News from the East!

News arrives from longtime friend and associate of the MRJEFF3000 organization Dan Renkin. We reproduce his correspondence here:

If your circle of friends & family includes younger children--
--or if you consider yourself to still BE a younger child!--

Come see Dan Renkin dance Drosselmeyer for New York Theatre Ballet!

THE NUTCRACKER at Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street
Performances at 11:00 am, 1:00 pm, 3:30 pm
Saturday, Dec. 13th & 20th
Sunday, Dec. 14th & 21st

Choreographer: Keith Michael
Music: Peter Tchaikovsky
Costumes: Sylvia Taalsohn Nolan
Sets: Gilllian Bradshaw-Smith

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New York Theatre Ballet's one-hour production of The Nutcracker is
designed especially for children and families. It is based on lithographs from
the English Toy Theatre or "Juvenile Drama" of the early 19th Century.

Hundreds of operas and plays were at that time produced in the form of
paper cut-out books, complete with sets, properties, characters, and costume
changes. Offered in either "penny plain" (black and white line drawings) or
"two-pence coloured" (elegant multi-colored lithographs), a child's toy
theatre helped many an afternoon in the nursery pass with industry and
imagination.

NYTB's Nutcracker premiered at the Riverside Dance Festival in New York
City in 1984 and has since been presented to hundreds of thousands of people
in the New York City region and across the United States.
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"Dan Renkin's benevolent Drosselmeyer and Elena Zahlmann's Clara were
the standouts...the NYTB "Nutcracker" offers a warm and inviting community
feeling and generous spirit..."
--The Dance Insider

"A perfect welcome to the enchanted worlds of The Nutcracker and the
ballet..."
-- New York Newsday

"Why The Nutcracker? There's joy in the Nutcracker. Ask any of the
4,000 people who packed New York's Winter Garden, to watch a condensed
version performed by New York Theatre Ballet. In the first row a two-year-old
sat on her mother's lap, transfixed. She looked around only once, when the
snow scene began, in the most wonderful moment of the Nutcracker season."
-- Newsweek

" ...the production is charming. The children in the audience--and they
were packed to the rafters--adored the ballet."
-- Village Voice
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Information & Box Office:
212-355-6160

Ticketmaster: 212-307-4100
[From Ticketmaster, specify the one-hour
Nutcracker at Gould Hall of the French Institute]

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http://www.danrenkin.com