Cy Doherty is a ballet dancer who performs as the Mouse King in the American Ballet Theatre's "The Nutcracker ... This would be perfect in the rat costume.' I sent it over to my colleagues ...

You may think going to see The Nutcracker is a wholesome way ... videos of themselves decked out in Mouse King — affectionately dubbed “Rat King” — costumes while dancing to pop songs.

"Traditionally, in 'The Nutcracker' ballet ... While the bickering butler and maid are transformed into the Rat King and Queen, who invade the Stahlbaum home in a pirate ship made from a gravy ...

“In the Lair of the Rat Kings,” is likely to summon thoughts of two famous pieces of classic music — Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King” and Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker (in which the “Rat King ...

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a story written in 1816 by E T A Hoffmann in which young Marie Stahlbaums favorite Christmas toy the Nutcracker comes alive and after defeating the evil Mouse ...

The adaptation by producer Carlos Acosta, one of Cuba’s most famous ballet dancers-turned-directors, follows the traditional storyline of the nutcracker - rat king, sugar plum fairy and all.

Dream Clara is played by an adult dancer (Ivana Bueno), a projection of her girlboss future: she skewers the Rat King, shoves aside his henchmice and rescues her Nutcracker prince (Francesco ...