Tuesday, December 04, 2018
Tradition Reimagined: A Review of the Joffrey Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” at the Auditorium Theatre
www.newcitystage.com: The Joffrey Ballet is one of many dance companies to recognize and respond to this cultural need in its redesign of this treasured classic. Now in its third season, Tony award-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s “Nutcracker” was envisioned specifically with Chicago viewers in mind. The new version is set within the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and was inspired by a historic picture of a wooden clapboard shack on the construction site of the fair’s White City.
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Humbug I say, and Humbug I mean. I just do not like this show. I go to theatre or ballet, especially at Christmas time for a healthy dose of escapism. I do not need a piece about single-parent poverty in my Nutcracker, and there is no need to identify with those people either, they do not want to be reminded either. My mother’s childhood was not wealthy and for a period not even middle class, and the joy and harmony and wealth of the Stahlbaums’ was something to dream about and hope one day to experience. The Nutcracker is about hope, if you want a moralistic story walk down the street the Goodman for a healthy dose of Charles Dickens’ morals. It doesn’t glitter, it doesn’t sparkle, it doesn’t have the charm of any other version, and the Nutcracker himself looks like he’s been in a fire and had his varnish stripped off, it is freaky. Take it to Seattle or Austin or anywhere else Wheeldon not in my kind of town Chicago.
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