"Not Just Nutcracker...Classic Edition"

Jump start your Holiday Spirit by attending this full length Nutcracker production. Enjoy dancers from Grafton and surrounding towns, as they make this a Not so Average Nutcracker! Dance It Up! will be hosting this splendid event on Saturday, December 5th at 2:00PM at the Grafton High School. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased in advance over the phone or at the door.

This is a great, family friendly performance, perfect for kids ages 2 to 99! Enjoy a variety of dance techniques, including Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Contemporary, and Acrobatic Dance! We guarantee that we will have you dancing in your seats! We invite you to come take a journey with us on a magical adventure...

It is a Christmas Eve in the 1800’s, and the Stahlbaum home is bustling. Louise, Fritz, Clara, friends and parents enjoy the festivities but nothing is quite as special as the life-sized dolls brought by Godfather Drosselmeyer. Clara’s gift is not one of these, but a little wooden, magical nutcracker doll. Fritz gets carried away and breaks it. It is quickly patched up, but Clara vows to take special care of it from then on.

Around midnight, Clara sneaks out of bed to check on her nutcracker, when Godfather Drosselmeyer suddenly appears. He frightens her with tales of mice coming out of the walls and toys coming to life. She suddenly feels very tired, and drifts off to sleep right there on the sofa, with her nutcracker tightly wrapped in her arms. Moments later, Godfather Drosselmeyer’s story comes to life! A battle ensues between the mice and the Nutcracker’s soldiers. Her

Nutcracker comes to life too, tallest of all, to fend off the Mouse King. The

battle continues until Clara throws her shoe and strikes the Mouse King.

The Nutcracker asks Clara to visit his home. They travel through a forest of dancing Snowflakes, across a lake of Lemonade, to the shores of a Kingdom of Sweets ruled by the Sugarplum Fairy and Prince Coqueluche. She is entertained by Chocolate, Coffee, Tea, Mirlitons, Peppermint, Ginger, the Dewdrop and her Flowers, Plum Pavlova, and the entire kingdom at the Sugar Plum Social. After all that sweetness, Clara is exhausted and thanks them, but falls fast asleep. She wakes up on her own sofa, with her nutcracker still in her arms, and discovers that the magical gift from Godfather Drosselmeyer was the dream she will never forget.