Photos and music samples for publicity

2009 features

• Cast of 85 from 7 Kansas communities
• Guest Artists from Iowa, Los Angeles, Nebraska, Seattle, Vermont
• Richard Isaac, professional danseur, Wichita, returns to Hutchinson for his Prairie Nutcracker debut.
• From Party Child to Snow Queen, Claire Gregory, Buhler, has grown up in the Prairie Nutcracker. She is featured this season as the Snow Queen and Waltz of the Prairie Flowers soloist (Daisy). Her entire family, sisters Leah and Lindsay, brother Andrew and parents, Mark and Valerie, were Prairie Nutcracker charter members.
• Twenty town dignitaries including City Manager John Deardoff and Hutchinson's Downtown Director Jim Seitnader (a Prairie Nutcracker charter member)
• A Very Prairie Christmas package for couples or families (4) includes overnight, gas card, mall card, Prairie Nutcracker reserved tickets, dinner and aftershow dessert

Publicity Photos:

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Poster image:
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Prairie Nutcracker Tumbleweed Tree:
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Listen to excerpts from Rick Kuethe's original Prairie Nutcracker music:

Prairie Nutcracker promotional video (QuickTime):

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