{"id":6351,"date":"2010-12-02T13:21:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T19:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=6351"},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:14:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T22:14:39","slug":"nutcracker-opening-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=6351","title":{"rendered":"Nutcracker opening night!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/hsg\/blogart\/dance\/nut-makeup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s opening night for the Joffrey&#8217;s Nutcracker at the Fox! Here is our party boy just before leaving for the theatre. If you are attending tonight, Saturday night, or the Sunday matinee, Audrey is the party boy in the blue sailor suit.<\/p>\n<p>These fun Nutcracker facts came in an email from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancestlouis.org\/main.htm\">Dance St. Louis<\/a> today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Robert Joffrey\u2019s nostalgic Victorian version of The Nutcracker is one of the Joffrey Ballet\u2019s largest and most richly detailed productions.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The teapot that is on stage for \u201cTea from China,\u201d one of the entertainments in the Kingdom of Sweets, is 5 feet tall by 7 feet long. Watch for the \u201csteam\u201d!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The dress for Mother Ginger, the 14-foot-tall puppet designed by Kermit Love of Sesame Street fame, contains more than 100 yards of fabric. When Mother Ginger travels, she needs five separate crates.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Christmas tree in Clara\u2019s family parlor grows to become 23 feet 3 inches tall and 16 feet wide at the base, and has 46 individually wrapped gifts beneath it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">During the shows at the Fox this weekend, the Snow Forest scene will require more than 50 pounds of flame-proof paper-punch snow mixed with hand-cut silver paper to make the snow sparkle.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The production uses 200 costumes and 172 pairs of boots and shoes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s true what they say: There&#8217;s no business like show business!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s opening night for the Joffrey&#8217;s Nutcracker at the Fox! Here is our party boy just before leaving for the theatre. If you are attending tonight, Saturday night,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,96,311],"class_list":["post-6351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dance","tag-family","tag-nutcracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}