The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

Owen/Cox Dance Group

with The People's Liberation Big Band of Greater Kansas City

December 10, 11 & 12 and 17, 18 & 19

Friday & Saturday performances 8:00 p.m., Sunday performances 2:00 p.m.

H&R Block City Stage Theater--Union Station

The Owen/Cox Dance Group brings together a "who's who" of Kansas City artists and musicians to breathe new life into an old classic.  Fifteen musicians of the People's Liberation Big Band, horn sculptor Mark Southerland, artist Peregrine Honig, and students from the Paseo Academy of the Performing Arts join in presenting a familiar story that turns out to be not so familiar after all.  Returning to the original and notably darker E.T.A Hoffman story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), this production will feature original music and radical rearrangements of Tchaikovsky melodies created by a host of innovative Kansas City jazz musicians, as well as the award-winning choreography of Jennifer Owen.

Tickets $20, $15 for students, seniors and groups, $10 children age 12 and under

Tickets available in November at www.unionstation.org