nutcracker sign
Here’s the text from the sign that was at the house:
In 1983 Pacific Northwest Ballet’s founding artistic directors Kent Stowell and Francia Russell collaborated with celebrated children’s author Maurice Sendak (best known for “Where the Wild Things Are”) on a new Seattle Nutcracker production. Sendak subsequently released an illustrated book of the original story using his drawings and designs for the ballet.
That same year Marshall Field’s department store in Chicago capitalized on the book release and commissioned Sendak to create figures for it’s[sic] famous holiday window displays from his designs. After the holiday season ended Sendak suggested the figures be given to PNB for their Nutcracker production and they were trucked across the country where they appeared for 30 years in the lobby of the Seattle Opera House each December. Countless photos were taken with them through the decades. After the Sendak/Stowell production was retired in 2014 the figures were acquired by John Carrington, long-term Principal harpist for the ballet, to be displayed at his storybook home in Ballard.
nutcracker sign
Here’s the text from the sign that was at the house:
In 1983 Pacific Northwest Ballet’s founding artistic directors Kent Stowell and Francia Russell collaborated with celebrated children’s author Maurice Sendak (best known for “Where the Wild Things Are”) on a new Seattle Nutcracker production. Sendak subsequently released an illustrated book of the original story using his drawings and designs for the ballet.
That same year Marshall Field’s department store in Chicago capitalized on the book release and commissioned Sendak to create figures for it’s[sic] famous holiday window displays from his designs. After the holiday season ended Sendak suggested the figures be given to PNB for their Nutcracker production and they were trucked across the country where they appeared for 30 years in the lobby of the Seattle Opera House each December. Countless photos were taken with them through the decades. After the Sendak/Stowell production was retired in 2014 the figures were acquired by John Carrington, long-term Principal harpist for the ballet, to be displayed at his storybook home in Ballard.