rival Nutcrackers at Canadian cinemas

[volcanohunter]

Here are trailers to the two Nutcrackers that will be screening at Canadian cinemas on Saturday, December 13.

National Ballet of Canada, choreography by James Kudelka, at Cineplex-Odeon theatres, 2:00 p.m. ET.

http://www.cineplex.com/Movies/MovieDetail...e_Noisette.aspx

Accoring to the National Ballet's web site, the scheduled cast is to feature Sonia Rodriguez as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Piotr Stanczyk as Peter/The Nutcracker, Xiao Nan Yu as the Snow Queen, Noah Long and Aarik Wells as her Icicles, Lorna Geddes as Baba and Kevin D. Bowles as Uncle Nikolai.

San Francisco Ballet, choreography by Helgi Tomasson, primarily at Empire Theatres, mostly at 1:00 p.m. local time.

http://centralsystem.digiscreen.ca/ShowPag...resentation=232

last year's trailer: http://www.digiscreen.ca/nutcracker/digiscreen.html

The cast features Damian Smith as Drosselmeyer, Elizabeth Powell as Clara, Maria Kochetkova as Clara in the grand pas de deux, Davit Karapetyan as the Nutcracker Prince, David Arce as the Mouse King, Yuan Yuan Tan as the Snow Queen, Pierre-François Vilanoba as the Snow King, Vanessa Zahorian as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Sarah Van Patten as the Genie, Nicolas Blanc in the Chinese dance and Pascal Molat as the lead Russian dancer.