Nutcracker Final.pdf - Fox Cities Performing Arts Center

The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
presents
MAKAROFF YOUTH BALLET’S
The Nutcracker Ballet
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Featuring Fox Valley Symphony and White Heron Chorale
CREATIVE TEAM
Choreographer
Jeanette Makaroff
Music Director
Brian Groner
Costumes
David Alban, Jeanette Makaroff,
Friends of Makaroff Youth Ballet and Milwaukee Ballet Company
Set Designer Lighting Designer
Richmond Frielund Jason Lienhard
Stage Managers
Chelsea Seremeta and Jen Smith
Technical Director
David Owens
Fox Cities P.A.C. Production Coordinator Makaroff Youth Ballet Executive Director
Amy Gosz Linda Drezdzon
December 8 – 9, 2012
18e
Locally sponsored by
Photograph by Woodrow Leung

SYNOPSIS
Act I
The story of The Nutcracker takes place in the 1850s in a German town on Christmas Eve. Clara’s family
has just hosted a grand Christmas party. Herr Drosselmeyer, Clara’s godfather, and his nephew join in the
festivities. Herr Drosselmeyer is a toymaker and magician who enjoys teasing the children with disappointing
gifts and redeems himself by bringing his wonderful dancing dolls to life. Drosselmeyer has brought a special
gift for Clara, a toy Nutcracker in the shape of a soldier prince. The present is Clara’s favorite.
During the party Clara’s brother, Fritz, plays roughly with the Nutcracker and breaks it. Clara carefully
puts her wounded Nutcracker into her doll bed before going upstairs to her own bed.
That night Clara dreams that mice fight a terrible battle with the toy soldiers. The Nutcracker joins the
battle but is overcome by the Mouse Queen. Clara saves him by throwing her shoe at the Mouse Queen. The
Nutcracker is instantly transformed from a wooden toy to a handsome prince. He is so happy to be saved
by Clara that he invites her to accompany him on a journey to the Land of the Sugar Plum Fairy.
Act II
Arriving in the Land of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Clara and the Nutcracker Prince are greeted by the Sugar Plum
Fairy and her court of flowers. They are so pleased with Clara that dancers from many lands are invited to
entertain her. Finally, their dances draw Clara’s lovely dream to a peaceful close.
Act I
Herr Drosselmeyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MJ Marsh
His Nephew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saul Roselaar
Dolls . . . . . . . . . . Brooke Bayer, Reagan Blohowiak
and Naomi Roselaar
Fritz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liam Mayo
Clara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elisabeth Lasecki
Dr. Silverhaus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Raymond Hestres
Mrs. Silverhaus . . . . . . . . . . . . Kimberly Blohowiak
Party Guests . . . . . . . . . . . John Bartow, Terry Ertl,
Scott Felten, Steve Helphrey, Sarah Hestres,
Rachel Knighten, Kathryn Melchior
and Sara Mittlestadt
Party Children . . . . . Kaylann Adler, Brooke Bates,
Eden Bayer, Kylie Boesch,
Jaliana Griesbach, Caroline Holmes,
Keanna Schulz and Sophie Ulman
Maids . . . . . . . Abbey DesRochers, Lauren Koenen
and Rachel Westra
Grandmother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Juanita Makaroff
Grandfather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Terry Irwin
Mice . . . . . . . . . . . . Madylin Butler, Isabel Hestres,
Caroline Kiesnowski, Erika Krupka,
Eva Mae Miller, Magdalene Nolan,
Sylvia Polansky and Gretta Tripp
Mouse Queen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Naomi Roselaar
Soldiers . . . . . . . . Brooke Bates, Jaliana Griesbach,
Caroline Holmes, Lauren Katchem,
Emily Mead, Lily Mittlestadt
and Annika Schmidt
Snow Queen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashlee Bormes
Snow Flakes . . . . . . . . .Brooke Bayer, Payton Bayer,
Mandy Behm, Aspen Bormes,
Blake Bormes, Breanna Brzezinski,
Rebecca Fitton, Mallory Garrison,
Rachel Hyland, Maria Konecke,
Kyra Meidam and Lauren Twomey
~Intermission~
Brooke Bayer
Payton Bayer
Mandy Behm
Reagan Blohowiak
CAST OF THE NUTCRACKER BALLET
(in order of appearance)
Aspen Bormes
Blake Bormes
Breanna Brzezinski
Rebecca Fitton
COMPANY DANCERS
18f
Act II
Sugar Plum Fairy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leta Biasucci
Her Cavalier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kyle Davis
Dew Drop Fairy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Fitton
Angels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reagan Blohowiak
and Madeline Hunsader
Ladies in Waiting . . . . . . . . . . Kimberly Blohowiak,
Sarah Hestres, Katie Melchior
and Sara Mittlestadt
Flower Attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brooke Bayer,
Breanna Brzezinski, Abbey DesRochers
and Rachel Westra
Spanish . . . . . . . . Rachel Hyland and Kyra Meidam
Arabian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aspen Bormes
Chinese. . . . . . . . . . . . . Payton Bayer, Mandy Behm
and Blake Bormes
Russian . . . . . . . Mallory Garrison, Maria Konecke,
Naomi Roselaar and Lauren Twomey
Shepherdess . . . . . . . . . . Brooke Bates, Eden Bayer,
Jaliana Griesbach and Keanna Schulz
Sheep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lauren Koenen
Wolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madeline Hunsader
Lead Flowers. . . . . . . . Payton Bayer, Mandy Behm,
Rachel Hyland and Kyra Meidam
Flowers . . . . . . . . . . . Brooke Bayer, Aspen Bormes,
Blake Bormes, Breanna Brzezinski,
Mallory Garrison, Maria Konecke,
Naomi Roselaar and Lauren Twomey
Mother Ginger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rachel Knighten
Her Children. . . . . . . . . . . . Lily Bayer, Chiara Cole,
Ana Guttormsen, Sophia Krupka,
Callie McCann and Tali Roselaar
Clowns . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaylann Adler, Kylie Boesch
and Sophie Ulman
Mallory Garrison
Madeline Hunsader
Rachel Hyland
Maria Konecke
Elisabeth Lasecki
Kyra Meidam
Naomi Roselaar
Lauren Twomey

Soprano
Bess Calhoun
Monica Coenen
Traci Diehl
Phyllis Klee
VIOLIN
Yuliya Smead,
Concertmaster
Yuri Segawa,
Assistant Concertmaster
Danielle Simandl,
Assistant Principal Second
Erik Leveille
Jennifer Coopman
Melissa Gurholt
Sarah Koenigs
Audrey Nowak
David Rubin
Brian Sas
Lori Murphy
Nori Kalman
Amir Rosenbaum
VIOLA
Barbara Beechey, Principal
Theresa Abler,
Assistant Principal
Lyndsey McMillan
Nancy Rickhoff
Sonya Schilcher
Mary Schmidt
LETA BIASUCCI* (Sugar Plum Fairy)
is from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She
studied under Marcia Dale Weary at
Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and
became a trainee at San Francisco
Ballet School in 2006. She joined
Oregon Ballet Theatre in 2008.
Biasucci joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member
of the corps de ballet in 2011.
Biasucci has performed leading roles in George
Balanchine’s Coppélia (Swanilda, Waltz of the Golden
Hours) and Divertimento from “Le Baiser de la Fée,
Alexei Ratmansky’s Don Quixote (Cupid), Kent
Stowell’s Carmina Burana and Cinderella, and
Christopher Wheeldon’s Variations Sérieuses (Young
Girl). She has also danced featured roles in Ronald
Hynd’s The Sleeping Beauty (Red Riding Hood).
At Oregon Ballet Theatre, Biasucci performed
leading and featured roles in George Balanchine’s
Emeralds, The Four Temperaments, The Nutcracker, and
Tarantella; Nicolo Fonte’s Left Unsaid; James Kudelka’s
Hush; Trey McIntyre’s Speak; Yuri Possokov’s
Raymonda and Dennis Spaight’s Gloria. She originated
leading roles in the collaborative Stravinsky Project by
Jamey Hampton, Anne Mueller, Ashley Roland, and
Rachel Tess and Christopher Stowell’s A Holiday Revue.
KYLE DAVIS* (Cavalier) is from Green
Bay, Wisconsin. He trained at Makaroff
School of Ballet and on scholarship at
Rock School for Dance Education and
North Carolina School of the Arts, and
he attended summer courses on
WHITE HERON CHORALE
T.J. Hull
Emma Cifrino
Maija Anstine
CELLO
Laura Kenney Henckel,
Principal
Catherine Smith,
Assistant Principal
Carrie Willer
Kim Souther
Heather Anderson
David Veum
BASS
Susan Sullivan, Principal
Ronna Swift
Scott Breyer
FLUTE
Linda Nielsen Korducki,
Principal
Beth Kinzel
18g
Alto
Tammy M. Kasten
Christine Krause
Naomi Laabs
FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY
Suzanne Bunker Jordheim,
Flute/Piccolo
OBOE
Jennifer Hodges Bryan,
Principal
John Andrew Olson
Leslie Outland Michelic,
English horn
CLARINET
David Bell, Principal
Penny Paiser Wilson, bass
BASSOON
Patricia Holland, Principal
Sharon Peterson
HORN
Valerie Whitney
Keith Powell
Elizabeth Olson
Paul Litterio
FEATURED PERFORMERS
Melissa Mast
Lisa Roskom
TRUMPET
Michael Henckel, Principal
Rand Skelton
TROMBONE
Roy Fine
Eric Larsen, bass
TUBA
James Thaldorf
PERCUSSION
James Robl
Scott Elford
TYMPANI
Paul Ristau
KEYBOARD
James Maverick
HARP
Kelsey Molinari
scholarship at Milwaukee Ballet School, the School of
American Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. He
has also studied with Ethan Stiefel and Warren Conover.
In 2008, Davis won the Prix de Lausanne competition in
Lausanne, Switzerland. He also won various awards in
the Youth America Grand Prix Regional and Finals in
2005 and 2006. He was a 2007-2008 recipient of the
Elizabeth Harriet Weaver Memorial Scholarship and the
Martha and Spencer Love Foundation Scholarship for
Excellence in the Arts at the North Carolina School of the
Arts. Davis joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an
apprentice in 2008 and was promoted to corps de ballet
in 2009.
Davis has performed leading roles in George
Balanchine’s Divertimento from “Le Baiser de la Fée,
Marco Goecke’s Place a Chill, Ronald Hynd’s The
Sleeping Beauty (Bluebird pas de deux, Gold and Silver
pas de trois), Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette
(Benvolio), Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Cylindrical
Shadows and Kent Stowell’s Cinderella (Jester) and Swan
Lake (Jester). He has performed featured roles in George
Balanchine’s Symphony in C and Stowell’s Carmina
Burana and Nutcracker.
ASHLEE BORMES (Snow Queen)
Growing up in Neenah, Wisconsin,
Ashlee began dancing and became a
devoted student at Makaroff School of
Ballet, where she trained for ten years.
She supplemented her training at
various summer programs including
Gelsey Kirkland Academy, Martha Graham School,
Ellison Ballet, San Francisco Ballet School, Joffrey

Chicago, and Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. While
dancing with Makaroff Youth Ballet, she performed in
The Nutcracker, The Brementown Musicians,
Renderings and many others. Currently, Ashlee attends
Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, where
she pursues a degree in Dance as well as Biochemistry.
Her most recent performances include Mel
Tomlinson’s premier of Le Coeur de Ballet as well as a
premiere choreographed by Adam Hougland entitled,
Five Preludes. She is thrilled to return and perform The
Nutcracker with Makaroff Youth Ballet and hopes the
magical performance leaves the audience filled with
the joyful passion of the holiday season.
MJ MARSH (Herr Drosselmeyer) is
happy to be home. A native of
Appleton, he has been living in
Minneapolis for three years performing
with Bearded Men Improv and is a new
addition to Comedy Sportz Twin
Cities. He would like to thank the
Makaroff Youth Ballet for having him back to play one
of his favorite roles.
TERRY L. IRWIN (Grandfather) started his ballroom
dancing career as a dance instructor at Arthur Murray
Dance Studio in Cincinnati, Ohio 35 years ago and has
since developed numerous ballroom dancers into
national champions with whom he shares several titles.
Terry has been the principal choreographer for TC
Dance Club and the Dayton Arthur Murray Studio stage
productions for 16 years. Terry has also choreographed
and performed in Bob Hopes’ last U.S. Tour, as well as
several Miss America Pageants, and the Franki Valli and
the Four Seasons Tour. Terry owns and operates TC
Dance Club in Appleton.
JUANITA MAKAROFF (Grandmother), along with her
husband Nikolai, taught ballet in the Fox Cities
beginning in 1960. She directed the Children’s Ballet
Theatre which became the precursor to the Makaroff
Youth Ballet. Many of their students and subsequent
company members continued to dance with
companies throughout the United States and the
world. Since 2003, the company is now in the capable
hands of their daughter Jeanette who had returned
after many years of dancing with the North Carolina
Dance Theater and the Milwaukee Ballet Company as
soloist, ballet mistress and teacher.
CREATIVE TEAM
JEANETTE MAKAROFF (Choreographer) is the
artistic director of the Makaroff Youth Ballet and the
director of the Makaroff School of Ballet. Since
returning to Appleton in 2000, she has enhanced
Makaroff Youth Ballet’s visibility by adding two
productions each year, the Holiday Concert and Spring
Concert. She has choreographed more than two dozen
new ballets into the repertoire, in addition to
continuing small company appearances through
lecture demonstrations, mini concerts, parades and
collaborations with other Fox Valley arts organizations.
Makaroff received her training at the North Carolina
School of the Arts and at the School of American Ballet
18h
in New York City. For four years she danced and toured
the United States extensively with the North Carolina
Dance Theatre performing works by such notable and
diverse choreographers as Petipa, Balanchine, Tudor,
Vesak, Aiello, Limon, Ailey, DeMille, to name only a
few. In 1979, she joined the Milwaukee Ballet where she
worked for over twenty years as soloist, ballet mistress
and teacher. Jeanette is also a guest teacher at the
Renaissance School for the Arts in Appleton.
BRIAN GRONER (Music Director) Brian Groner has
been the music director of the Fox Valley Symphony
since 1995. He also serves as music director for the
Harper Symphony, and since 1993, has been the
conductor of the Symphony Session at the Birch Creek
Music Center in Door County, Wisconsin. He holds an
advanced degree in conducting from Northern Illinois
University in collaboration with Northwestern
University. His concerts have been broadcast via
satellite, by National Public Radio, in over 50 major
radio markets across the nation. He has also conducted
the world premiers of over twenty substantial new
American compositions.
MAKAROFF YOUTH BALLET
Makaroff Youth Ballet (MYB) is a nonprofit youth
ballet company serving the people of the Fox Valley and
surrounding communities. Its mission is to make the
fine art of ballet performance accessible to the
community through its talented young dancers.
MYB is comprised of dedicated young dancers from
the Fox Valley and surrounding communities. Its
focus is to provide its dancers with superior ballet
training and pre-professional performance experience.
By doing so, they also provide the public with the
wonderful opportunity to see youth in high quality
and unique performances.
The young dancers in this performance appear
courtesy of Makaroff School of Ballet. They are
aspiring to become members of MYB. The adult
performers appear courtesy of the Makaroff School of
Ballet and TC Dance Studio.
FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization located in downtown Appleton,
provides a premier venue for live performing arts. Since
2002, the Center has proudly served as a gathering place
for the community to engage in educational
opportunities while enhancing a greater understanding
and appreciation of the live performing arts. The
2012/13 Season marks the Center’s 10th Anniversary.
For more information on upcoming performances,
programs and 10th Anniversary celebrations, visit
foxcitiespac.com. The Fox Cities Performing Arts
Center – Where the Arts Come Alive!
* Leta Biasucci and Kyle Davis appear courtesy of
Pacific Northwest Ballet.
Headshots courtesy of Angela Sterling and Bob Rueckl
Fox Cities Performing Arts Center stage personnel
provided by I.A.T.S.E. Local #470.
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