PORT ANGELES — Tickets are on sale now for a North Olympic Peninsula-style staging of “The Nutcracker” on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Sunday, Dec. 8.
Set in the great depression of 1895 in Clallam County, the story follows the adventure of young Marie and her brother Frank, who are given a magical gift of a nutcracker at the family’s Christmas Eve barn dance in the foothills near Hurricane Ridge.
As festivities come to an end, Marie and Frank are taken on an epic journey with the Nutcracker Prince to a fairy-tale land where Sugar Plums dance and lavender sparkles in every field.
The production will be presented at 7 p.m. Dec 7 and at 2 p.m. Dec. 8 at the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center, 304 E. Park Ave.
Advance tickets range from $18 to $38 with youth 14 and under admitted for $10 each. They are available at jffa.org and at Port Book and News in Port Angeles and Dungeness Kids Co. in Sequim.
Tickets at the door will be $5 more.
Ballet Workshop’s original staging of “The Nutcracker” will join together more than 90 local ballet students, theatrical performers and principal dancers from the Pacific Northwest Ballet.
Set to Tchaikovsky’s traditional Nutcracker score, the homegrown production pays tribute to on the Peninsula at the turn of the century.
The Ballet Workshop is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. That makes it the oldest ballet academy on the Olympic Peninsula.
For the past five years, the Ballet Workshop and Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts have worked in partnership to present ballets.
