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Prescott Ruff
  • Durham, NC

Prescott Ruff Dances in Butler Nutcracker

2012 Nov 29

Prescott Ruff of Durham, NC, is one of the dancers in Butler Ballet's 30th annual performance of The Nutrcracker, Nov. 29-Dec. 2 at Clowes Memorial Hall of Butler University.

Show times are 7:30 p.m. Nov. 29; 8 p.m. Nov. 30; 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Dec. 1; and 2 p.m. Dec. 2. Tickets are $21.50-$28.50 for adults; $17-$23 for children, students and seniors; $14-$20 for groups of 15 or more. Tickets are available at the Clowes Hall box office or through Ticketmaster. For telephone orders, call (800) 982-2787.

Butler Ballet's 30th annual performance of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet will feature 124 dancers, including 34 young dancers from the Indianapolis community.

This year's Nutcracker will feature the Butler Symphony Orchestra performing the score. Morgan Sicklick, a senior from Woodcliff Lake, N.J., and Danielle Morano, a senior from St. James, N.Y., share the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Justin Metcalf-Burton (senior, Gaithersburg, Md.) and Matthew Doolin (senior, Jacksonville, Fla.) will dance as the Nutcracker.

Patrick Green (senior, Washington, D.C.) and George Vargas (junior, Grasonville, Md.) will play the Snow King. Katherine Currier (junior, Norwich, Vt.) and Coleen Rhea (Flemington, N.J.) will be the Snow Queen.

The Dew Drop Fairy will be danced by Shelby Shenkman (junior, Boca Raton, Fla.) and Mónica Muñoz (senior, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico), and Stuart Coleman (junior, Lynchburg, Va.) and Christian Griggs-Drane (junior, Richmond, Va.) will play the Cavalier.

Margaret Carey (junior, Dayton, Ohio) will dance the role of Clara, and Christiaan Ruff (sophomore, Durham, N.C.) will portray Fritz.

James Cramer '81, community relations manager at Clowes Hall, will dance the role of Drosselmeyer.

As always, all Butler Dance faculty have a hand in the choreography, including Cynthia Pratt, Marek Cholewa, Stephan Laurent, Susan McGuire, Derek Reid, Associate Dean of the Jordan College of the Arts Michelle Jarvis, and Visiting Professor Michael J. Johnson.