3. In person, in advance. Visit the Box Office, near the orange sculpture on campus, in room P-100. Open Monday to Friday, 1 – 5 pm. Cash, Visa or MasterCard, checks and money orders (made payable to KCC Auxiliary Enterprises) accepted. Closed major holidays.

4. In person, on show days. Available tickets on sale at the venue one hour before show time, cash only.

6. By fax. Complete the order form and fax credit card orders to 718.368.5804.

The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик, Shchelkunchik) Op. 71, is a fairy tale-ballet in two acts, three scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1891–92. Alexandre Dumas père's adaptation of the story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E. T. A. Hoffmann was set to music by Tchaikovsky (staged by Marius Petipa and commissioned by the director of the Imperial Theatres Ivan Vsevolozhsky in 1891). In Western countries, The Nutcracker has become perhaps the most popular of all ballets, performed primarily around Christmas time. The composer made a selection of eight of the numbers from the ballet before the ballet's December 1892 premiere, forming The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a, intended for concert performance. The suite was first performed, under the composer's direction, on 19 March 1892 at an assembly of the St. Petersburg branch of the Musical Society. The Nutcracker was first performed in Saint Petersburg, Russia on December 19, 1892.