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The Nutcracker Suite (joke?)

posted 13 years ago by Pyromania
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I'm re-watching Fantasia right now and I just noticed the conductor saying "The Nutcracker Suite" is little performed nowadays, or something to that effect. Was he joking or am I confused as to what my local theatre performs every December? I mean, "The Nutcracker Suite" was the first ever live musical performance I ever saw on stage as a child.

...Don't look now, but I think the monotremes are out to get me...

[–] dogsoldier_spoon-1 13 years ago

Perhaps it wasn't performed that many times in the 1930s? The movie was made more than 70 years ago so who knows.

[–] mickeymouse100 13 years ago

Fantasia was first released in 1940. Nutcracker (the ballet) had not yet become the Christmas perennial until George Balanchine's production in the early 1950s made it so. So no, he (Deems Taylor, btw, not the conductor) was not joking: at the time the film was released, Nutcracker was hardly done in this country.