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The Nutcracker On Ice Tony Mercer, Evgeny Platov, Maxim Staviski, designers scenic designer Eamon D’Arcy and Albina Gabueva at ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre, Auckland From 3 Jul 2012 to 8 Jul 2012 [90 mins] Reviewed by Bernadette Rae, 5 Jul 2012 originally published in NZ Herald |
Spectacular, bedazzling, vertiginous with talent, amazing, the Imperial Ice Stars' performance of The Nutcracker surely courts danger! The stage seems small and Row H in the ASB Theatre feels perilously close as the cast of 26 hit the ice en masse, while Tchaikovsky's famous ballet score is played at speed and flurries of snow fling upwards at the very last moment, right on the edge, with a distinct "chunk" as artists hurl themselves into sudden, gob-smacking stops.
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