Nutcracker 2024 Sacramento Bee. Sacramento ballet’s 2022 hometown nutcracker features local choreography, international dancers, live orchestra plus hundreds of children cast as shooting stars, candy. People who think sacramento ballet is mainly a vehicle for armies of cute little kids to strut their stuff in “nutcracker” are about to have their preconceptions challenged in a big way.

This year’s productions is held at memorial auditorium while sacramento ballet’s normal theater is under renovation. The nutcracker is a ballet by pyotr tchaikovsky with a libretto by marius petipa, based on the story the nutcracker and the mouse king by e.