Suki Schorer remembers her experience with the should-sits in the Grand Pas de Deux: With Sugar Plum, Mr. B said, “Don’t get sweet.” I...

[2/50] In 1964, NYCB scaled up the production to fit the New York State Theater. “When we first lit it at the State Theater we had a call...

[1/50] Here we go! It's officially Nutcracker season! Tune in every day (sometimes twice a day) to see the photos I have unearthed over...

Today marks the original closing date for NYCB’s Nutcracker season this year. It was too depressing to keep up my posts during all the...

Today’s Christmas Eve performance would have been show 35. Here are some pictures of the gorgeous Diana Adams (left & Right) Frederick...

Yesterday’s cancelled Nutcracker (due to Covid-19) would have been number 31. Allegra joined NYCB at 15, became a principal at 19...

Okay how cute is this: this is a dual post covering Nutcrackers 32 and 33. This post highlights brothers Joseph and Daniel Duell. (Duell...

Show number 28. Photos of Sugar Plum Darci Kistler and Cavalier Damian Woetzel in 1992. Photos by Martha Swope

Nutcracker number 20 of the season, featuring Heather Watts as Dewdrop and the Sugar Plum Fairy. (left) Martha Swope, 1983. Dewdrop....

Nutcracker 18 for today’s matinee and we have some shots of Suki Schorer as Sugar Plum Fairy. (left) Photo by Martha Swope, 1969. (right)...

Tonight’s show was number 19. Mikhail Baryshnikov spent just 15 months as a principal with NYCB and participated in the 1978 Nutcracker....

Show number 16. Photos of Melissa Hayden as the Sugar Plum Fairy. (top left) Photo by Frederick Melton, 1954. (top right) Photo by...

For show number 14, let’s look at some gorgeous shots of Gelsey Kirkland and Helgi Tomasson in 1974. All photos by Martha Swope.

It’s the first 9-show week of this Nutcracker season and we are on show number 13. This one gets me every time: I love a full-circle...

For Nutcracker No. 12, let’s see some Jacques d’Amboise. (left) Photo by Martha Swope, 1973. Jacques and Patricia McBride. (center) Photo...

(8/50) Maria Calegari in The Nutcracker Photos by Martha Swope, 1985, 1985, 1982. NYPL

(6/50) Wow wow wow it was so hard to choose just a couple photos to share of Kay Mazzo in Balanchine's Nutcracker over the years. 😍

(4/50) Maria Tallchief, Balanchine’s original Sugar Plum Fairy and “America’s First Prima Ballerina.”