Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Birmingham Royal Ballet, Dancelines Productions, NVC Arts
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Nutcracker Sweeties
""A delicious extravaganza!""Movie
DirectorPeter Mumford
35 minMusic
Plot
Nutcracker Sweeties is Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington’s big band take on the Tchaikovsky classic—The Nutcracker as you've never seen or heard it before! It portrays Broadway and America in the 1940s: full of humor, irony, commentary, swing, and blues. The cast, dressed in an array of glamorous Jasper Conran costumes, includes pom-pom girls, drum majorettes, sailors, GIs and Candy Kane. David Bintley’s choreography is a catwalk of jazz styles. With its eye-catching clothes and flashing neon sets, Nutcracker Sweeties is imaginative, funny and visually irresistible.
