Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker!
Directed by Ross MacGibbon25 december 2022 87mTV-film
5.5
With family-sized helpings of Matthew Bourne’s trademark wit, pathos and magical fantasy, Nutcracker! follows Clara’s bittersweet journey from a darkly comic Christmas Eve at Dr Dross’s Orphanage through a shimmering, ice-skating winter wonderland to the scrumptious candy kingdom of Sweetieland, influenced by the lavish Hollywood musicals of the 1930s. Tchaikovsky’s glorious score and Anthony Ward’s newly refreshed delectable sets and costumes combine with Bourne’s dazzling choreography to create a fresh and charmingly irreverent interpretation of the classic.
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Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! was released on 25 december 2022.
Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! was directed by Ross MacGibbon.
Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! has a runtime of 87m.
Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! was produced by Lucie Conrad.
With family-sized helpings of Matthew Bourne’s trademark wit, pathos and magical fantasy, Nutcracker! follows Clara’s bittersweet journey from a darkly comic Christmas Eve at Dr Dross’s Orphanage through a shimmering, ice-skating winter wonderland to the scrumptious candy kingdom of Sweetieland, influenced by the lavish Hollywood musicals of the 1930s. Tchaikovsky’s glorious score and Anthony Ward’s newly refreshed delectable sets and costumes combine with Bourne’s dazzling choreography to create a fresh and charmingly irreverent interpretation of the classic.
The key characters in Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! are Clara (Cordelia Braithwaite), Nutcracker (Harrison Dowzell), Sugar/ Princess Sugar (Ashley Shaw).
Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! is a TV-film film.