David Parker’s comic answer to The Nutcracker is back at 92NY for the holidays, with one in-person matinee on Saturday, December 12 and a streaming window that runs through Thursday, December 17.
The Bang Group returns to 92NY this December with Nut/Cracked, the family show it has been bringing back each holiday season for more than two decades. Choreographer David Parker builds it from every corner of the dance repertoire: tap sits next to en pointe ballet, and disco, bubble wrap and take-out noodles all find their way in.
The music is Tchaikovsky’s, heard several ways. Parker moves between the familiar orchestral suite and the versions made by Duke Ellington and Glenn Miller, so the waltzes keep changing shape under the dancers. The New York Times has called the piece “brilliant as well as side-splittingly funny.”
There is a single live performance, on Saturday, December 12 at 2 pm. For anyone who cannot make it in person, the show is available to stream from Sunday, December 13 at 12 pm until Thursday, December 17 at 12 pm.
The matinee audience stays on afterward for 92NY’s Winter Wonderland, a post-show party for all ages with craft tables, a photo booth, cornhole, dreidel games and a hot chocolate station. Props from the show are part of it too, from tap and pointe shoes to the bubble wrap. Everything is included in the price of a performance ticket.
Tickets start at $20 from 92NY.org or by phone at 212-415-5500. 92NY is at 1395 Lexington Avenue. For more seasonal shows around the city, see our guide to holiday shows in New York.
