Springfield Ballet celebrates its 40 th anniversary season this year, and the company has presented an annual holiday production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker for 31 of those years. This year’s performances are December 16-19 at the Landers Theatre, but prior to that the company will offer “A Night for the Nutcracker,” a fundraising evening during which the new set will be revealed to the public. According to Evan Bennett, Springfield Ballet Executive Director, “for the last two years we’ve been doing a capital campaign to create a new ( Nutcracker ) set.” The previous production dates from 2000, and adds Evan Bennett, while “the previous set was NOT in disrepair at all, we felt like the best thing to do was get ahead of it, get the new set made. The worst thing is if you get to a place where it’s in disrepair, so we felt like it was more responsible to go ahead and create the new set. We had the time to plan, and it wasn’t in any way an emergency situation.” The new set was created
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