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Among his screen credits are costume designs for the films Top Banana, Stiletto and Li'l Abner and for the TV productions of The Enchanted Nutcracker, Kiss Me Kate, The Adams Chronicles, CBS: On the Air, Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood and many years of the Tony Awards.
Van Zandt is the co-author and star of the Off-Broadway plays You've Got Hate Mail, Silent Laughter, Drop Dead!, and 20 other theatrical plays written with Jane Milmore, including A Night at the Nutcracker, Wrong Window, and summer stock perennial Love, Sex, and the I.R.S. He also wrote The Property Known as Garland for wife Adrienne Barbeau, which ran Off-Broadway at the Actor's Playhouse in 2006.
Additionally, he has also performed voiceover roles for animation, such as Turaga Vakama in the first three Bionicle movies, Diagnostic Drone in Beast Machines and Major Mint in Barbie in the Nutcracker.
The case has inspired at least two nonfiction books, At Mother's Request: A True Story of Money, Murder and Betrayal by Jonathan Coleman and Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album by Shana Alexander.
Indian Nutcracker is an adaptation of the famous story of Nutcracker into South Indian Classical Dance Form called Kuchipudi.
She appeared in numerous ballet performances including Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker, Don Quixote and Swan Lake.
Kochetkova performed the Grand Pas de Deux in San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker which was broadcast by PBS in 2008 and won the solo gold medal in the NBC series Superstars of Dance which was watched by over 10 million viewers.
The Nutcracker, which had not yet been performed complete in the United States in 1939, was barely mentioned in the original edition; only the twenty-minute Nutcracker Suite extracted from it was given anything resembling a detailed discussion, and Brockway and Weinstock did not change this in later revisions of the book.
John Fuller's 1980 "The Illusionists" and Jon Stallworthy's 1987 "The Nutcracker" used this stanza form, and Vikram Seth's 1986 novel The Golden Gate is written wholly in Onegin stanzas.
In 2011, he co-created the musical comedy, "The Nutcracker and I", with music by Tchaikovsky, lyrics by Gerard Alessandrini, and book by Brash.
In 1988, after the demise of Dallas Ballet, the company began adding performances of The Nutcracker in Dallas in a business partnership with The Dallas Opera, producing Nutcracker performances in The Music Hall and using The Dallas Opera Orchestra.
They include many typical wooden Ore Mountain products such as Christmas pyramids, wooden Räuchermann incense smokers, nutcrackers, wooden figures (Christmas Angels, miners, turned animals, etc.), Christmas mountain scenes (Weihnachtsberge) and Ore Mountain candle arches.