The Village of Rosemont will deck the halls this holiday season with the debut of its first ever Nutcracker Village. In partnership with NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet, scheduled to return to the Rosemont Theatre for two special performances December 3th, 20 six-foot-tall custom-painted Nutcrackers sponsored by Rosemont businesses and organizations will be on display from November 18th through December 31st at some of Rosemont’s most popular holiday destinations.
A portion of proceeds from the Nutcracker Village sponsorships will be donated to Advocate Children’s Hospital in Park Ridge. As one of the largest network providers of pediatric services in Illinois and among the top 10 in the country, Advocate Children’s Hospital is recognized for clinical excellence in cancer care, cardiology and cardiovascular surgery at the Advocate Children’s Heart Institute, maternal fetal medicine and more.
“We’re proud to partner with NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet to debut our first-ever Nutcracker Village this holiday season,” said Rosemont Mayor Brad Stephens. “These life-size nutcrackers representing some of our many businesses and organizations will spread holiday cheer amongst our visitors while also giving back to the community.”
“The Village of Rosemont is a fantastic partner for our inaugural Nutcracker Village,” says Dan Talmi, producer from Talmi Entertainment. “We are grateful for the wonderful sponsors that are helping bring this to life and help us support Advocate Children’s Hospital.”
2023 Nutcracker Village sponsors include:
- Allstate Arena
- Big Ten Conference
- The Chicago Dogs
- The Chicago Wolves
- Crust Brewing
- Dave & Buster’s
- Donahue & Rose Law
- Donald E. Stephens Convention Center
- Fashion Outlets of Chicago
- Feldco
- Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse
- Loews Chicago O’Hare Hotel
- Metro Paramedic Services/NORCOM Public Safety Communication
- OLC Education & Conference Center
- Rosemont Chamber of Commerce
- Rosemont Public Safety Charitable Foundation
- Rosemont Theatre
- State Representative Brad Stephens
- Truluck’s Oceans Finest Seafood
- Village of Rosemont
Rosemont’s 2023 Nutcracker Village will be on view at the following locations:
- Parkway Bank Park’s “Light Up The Park” tree lighting (5501 Park Place): Saturday, Nov. 18
- Crust Brewing (5500 Park Place): November 20-30
- Rosemont Theatre (5400 N. River Rd.): Sunday, Dec. 3
- Sparkle Light Festival (9850 Balmoral Ave.): December 7-31
For more information on Rosemont’s 2023 Nutcracker Village, visit www.rosemont.com/theatre/nutcracker-village.
For tickets to the December 3 NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet shows, visit www.nutcracker.com/buy-tickets/rosemont-il.
About The Village of Rosemont
Rosemont, Illinois, Chicagoland’s business and entertainment suburb, is conveniently located five minutes from O’Hare Airport and twenty minutes from Chicago’s downtown. Easily accessible via the area’s major highways, Rosemont is home to the Allstate Arena, Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, a wide variety of hotel and dining options, Rosemont Theatre, Fashion Outlets of Chicago, Parkway Bank Park entertainment district and Impact Field. Rosemont continues to grow and evolve based on the new vision of Mayor Bradley A. Stephens. For more information, visit www.Rosemont.com.
About NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet
Talmi Entertainment is the exclusive representation for NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet’s North American Tour, touring annually in over 86+ cities. Under Talmi Entertainment's management, NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet delivers unparalleled Vaganova artistry in the classic story ballets NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet, Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Swan Lake, and more. With a deep pioneering legacy of Julliard-trained award-winning founders, international world tours and a founding choreographer Mary Giannone recruited by Baryshnikov himself, the company celebrates 31 years of dance in 2023 and has graced stages in more than 100 major cities across North America. With a message of transcendent humanism and liberation from the Iron Curtain, the Glasnost and Leap to Freedom ballet tours of the late 80s launched newly freed former Soviet ballet artists onto the international stage. In 1993, “Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker” was born of the desire to share this world-class art form and message of freedom with a new and diverse audience. “2022 marked a new epoch in which artists and creators move into the future with NUTCRACKER! Magic of Christmas Ballet.” - Founder, Akiva Talmi (producer, composer, and recipient of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Richard Rodgers, and Leonard Bernstein Awards) www.talmientertainment.com.