Enhance your Christmas Season with
the Mid Ohio Valley Ballet’s performance of
The Nutcracker at the Lincoln Theater in New Martinsville
on Monday, Dec. 9 at 7 p.m.
Presented by ArtsLink and sponsored
by Riggenbach Tile & Carpet and Wetzel Valley Agencies, this
timeless classic will delight and entertain adults and children
alike as it fills the audience with the Christmas spirit.
Tickets will be available at the
door. For ArtsLink members, tickets are $10 for individuals and $15
for families; for non-members, $15 for individuals and $25 for
families. Student admission is $5. Children are welcome to don
their party dresses or other holiday finery for this event. Theater
parties are welcome with a discount for groups over ten
people.
The joy of Christmas is never more
evident than in
The Nutcracker. This whimsical ballet brings beautiful
fantasies, sugar plum dreams, and waltzing snowflakes to a very
large, adoring public. Parties, church celebrations, family and
friends, and
The Nutcracker are all part of the American Christmas
experience.
Based on the book by E.T.A. Hoffman,
the ballet follows the dreams of a little girl named Clara. At the
family Christmas party, her Godfather Drosselmeyer presents her
with a mysterious gift of a nutcracker, and her jealous little
brother, Fritz, promptly breaks it. As the guests depart, Clara
comes quietly back into the living room to see her nutcracker and
falls asleep there. Her dreams take her through a fierce battle
between the Mouse King and the Nutcracker, a visit to the Land of
the Sweets where candy dancers perform for her, and finally a
journey through the snow kingdom with whirling, dancing
snowflakes.
Mid Ohio Valley Ballet is a member of
and receives partial funding from Artsbridge, a cultural
development agency serving Wood County, WV, and Washington County,
OH.
Funding for this program made
possible with assistance from West Virginia Northern Community
College, WETZ/WYMJ Radio, EQT Foundation, Dominion Foundation, and
Ohio Valley Online. This program is presented with financial
assistance from the WV Department of Arts, Culture and History, and
the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the WV
Commission on the Arts. ArtsLink is committed to providing
universal accessibility wherever possible. Persons with special
needs may contact ArtsLink at 304-455-2278 for assistance.