sugarplum
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Even those with scant interest in classical music or dance will be osmotically familiar with Tchaikovsky’s 1892 Christmas ballet, with its hit-filled score and Sugarplum Fairy.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025
Sugarplum even tries to have the rules from her town of Perfection apply to the real world.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024
The Sugarplum Fairy, after an unsought interregnum, is presiding over the Land of Sweets at the New York City Ballet.
From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2022
“He seemed like a child himself when he was choreographing,” wrote Maria Tallchief, the original Sugarplum in City Ballet’s production, in 1954, in her autobiography.
From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2022
Few of the boatmen of Deal went by their right names; but such soubriquets as Doey, Jack Onion, Skys’lyard Dick, Mackerel, Trappy, Rodney Nick, Sugarplum, etcetera, were common enough.
From The Lifeboat by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
