Runners up:
2. Nightlight, FUNHOUSE Movement Theater
3. ZUZI! Dance Company (no specific performance)
Best Dance Production
Nutcracker, Ballet Tucson
Readers Pick
Nutcracker, Ballet Tucson
Nutcracker, Ballet Tucson
The city's professional ballet company pushed its beloved Nutcracker up more than a couple notches this year. Live musicians played the lovely Tchaikovsky score, and flesh-and-blood singers from the Tucson Boys Chorus warbled the AH-ah-AH-ah-ahs in the Snow Scene. Even better, the troupe deployed its fine new professional dancers, along with scores of well-trained kids. The local pros were to be complemented in a couple of performances by guest stars from American Ballet Theater, but a family emergency kept the ABTers in New York. So in the best showbiz tradition, locals Jenna Johnson and Daniel Precup stepped into their sugar-plum shoes, and danced dazzlingly.
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