Before people learned to tiptoe around, everybody always knew exactly who was sneaking the pizza from the fridge at night. Appreciate even more skills of the pointed foot with today’s deal to see Nutcracker, performed by Ballet Memphis at The Orpheum. An additional processing fee of $5 is not included with this deal. Choose from the following options:

• For $21, you get one ticket for a section A seat (a $43 value). Choose from the following performances:
• Friday, December 2, at 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, December 3, at 2 p.m.

• Saturday, December 3, at 7:30 p.m.<p>

• For $36, you get one ticket for a premiere-section seat (a $72 value). Choose from the following performances:
  • Friday, December 2, at 7:30 p.m.
  • Saturday, December 3, at 2 p.m.
  • Saturday, December 3, at 7:30 p.m.<p>

After performing last year at the Kennedy Center Opera House in a production that captured the attention of the New York Times, Ballet Memphis returns home for its 25th anniversary presentation of Nutcracker. The troupe dazzles audiences as 100 pirouetting professional dancers, local children, and man-sized bobblehead dolls glide across the stage during a magical rendition of the classic holiday children’s fantasy. As the light dwindles down The Orpheum’s golden plaster and scarlet draping, audience members will slowly spiral into the story’s imaginative dreamscape.

Audience members can let their eyes walk with the story’s heroine, young Clara, as she shrinks beside her family’s Christmas tree. When her toy nutcracker animates into a swashbuckling savior, cheer along at the end of act one as the toy-soldier army battles the evil Mouse King and attempts to derail his plans to dip household valuables in fondue cheese. Act two introduces the Sugar Plum Fairy, whose famous dance through the Kingdom of Sweets springs off notes of its entrancing music, and the final pas de deux leaves spectators enraptured by the majesty, the grace, and the spandex of ballet.