12/3/17: The 11th Annual Green Mountain Nutcracker will be held at the Barre Opera House the weekend of December 16-17. It’s the Nutcracker with a Vermont twist: the Sugar Plum Fairy becomes the Maple Sugar Fairy, loggers and moose get starring roles, and local musician Colin McCaffrey has adapted part of the beloved Tchaikovsky score.

Eva caught a rehearsal at the Moving Light Dance Company in Montpelier and met some of the 60-plus, multi-aged cast, many of whom have been performing in this holiday favorite for years.

Music:
Adaptations of Tchaikovsky’s score performed by Colin McCaffrey “Contra Dance, Clogging Solo & Drosselmeier’s Magic”

“Sugar Plum Fairies” composed by Tchaikovsky & performed by Kevin MacLeod

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This article appears in December 13 • 2017.

Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger has been making her award-winning video series "Stuck in Vermont" since 2007. In 2024, she won first place from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for her video, “Barbie Collector.” She received...