Moscow Ballets Great Russian Nutcracker Tickets in Phoenix
The Moscow Ballet is coming to the Dodge Theater to preform the Nutcracker. Come to Phoenix for the event. Here is some info from wiki:
The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик) Op. 71, is a fairy tale-ballet in two acts, three tableaux, by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1891–92, and based on The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (German: Der Nussknacker und der Mäusekönig), a story by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1816). Alexandre Dumas père’s adaptation of the story was set to music by Tchaikovsky (after a libretto possibly written by Marius Petipa and commissioned by the administrator of the Imperial Theatres Ivan Vsevolozhsky in 1891).
In Western countries, this ballet has become among the most popular ballets performed, primarily around Christmas time.
A selection of eight of the more popular numbers from the ballet was made by the composer before the ballet’s December 1892 premiere, forming The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a, intended for concert performance. The suite was first performed, under the composer’s direction, on 19 March 1892 at an assembly of the St. Petersburg branch of the Musical Society. The suite became instantly popular; the complete ballet did not achieve its great popularity until around the mid-1960s. Some indication of how much The Nutcracker Suite once eclipsed the fame of the ballet may be found in Deems Taylor’s commentary in the roadshow version of Walt Disney’s 1940 animated film Fantasia, which features the suite as one of the animated segments. Taylor observes matter-of-factly, “[The ballet] isn’t performed anymore”, a statement which certainly does not hold true today, and, indeed, has not been true since the mid-1950s, when George Balanchine’s production achieved great popularity in New York.
If you are having trouble finding tickets to this show at the Dodge Theater box office here is where you should look for after market tickets:

