An entire Nutcracker gets stolen in Canada
balletBallet Jörgen, Canada’s leading choreographic dance company, has lost its re-envisaged touring production of Nutcracker.
The Toronto Star reports:
Ballet Jörgen, which had just started performances of its beloved holiday production, said a rental truck transporting the scenery was stolen from a lot in Etobicoke around 2:30 a.m.
“This is devastating for us because these sets are very specific and extremely hard to replace,” said Bengt Jörgen, the artistic director and CEO of Ballet Jörgen, in a phone interview with the Star. “Unless we can find the sets, it’s going to severely impact the quality of the production.”
The company said the stolen vehicle is a white, 26-foot Penske truck. When the theft occurred, it was parked at 77 N Queen St. in Etobicoke. According to the vehicle’s tracking device, its last known location was on McLaughlin Road in Mississauga.
Incredible story.
One is reminded of the unfortunate heist of a complete Tristan production, including all the singers and the poisoned drink, in 1889 in Frankfurt. Nothing and nobody was ever found again.
It’s been found: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/stolen-nutcracker-set-recovered-9.6991345
Happy ending. A Christmas Miracle saved the day. And “good job” to the Canadian police who found it.
Yeah — they’ll be very proud.
I once attended ballet in Toronto when Princess Anne was there. We journos usually congregated in a Press Lounge to enjoy the company’s hospitality, but as it was across from the Donors’ Lounge, where the Princess was being entertained in the interval, security corralled it and we were redirected to a roped-off section of the Mezzanine.
We got chatting with one of the RCMP officers on the detail — presumably her close protection, downstairs in the real lounges, were UK police protection travelling with her. He grumbled about how bored they all were on this low-profile do-nothing assignment. I asked him if surely at least some of them were not chuffed to get free tickets to the ballet – I forget now what it was.
He looked at me in horror. “O, no, Miss,” he said. “NOBODY in the RCMP would EVER enjoy the BALLET.
We stood properly rebuked!
Insufficiently macho, I guess.
Ball busters steal Nutcracker.
NEWS UPDATE. Local Chiropractor charged with Grand Theft Auto after openly admitting that:
“business has been down since that traveling “Neck-cracker” operation moved into town. Who in their right mind tries to relieve debilitating pain by watching dancers in tight fitting costumes? I have a family to feed.”