Summary:
A girl named Clara got a nutcracker as a Christmas present. Clara’s brother Fritz plays with several big walnuts as a joke. And then the nutcracker’s tooth breaks. Then, the godfather who gave me this gift put in a bird and bandaged it, and Clara was happy to take out the dolls and nutcrackers that she had until late at night and play happily. And I went back to bed. At this point, the Nutcracker leads Fritz’s toy soldiers to defeat the seven-headed mouse king and his subordinate, the shrimp rats. But the Nutcracker jumps out of the cabinet to defeat the enemy in the cabinet, where it gets hurt and retreats. The Rat King bullies Clara by giving her snacks, sugar dolls, etc., and the Nutcracker asks Clara to get a toy sword that can defeat the Rat King. Clara gets a small toy sword from Fritz, who has a lot of toy soldiers and gives it to the Nutcracker. With the sword, the Nutcracker defeats the mouse king and the shrimp mice and dedicates the seven crowns that the mouse king was wearing to Clara. Clara shows this crown to her family and the godfather and brings it up, but everyone doesn’t believe it.
At night, Clara follows the Nutcracker to the country of snacks. The Nutcracker is the prince of this country of sweets. Clara is invited to a party and has fun, and as the morning approaches, the Nutcracker makes it a dream and sends Clara back to bed.
One day, a relative of the godfather came to Clara’s house. So we had a meal together, a relative and Clara were playing together, and at this time, a relative proposed to Clara that she was a nutcracker and that she wanted to have a kind-hearted Clara, who loved her ugly face, as a bride. In other words, the Nutcracker was born as a handsome young man without an ugly doll. So Clara becomes a young nutcracker bride and goes to the country of snacks.
About the show:
Our team chose to play the “Nutcracker” because the topic is interesting and the lesson inside this play brings an important message to people nowadays. Covid-19 changed our daily life and people started to restrict their outside activities and wear masks anywhere. The school has been suspended for safety protocol issues for students and many people already infected with the Covid virus. Inside the play, it generates a message that we should share and respect others. People usually forget what they receive from others, instead, they are just remembering the negative issues from others. However, this play helps people to remind themselves that people should be thankful for whatever they receive from others, whether or not it is minor or major help. Nowadays, many people are sacrificing themselves to fight the Covid pandemic. For example, doctors and nurses are curing and working all day in hospitals for covid patients and many scientists are trying to invest in the covid vaccine. Thus, our team believes that we could generate a positive message that those workers and people are taking care of us from the Covid virus, so we should respect their effort and should take responsibility to follow the policy or protocols, such as wearing masks outside. Also, we trust that our audience could get positive influences from the covid-pandemic by watching the show.
Show Information:
This play is a live theater show in the United States. Our team chose to perform in the theater because people are quarantined themselves for a long time, so we would like to invite the people to enjoy their spare time in the theater. This play is performing at 6 pm, December 20-25, 2022 at Broadway in Newyork. This play is shown as a Christmas event show and we set a place in Newyork because New York has the most visitors during the Christmas season. This play is a 5 days show because we hope many people will watch the play and receive positive implications from this pandemic. Furthermore, we set the audience for all ages, but we specifically aim for 10-30 years olds. This is because we believe that young generations would have difficulties nowadays because of Covid-19. Most young people likely enjoy being outside and meeting people, but they are restricted nowadays.
About Director and Company:
The director of this show is quite different from usual. The director is Lee Jeong Jae, who is one of the most famous actors in Korea, and will be performing as actor and director in this play. He would perform as Clara’s brother. This is the first time that he would both perform as an actor and director. His acting skill has been acknowledged by the public, but his directing has never been shown to people. This would be a positive implication to bringing our audience’s interest. Furthermore, his company, BH entertainment, would support our entire show. They would generate the rental fee for the theater, payment, and all stage management fees. The main purpose of the company is to promote a successful play in the United States. This is their first time managing their play outside of Korea. They are highly looking forward to having a successful result in the end.
Production Work:
Based on the support from BH entertainment, our team would utilize numerous theater technologies and goods for play. We firstly order the huge Nutcrackers to make sure our audience can detect them during the show. We would like to have 10 different backgrounds so that we could make different scenes during the play. We do have a light, sound, and video professional manager to control our play. In addition, the team from Broadway would also help our team to support the play.
Marketing Business:
The price for this play is 150 dollars for regular seats and 240 dollars for VIP seats. We make a difference between prices because VIP seats are closer to the stage and our stage technologies are set up in VIP seats. Thus, whoever wants to enjoy the show, we would prefer them to take a seat as a VIP. In addition, we also make the Nutcracker play hoodie and T-shirt to sell in front of the ticket office. These selling items are additional money that we are trying to make. Furthermore, at the end of the show, we leave the link about the survey. This survey could also leave the tips if they want to give specific actors or staff members.
Last message:
Even though people nowadays live in difficult situations of Covid-19, we would like to generate a positive message toward the people that we could overcome these situations. We would like our audiences to enjoy the show and get positive influences. We are all welcome to greet each of the audience and look forward to a successful play. We hope to see you all on December 20-25 at 6 pm in Broadway New York.