. I do catch one of the regional ballets (Columbus or Mansfield) every couple of years.
Love,
Duke
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