Kerry Sherck/For the Advocate
By Wynne Parry
Staff Writer
STAMFORD – Half a dozen soldiers with tall hats and mice in gray leotards crowded in front of a small television, watching a rehearsal of “The Nutcracker” ballet as it happened above them on stage at the Palace Theatre.
“Listen, you can hear them stomping their feet because they are right above us,” volunteer Johanna Steinberg told the costumed dancers as they waited in the basement for their chance to practice in the first full dress rehearsal Tuesday of the Stamford Center for the Arts’ annual performance of “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker.” (more…)
