If Halloween is incomplete without watching “Nightmare Before Christmas,” Thanksgiving a bust if you miss The Macy’s Parade, then what would the Christmas holiday season be without the familiar sights […]
Nutcracker
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INTRODUCTIONS: Meet Zack Frongillo and Jillian Ley
Zack is a guest artist for Savannah Ballet Theatre, and Jillian is a company member. They both just closed out performances in SBT’s production of “Sleepy Hollow” at the Tybee […]
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Go nuts!
In Savannah, there are two unique productions of The Nutcracker — one professional, one not — on the same day, in different theaters, every year. It’s a holiday tradition, as predictable as the ingredients in a Paula Deen pound cake.
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The plum diary
Everybody dance now! In The Nutcracker, a little girl named Clara has a series of increasingly strange (some might say pseudo–psychedelic) dreams in which toys come to life and dance, […]
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Mark your calendar: The Nutcracker marathon
Once again, Savannah’s getting a pre–Christmas treat from the world of ballet — two versions of The Nutcracker on the same day. This is starting to become a slightly surreal […]
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Mixed ‘Nutcrackers’
The big thing in Savannah theaters this Thanksgiving weekend is … Christmas! That’s right, we’ll barely have the leftover turkey tucked into Ziploc bags before The Nutcracker, that venerable dance […]
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Mark your calendar: Upright Citizens comedy
The Touring Company of the Upright Citizens Brigade, an improv comedy troupe, stops into the Lucas Theatre for a just–announced show Oct. 5. The company has produced prodigious talents you’ve […]
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No place like home
The title is The Nutcracker in Savannah, but it might as well be called The Savannah in Nutcracker. Because there’s an awful lot of Savannah in this elaborate retelling of […]
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Get crackin’
It’s last call at Club Sweets. Saturday’s performance of Swingin’ at Club Sweets will be the final one for the young dance students of The Studio. Director Veronica Moretti Niebuhr […]
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‘A full-length ballet that makes sense’
It’s a safe bet that not too many young people today know what a nutcracker is (it’s a simple mechanical device for cracking the shells of nuts, to get to […]
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Sweet diversion
WILLIAM STARRETT says don’t let the name fool you. Despite being based in South Carolina’s capital city, his Columbia City Ballet is “esconced” in Savannah. In fact, the troupe has […]
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Noteworthy shows this week
Carroll, Houlihan, Lashley & Bray Self-proclaimed “HardFolk” artist Julia Carroll is extremely psyched about this upcoming four-way gig at one of the city’s most eclectic performance spaces. “Recently, there’s been […]