Long Beach Ballet's The Nutcracker

Long Beach Ballet's performance of 'The Nutcracker' is Southern California's most popular Nutcracker production for the last 26 years. The LBB's production includes a full symphony orchestra,its trademark flying sleigh, live horse, and exciting pyrotechnics, all set to Tchaikovsky’s traditional music score.

The only Nutcracker performance in Southern California with full symphony orchestra.

Melissa Sandvig (“So You Think You Can Dance” Finalist), a product of the Long Beach Ballet, will be featured as the Dewdrop Fairy in all performances.

*10% discount for Children, Seniors, and Groups of 15 or more
*VIP Package includes free parking, backstage pass, souvenir program, and choice orchestra seat.

Critical Acclaim for the Long Beach Ballet Nutcracker:

"Crammed with special effects, the familiar Long Beach Ballet version of The Nutcracker has nearly everything money can buy.  Opulent, family-oriented entertainment.  Seek no further."
--Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times

"Extravagant and full of technical gee-whizzery.  A holiday must!"
--Lynn Lasser, Press Telegram

"Festive, fantastic and fun, fun, fun!  What a high? 
An exhilarating incandescent experience that no one should miss!"
--Theater Critic John Carl Brodgon

Nutcrackers come and go, but only one is so spectacular, so charming, so heart-warming and memorable that it has become Southern California's favorite.  For 26 years David Wilcox's production of "The Nutcracker" has been seen by over a million people at the Long Beach Terrace Theater, the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, the Shrine Auditorium, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion,
 throughout the Asian continent, as well as on television.

*The Long Beach Ballet's production of The Nutcracker has made Long Beach
the Nutcracker Capitol of Southern California."