The Nutcracker

The holiday season brings to mind family, friends and… The Nutcracker!

Experience the same magic and grandeur that Ron Colton brought to Augusta in 1971. Your entire family will enjoy this classic Holiday tale that has become a tradition in the CSRA. Join us as Colton Ballet Company brings this holiday favorite to life for the 51st year during the 2022 thanksgiving weekend!

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Friday November 25	Saturday November 26	Sunday November 27
November 25th at 7pm	November 26th at 1pm November 26th at 5pm	November 27th at 1pm November 27th at 5pm

Supported by the Greater Augusta Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Sponsored by: Azalea, Knox Foundation, Cleon-Mauldin Foundation, Laurelwood Equipment Co, Beasley Media Group, and Mr. & Mrs. George E. Morgan

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Colton Ballet Company will be sporting a brand new Act 1 set for our 50th anniversary production of the Nutcracker from the festive Party Scene all the way to our exquisite Snow Scene, made complete with new Snow costumes.

Act 1 Set designed by Curtis Trout, professor of Theatre Design at Illinois Wesleyan University.

Snow Costumes designed by Ken Busbin, resident Costume Designer/Head Draper etc. for Boston Ballet Wardrobe.

Our beloved Drosselmeyer, Richard Justice, succumbed to Covid-19 on August 27. He was a most valued and important part of our ballet family. Our relationship spanned more than 30 fruitful years. He has performed on our stage as Drosselmeyer for the past five years. He portrayed a befuddled Van Helsing pursuing Count Dracula in the Company’s six productions of Dracula. He was most poignant in the speaking role of Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet. He was a proud papa McCoy in Peter Powlus’ The Legend of the Hatfields and McCoys. In our Three Musketeers he created a very foppish King Louis XIII, deftly handling the theatrical sword play. Richard produced characters that were vivid and memorable. His knowledge of the theatre was extensive and his taste impeccable.

He and Debi Ballas pulled the Augusta Players from the ashes in the 1990’s. The organization’s rebuild was stunning. Richard worked tirelessly by Debi’s side to make the Players the success it is today. Richard was most certainly a renaissance man – actor, singer, director, designer. He was multifaceted and generously lent his talents to organizations like our company and the Fort Gordon Dinner Theatre.

He was one of the founders of Le Chat Noir.

With all his creativity and talent, he excelled especially at being a remarkable human being with all the best of human attributes – kindness, empathy, integrity, and humor. He will be truly missed by the entire Augusta community.

Richard was a shining star yet he walked with such grace upon this earth.

Zanne Colton – CBC Founding Artistic Director
Director, Colton Ballet School
Bon Ellis – CBC Founding Member
Ballet Mistress & Business Administrator
Rosalind Avrett Jones
Ballet Instructor, Development Assistant/Wardrobe Mistress
Katherine DeLoach, President
Morris Museum of Art
Patricia Sheehan Beck, CBC Vice President
Owner, Sheehan’s Irish Pub and Becks
Robert J. Lowe, Jr. Esq., CBC Treasurer
COO/Chief Legal Counsel, Snelling Properties,LLP
Elizabeth Sitton Morgan, Secretary
Hematology Sales Specialist, Novartis Oncology
Julie Hayes Avrett, CBC Graphic Designer
Erin Frost, League President
Leigh DeLoach
Nicci Bush
Former Educator
Carolyn Higgins Chester, RT (R) ARRT
Radiologic Technologist, Aiken Regional Medical Center
Claudia Ballas Latch
Physician Assistant, UrgentMD/MedNow
Dave Bellmer
Lauren Hardy Hargrove
Eva Watts

Russell Joel Brown
Director & Educator, Russell Joel Brown Foundation
Kathryn Bush
Office Manager, Colton Ballet School
Jackie Crute, CBC Founding Member
Accountant
Dr. Denise Evans
Psychiatrist
Gregory Negas Pierce, CBC Founding Member
Atlanta Visitors Bureau
Tammy Adams Westafer, M.Ed., M.N.M.
School Counselor, Jefferson Elementary
Maryanne Mitchell