The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker

Date: December 5-6, 2025

Time: 1:00pm Saturday matinee and 7:00pm evening performances

Tickets On Sale: October 24, 2025, at 9am

Location:         Page Family Center for Performing Arts at The King’s Academy

    8401 Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach, FL 

Ticket Price: $30

Run Time: 90 minutes, no intermission.

Guidelines:     Ages: 6 and up. No children under 3 permitted in the theatre.

                        No food or drink in the auditorium

                        No babes in arms/no lap babies

No strollers in the auditorium

No filming or photography of any kind

Synopsis: The Smith Family Conservatory Dance Department is please to open our Christmas season with 3 performances of The Nutcracker. This traditional Classical ballet will feature conservatory dancers from 4^th to 12^th grade.

The Nutcracker production to Tchaikovsky music is based on the story written by E.T.A Hoffman although what is seen on stage today is different in detail from the original story, the basic plot remains the same. When Marius Petipa had the idea to choreograph the story into a ballet, it was based on a revision by Alexander Dumas, a well-known French author.  His version reflects more of what we have come to love as the Nutcracker Ballet. 

This two Act ballet about a young girl named Clara who befriends a nutcracker toy that comes to life on Christmas Eve and wages a battle against the evil mouse king. After the battle, the nutcracker reveals himself as a young prince that takes Clara to the Land of sweets through a journey filled with adventure and fantasy.

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