The Nutcracker

[Sarah]

Hi!
I loooooove the Nutcracker, and I really love The Doll Nutcracker! I was wondering what everybody's favorite song or dance is in either the Doll Nutcracker or the "people" Nutcracker. I have seen a couple of versions of the Nutcracker, but my Grandma taped one in the 80's or so that is my absolute favorite! The girl playing Clara is just how I would imagine she looks like and Uncle Drosselmeyer is so very mysterious! But of course, I enjoyed the Doll Nutcracker thoroughly as well! Although all the songs are wonderful, my favorite is probably the Spanish Chocolate song and the sugar plum fairy song! And my favorite dance(s) is the sugar plum fairy (from the doll Nutcracker), the snowflakes(from the real and the doll Nutcracker) and Polichinelle's Dance (in both as well, but the real one has many clowns/jesters) I watched one Nutcracker on Ice and it was (in my opinion) Terrible! It was really weird, in the, as they called it, "Candyland", there were dancing cupcakes and tea cakes, and very funny looking props, which is very unusual, for me since I love every version I see, hehehe! Last year when I got the Doll Nutcracker, I watched about every other night with my cup of coco! The bonus features of it let you see a great insite of the "Magic" that goes into it! If nobody has ever seen the Nutcracker, watch it and see how wonderful it is.
-sarah ;D

[Hannah]

my faverite song is chinese tea it has a very nice jump to it

[Melissa]

I love the Nutcracker as well. It's the only ballet I've seen but is my favorite I've seen two productions in person. I love the costumes-esp. what the party girls wear. I also love the Doll Nutcracker of course! It's been wicked helpful in my own Selections from the Nutcracker that my dolls do. (If I take it it'll just be a couple songs because I ran out of time rehearsing it. Some days I wasn't motivated or had other things and I wound up being at my cousin's an extra day this week. So the recital as a whole is basically going to be improvved-my friend and my mom don't mind of course. But I've got 2 or 3 dances I can put up on youtube once I film them).

Anyhoo, my favorite songs are the Nutcracker March (March of The Toys on the CD I have) and the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Also The Russian and Chinese dances (those are two of my favorites to make my stuffed animals perform. I can't have dolls perform it because the two stuffed animals I use do forward someraults at the same time-something the dolls aren't as good at, lol).