"A goofy, good-natured spoof of the Christmas classic." - NY Times "a wacky and wonderful escape from reality" - The Home News Tribune
BARCLAY Performing Arts and the Boca Black Box team up this holiday season to bring you a new musical comedy created by Tony Award and Drama Desk Award winning writer-lyricist Gerard Alessandrini (writer of the long running FORBIDDEN BROADWAY) with Emmy Award and Writers Guild Award winning book writer Peter Brash. Based on the Christmas classic, "The Nutcracker and I" is a modern re-telling of a timeless fairy tale with an updated story that mirrors and satirizes Tchaikovsky's beloved ballet. Completely contemporary with hysterical new lyrics in the style of "Forbidden Broadway," yet also romantic and filled with Christmas spirit, the show is a hilarious holiday spoof. Family-friendly like "Beauty and the Beast" but with the irreverent, cheeky humor of the popular "Toy Story" movies, this miniature Nutcracker musical -- with original book and lyrics set to world-famous Christmas music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- is full of show-stopping memorable melodies that bring on gales of riotous laughter.
At a chaotic dress rehearsal for the local dance company’s annual production of The Nutcracker Ballet, the lead dancer has an unfortunate accident with a prop Christmas Tree -- bringing new meaning to the old adage “Break-A-Leg!” When the pain killers kick in and visions of sugar plums begin to dance in her head, we’re off for a wild adventure in Snow Globe City with a life sized Nutcracker (of course) and the Sugar Rush Fairy in hot pursuit. A wacky, wonderful holiday comedy -- complete with magic nuts and mistletoe!
Get your Nutcracker fix with a big side of laughter this December... exclusively at the Boca Black Box!
Read what the NY Times had to say! http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/nyregion/george-street-hosts-parody-the-nutcracker-and-i.html
For more information about THE NUTCRACKER AND I visit www.thenutcrackerandi.com