The Nutcracker on Ice

Editorial

Sydney
Where: Capitol Theatre
When: Wednesday 6 to Sunday 10 June, 2012
Tickets: Ph 1300 723 038 or www.ticketmaster.com.au

Canberra
Where: Canberra Theatre Centre
When: Wednesday 13 to Sunday 17 June, 2012
Tickets: Ph (02) 6275 2700 or www.canberratheatrecentre.com.au

Brisbane
Where: Lyric Theatre, QPAC
When: Wednesday 20 to Sunday 24 June, 2012
Tickets: Ph QPAC on 136 246

Adelaide
Where: Adelaide Festival Centre
When: Wednesday 18 to Sunday 22 June, 2012
Tickets: Ph Bass on 131 246

Melbourne
Where: The Arts Centre
When: Wednesday 25 to Sunday 29 June, 2012
Tickets: Ph The Arts Centre on 1300 182 183

Oh, go on. Laugh it up loud. Yes, the idea of ice ballet is patently ludicrous. The execution, however, can be quite lovely. Just as long as you stop giggling at the fabulously tacky suffix “on ice”.

While it’s entirely true that Christmas is the season in which we prefer our nuts so elegantly cracked, it’s more climatically apt that these skaters are spinning around to Tchaikovsky in our southern winter.

See champions of Australian and European ice competition dressed as mice, Prince Regents and Sugar Plum Fairies stay true, more or less, to the original choreography of Ivanov.

Helen Razer, Citysearch

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