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November 30 -
December 26, 2023!
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Starring:
Dawn Lambert Hitt Christina Hollie
Glynda Welch Hayden Moore
Mark-Brian Sonna
and The Velvet Kittens:
Paula Raven Emmalyn Gladney Miron
Trey Smith Shahrzad Hamzeh
Abigail Jean
Directed by:
Mark-Brian Sonna
& Sarah Nichole Thompson
Choreography by:
Mark-Brian Sonna
Jana Edele
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WINNER OF THE 2014 NATIONAL GOLDSTAR
AKA "NUTTY" AWARD
FOR BEING THE MOST BELOVED NUTCRACKER
IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY!
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| The 2022 cast! |
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| The 2019 cast. |
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"a show that had me quite literally gasping with laughter."
Joy Tipping, TheatreJones.com
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"You've never seen The Nutcracker look this good, thanks to the Velvet Kittens."
-PegasusNews.com
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RECIPIENT OF 8 BROADWAYWORLD.COM NOMINATIONS, 2016:
Best Musical,
Best Director Charles Ballinger,
Best Actor Mark-Brian Sonna,
Best Ensemble
Best Choreography
Best Costumes/Wigs
Best Sound Design
Best Set Design
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| The 2016 cast. |
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"rollicking irreverent...
Once you've seen it, it will become a new (grown-up) tradition for your family every Christmas."
Carol Anne Gordon, Associate Theatre Critic for John Garcia's THE COLUMN
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| Cast of the 2015 show! |
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RECIPIENT OF 8 BROADWAYWORLD.COM NOMINATIONS, 2014:
Best Play,
Best Director Charles Ballinger,
Best Actor Mark-Brian Sonna,
Best Actress Laura Lutz Jones,
Best Ensemble,
Best Choreography Jana Edele,
Best Costumes/Wigs Larry E. Groseclose,
Best Supporting Actress Charli Armstrong.
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NOMINATED FOR THE 2013 NATIONAL GOLDSTAR NUTCRACKER AWARD
AKA "THE NUTTY"
FOR BEING ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED NUTCRACKERS IN THE COUNTRY!!!!
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"The show is filled with lots of energy and good hearted foolishness and the actors and the majority of the audience really seems to be enjoying themselves ... The show is a light-weight piece of want-to-be-filthy fluff that fortunately doesn’t take itself too seriously. It exists for fun and seasonal laughs and delivers what it sets out to."
-Chris Jackson, John Garcia's The Column
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NOMINATED FOR THE 2012 "NUTTY" AWARD!!!!!
FOR BEING ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED NUTCRACKERS IN THE COUNTRY.
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"The most hilarious production I have ever seen!
MBS Productions scores another
huge hit with this holiday show that is an over-the-top, must see, "nut cracking" romp!!"
Richard Blake - The Column
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NOMINATED FOR THE 2011 "NUTTY" AWARD!!!!!
"FOR BEING ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED NUTCRACKERS IN THE COUNTRY."
Broadwayworld.com
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"I had a good time and a good laugh. I recommend this play for those of you looking for something different."
John Strange, Selig Film News
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The Beulaville Baptist Book Club Presents: A Bur-Less-Q Nutcracker is laugh out loud funny. The playwright/actor Sonna is insane, funny and smart.
A Bur-Less-Q Nutcracker bumps and grinds its way to big laughs."
Marilee Vergati - Examiner.com
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"Whoo-hoo!"
Gini Moscorro - KERA FM
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"An unqualified hoot.
Highly recommended."
Mike Orren - PegasusNews.com
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"MBS Productions have shunned tradition and has delivered a new holiday favorite all wrapped up and tied up with a fishnet stocking."
Lyle Huchton, Associate Theater Critic for John Garcia's THE COLUMN
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"MBS Productions lovingly spoofs 'The Nutcracker,' and the result is plum funny, sugar."
-Mark Lowry, TheaterJones.com
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Recipient of the 2008 Column Award Nomination as
BEST NEW PLAY OF THE YEAR
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"..is as ridiculously fun as its title suggests....
This is a 'Nutcracker' for anyone who always wanted to chuckle during the ballet but didn’t feel they could. Here, it’s encouraged."
Arnold Wayne Jones - Dallas Voice
"MBS Productions’ A Bur-Less-Q Nutcracker transcends the conventional with gleeful delight and sends its audience out into the night with ho ho ho holiday hubba-hubba."
Alexandra Bonifield - PegasusNews.com
"The choreography by Mark-Brian Sonna and
Jana Edele, is ingenious, inspired and amusing. By turns graceful and bawdy, with just the right balance of edification and dance-hall shimmy."
Christopher Soden - Edge Dallas
" Nothing enlivens family holiday gatherings quite like a burlesque routine."
Jessey Hughey - Dallas Observer
"See a naughty Nutcracker...The fictional Beaulaville is possibly the only place on earth not familiar with burlesque, and high comedy ensues when the characters (and the audience) get exposed to it."
S. Anne Durham - Dallas Observer
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| The 2012 cast |
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| The cast of the 2011 show! Photo by Teatra Media Group. |
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