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Slide Show: Remembering Maurice Sendak

1Photo courtesy Angela Sterling. One of the highlights of the Stowell/Sendak Nutcracker comes when Clara’s Christmas tree doubles in size on stage.2Photo courtesy Angela Sterling. One of the highlights of the Stowell/Sendak Nutcracker comes when Clara’s Christmas tree doubles in size on stage.3Photo courtesy Angela Sterling. PNB’s Andrew Bartee dances the role of the Nutcracker.4Photo […]

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Photo courtesy Angela Sterling. One of the highlights of the Stowell/Sendak Nutcracker comes when Clara’s Christmas tree doubles in size on stage.

Photo courtesy Angela Sterling.

One of the highlights of the Stowell/Sendak Nutcracker comes when Clara’s Christmas tree doubles in size on stage.

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Photo courtesy Angela Sterling. One of the highlights of the Stowell/Sendak Nutcracker comes when Clara’s Christmas tree doubles in size on stage.

Photo courtesy Angela Sterling.

One of the highlights of the Stowell/Sendak Nutcracker comes when Clara’s Christmas tree doubles in size on stage.

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Photo courtesy Angela Sterling. PNB’s Andrew Bartee dances the role of the Nutcracker.

Photo courtesy Angela Sterling.

PNB’s Andrew Bartee dances the role of the Nutcracker.

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Photo courtesy Angela Sterling. PNB’s Andrew Bartee dances the role of the Nutcracker.

Photo courtesy Angela Sterling.

PNB’s Andrew Bartee dances the role of the Nutcracker.

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Photo courtesy Angela Sterling. The Chinese Tiger dance in PNB’s Nutcracker.

Photo courtesy Angela Sterling.

The Chinese Tiger dance in PNB’s Nutcracker.

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Photo courtesy Angela Sterling. The Chinese Tiger dance in PNB’s Nutcracker.

Photo courtesy Angela Sterling.

The Chinese Tiger dance in PNB’s Nutcracker.

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Photo courtesy Angela Sterling. Let it snow.

Photo courtesy Angela Sterling.

Let it snow.

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Photo courtesy Angela Sterling. Let it snow.

Photo courtesy Angela Sterling.

Let it snow.

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Photo courtesy David Cooper. Maurice Sendak (left) and Kent Stowell (right) take a bow at the opening of PNB’s Nutcracker in December 1983.

Photo courtesy David Cooper.

Maurice Sendak (left) and Kent Stowell (right) take a bow at the opening of PNB’s Nutcracker in December 1983.

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Photo courtesy David Cooper. Maurice Sendak (left) and Kent Stowell (right) take a bow at the opening of PNB’s Nutcracker in December 1983.

Photo courtesy David Cooper.

Maurice Sendak (left) and Kent Stowell (right) take a bow at the opening of PNB’s Nutcracker in December 1983.

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Photo courtesy David Cooper. Maurice Sendak (left) and Kent Stowell in a Nutcracker dress rehearsal, 1983.

Photo courtesy David Cooper.

Maurice Sendak (left) and Kent Stowell in a Nutcracker dress rehearsal, 1983.

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Photo courtesy David Cooper. Maurice Sendak (left) and Kent Stowell in a Nutcracker dress rehearsal, 1983.

Photo courtesy David Cooper.

Maurice Sendak (left) and Kent Stowell in a Nutcracker dress rehearsal, 1983.

Maurice Sendak, the inspired children’s book illustrator who showed us Where the Wild Things Are, died this morning in Danbury, Conn., from complications of a stroke. He was 83.
Seattle has enjoyed its own touch of Sendak for nearly 30 years, every time his Nutcracker takes the stage at McCaw Hall. In 1983, while collaborating with Pacific Northwest Ballet’s then-artistic director Kent Stowell, Sendak created a new kind of dreamworld…




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