{"id":61501,"date":"2020-12-07T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=61501"},"modified":"2020-12-07T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T17:16:00","slug":"2020-nutcracker-ballet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/2020-nutcracker-ballet\/","title":{"rendered":"Flagstaff holiday tradition \u2018The Nutcracker Ballet\u2019 dances virtually this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Arizona University School of Music is hosting \u201cThe Nutcracker Ballet: A Virtual Concert\u201d featuring the NAU Community Music and Dance Academy and the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra available for viewing from Dec. 18-31.<\/p>\n<p>The show is a longstanding Flagstaff holiday tradition that celebrates music by the famous Peter Tchaikovsky. Family and friends can follow the actors to a sparkling party, dramatic battle scene and journey to the Land of Sweets with choreography by <strong>Andrew Needhammer<\/strong> and music director and conductor Charles Latshaw.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets can be purchased on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flagstaffsymphony.org\/Nutcracker2020\/\">Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra webpage<\/a> for $25. One ticket provides 72-hour access to the video. Additional donations are welcome for multi-person viewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/2020-nutcracker-ballet\/\">The Northern Arizona University School of Music is hosting \u201cThe Nutcracker Ballet: A Virtual Concert\u201d featuring the NAU Community Music and Dance Academy and the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra available for viewing from Dec. 18-31. The show is a longstanding Flagstaff holiday tradition that celebrates music by the famous Peter Tchaikovsky. Family and friends can follow&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":61504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}