Nutcracker Sweeties/The Judas Tree DVD

Nutcracker Sweeties is Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington's big band attack on Tchaikovsky. It portrays Broadway and America in the 1940s; full of humor, irony, commentary, swing and blues. The cast, dressed in an array of glamorous Jasper Conran costumes, includes pom-pom girls, drum majorettes, sailors, GIs and Candy Kane. David Bintley's choreography is a catwalk of jazz styles. With its glamour-puss clothes and flashing neon set, Nutcracker Sweeties is imaginative, funny and visually irresistible. Starring: Irek Mukhamedov, Conductor: Paul Murphy (Nutcracker), Barry Wordsworth (Judas).

DVD. 73 minutes. Color.