Performer: Gavin Abercrombie

Kansas City Ballet's The Nutcracker charms young and young at heart. 

Enthralling, intense and terrifying, yet compellingly watchable. It may send chills down the spine but it is quite brilliantly portrayed. 

Devon Carney's Cinderella is fast-moving and busy, with the stepsisters cavorting across the stage as the epitome of pantomime dames