Milwaukee Ballet’s Newest ‘Nutcracker’

×Jacqueline Sugianto in Milwaukee Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ (2024)

The Nutcracker: Drosselmeyer’s Imaginarium , an extensive reimagining by artistic director Michael Pink of his 2003 production of The Nutcracker , will have its third run. Since the 1892 premiere in Russia, the global standard Nutcracker stages one girl’s travels through a magical dreamworld. In Pink’s adaptation, she shares the adventure with a younger brother and older sister. This year, three men take turns as her brother Fritz.

Flynn Stelfox was accepted to the Ballet’s second company in 2022. He played small roles in the final run of Pink’s earlier version and was elevated to the main company and the role of Fritz in 2023. Now he’ll play Fritz for the third time. Emery Meroni traveled that same path one year late