David Bintley's Nutcracker sweeties / music, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn after Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky ; producer, Fiona Morris ; director, Peter Mumford ; a Dancelines production for BBC, NVC Arts.

Berlin : C Major Entertainment, 1997.

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Nutcracker Sweeties is Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington's big band attack on Tchaikovsky. It portrays Broadway and America in the 1940s; full of humour, irony, commentary, swing and blues. The cast, dressed in an array of glamorous Jasper Conran costumes, includes pom-pom girls, drum majorettes, sailors, GIs and Candy Kane. David Bintley's choreography is a catwalk of jazz styles. With its glamour-puss clothes and flashing neon set, Nutcracker Sweeties is imaginative, funny and visually irresistible.

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May 02, 2022

Choreography and the role of G.I. Bintley, David Bintley ; set design, Peter J. Davison ; costume design, Jasper Conran ; stage lighting design, Peter Mumford.

Silvia Jimenez, with Nao Sakuma, Karina Hernandez, Mikaela Polley, Reiko Miura (Candy Kane), Lei Zhao, Wolfgang Stollwitzer, with Toby Norman-Wright, Paul Bayes-Kitcher (The Volga Vouty), Monica Zammora (Sugar Rum Cherry), Rachel Peppin, Timothy Cross, Michael O'Hare (Buttons), Andrea Tredinnick, Robert Parker (Chinoiserie), Chenca Williams, Joseph Cipolla, with Victoria Marr, Elizabeth Gray, Oksana Selezneva, Isabel McMeekan, Rachel Hester, Samuel Armstrong, Shimon Kalichman, Richard Whistler, Oliver Hindle, Chi Cao (Waltz of the Floreadors), Leticia Müller, with Jonathan Payn, Dominic Antonucci, Andrew Murphy, Asier Uriagereka (Arabesque Cookie), Dorcas Walters, Kevin O'Hare (Peanut butter brittle) ; Paul Murphy, conductor.

Televised dance.