More Nutcracker/Slutcracker

I'm not sure if this is a joke, but it was on the comments to the post about the Slutcracker that turned me on to the production.

One cannot desecrate what is already filthy. The Nutcracker story has nothing to do with Our Lord Christ’s birthday at all—it’s filled with unnatural pairings of humans and dolls, as well as gratuitous violence. The original author of The Nutcracker, E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a Prussian who wrote novels with pagan, perverted, and non-Christian themes, and was influential to generations of decadent writers. Tchaikovsky, composer of the ballet version of The Nutcracker, was a Russian incestuous pedophile who lusted after his own 13-year-old nephew. Tchaikovsky eventually committed suicide to avoid having his sins publicly revealed, and is now burning in hell. Ballet itself has always been a cesspool of whores (only a loose woman would ever show her legs in public) and faggots (no real man would be caught dead dancing onstage in tights). I hope none of the readers here have their daughter in ballet classes, otherwise they may as well hand them a stripper pole and a whip. Say what you will about Islamic dictatorships, at least they don’t allow their women and homosexuals to flaunt themselves like this in public—they stone them to death.

Perhaps we should be grateful to the maggots of Slutcracker for reminding us how rotten the meat of the Nutcracker truly is.

Somehow, this sounds like a joke, but a pretty good one. The blog's author is too ignorant to realise she's being HAD (in more than one way as well). The Comment is not too far off as well about the Nutcracker and Tchaikovsky for that matter. Although, the commentor has overdone it A LOT!

IMHO The blog's author looks like she's Hanoi Jane in black and carrying an AK-47. Her name even sounds a bit like she's a gook as well. Someone should photoshop her pic to add a Vietnamese army pith helmet and a viet cong flag backdrop! Whatever is her story, she looks more terrorist than patriot in her pic. I'd love to have her in the sights of my L115A3.

Too bad her skull would implode like a light bulb given it is a vacuum (or don't those exist in nature?).

Patriotism isn't the last refuge of a scoundrel, it's the first.

This schmendricke klafte needs to bone up on the Constitution before she starts trying to defend it. I suggest Articles 1(8),III, VI, and The First Amendment as a beginning.

Christmas traditions

It seems that Boston's the Slutcracker is being called the "Latest Assault on Christmas: Sexualized Version of “Nutcracker”, including transsexuality and sado-masochism". Nevermind E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Nutcracker and Mouseking" (the Source of the Nutcracker's story) addresses Clara's sexual awakening. US performances shy away from this since they usually have real children and try to make the performance cute, which is why I hate seeing US performances of the Ballet (Well, except The Mark Morris Dance Group's Hard Nut, but I saw that a the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels: does that count???). The actual story is fairly scary since Drosselmeyer is portrayed as a sinister figure which is something that European versions of the ballet tend to show.

For those who don't know the Story, Princess Perlipat is a beautiful little girl. Unfortunately, the family runs afoul of the mouse queen who turns Pirlipat into an ugly creature. The only way to cure Pirlipat was to feed her the nut Crackatook. Drosselmeyer is sent to find a person who can perform the task and travels the world, only to find that the person in question is Drosselmeyer's nephew. Unfortunately, no sooner is Pirlipat cured than the Nephew is cursed by the mousequeen and becomes the nutcracker and the ungrateful princess refuses to marry him. Marie/Clara then swears that she would love the nephew no matter how he looks and breaks the curse.

Of course, that condensation doesn't get deeply into Marie/Clara's sexual awakening, but I don't feel like rewriting the story: especially since you can read it here.

It seems that the Slutcracker is a X rated version of the Nutcracker with burlesque and can-can dancers, drag kings, hoopers, ballerinas, acrobats, bellydancers, actors and actresses and where our young dreamer Clara finds a sex toy waiting for her under the Christmas tree. It leads her to a kinky-freaky-sexy land where she discovers…. Needless to say, this has the keep Christ in Christmas crowd freaking out. Although, it is amusing that this production is happening in Boston, where Christmas was banned for being a holiday that featured the lord of misrule and men dressing as women (and vice versa). Maybe they have finally discovered the true meaning of Christmas in Boston after shaking off the Puritan bullshit.

What would these people say about Philadelphia's Mummers?

Better yet, what would these people think about Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker?

Bourne's version takes place in a workhouse:

Bourne does away with the sanitized Victorian scenario of Christmas. Bourne, often at his most brilliant at re-working traditional ballet librettos (e.g. “Swan Lake,” “Cinderella,” and “The Car Man” -- all seen in Los Angeles within recent years), delivers no less with “Nutcracker!” Instead of the cozy Victorian home, Bourne gives us a veritable Dickensian Third Reich where the ballet’s only family embodies not holiday charity but avarice and exploitation. Instead of the bourgeois domesticity of the Stahlbaums, Clara is an inmate of Dr. Dross’ Orphanage for Waifs and Strays, a kind of Dotheboys Hall run by Dr. Dross (Scott Ambler as an SS commandant Wackford Squeers) and the Matron, His Wife, (Annabelle Dalling as a nightmarish combination of Mommie Dearest Joan Crawford and Bette Davis’ Baby Jane). These symbolic inversions are only a starting point for Bourne.

The Matthew Bourne Nutcracker is super! I am not sure what I think about the Slutcracker. From the little teaser clip, it looks amusing, but I wouldn't go out of my way to see it. I Also have to admit that most US Nutcrackers usually are pretty boring community productions. The ballet is super when performed by talented dancers as opposed to the patrons' Children.

The video below also has the Christ in Christmas crowd upset that the "family" holiday is being desecrated. I suggest that these people look into the pagan rituals that have been around longer than Christianity.



Maybe they will rethink their position and just ban Christmas again since things like the Slutcracker are far more traditional Christmas/Solstice traditions. Banning Christmas is the only way to end that sort of thing, but it has never worked in the past.

So, why would they think they can change a holiday that is more pagan than Christian.