Pro-Ford Thread: Rob Ford to Appear in Nutcracker Ballet

mentalfloss

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Rob Ford to Appear as Cannon Doll in the Nutcracker this Saturday

Mayor will play a cameo role during the opening performance of the season.



The National Ballet of Canada has just announced the date we have all been waiting to hear about: when our mayor will make his cameo appearance in the Nutcracker. Everyone run and book tickets for this Saturday, December 10, at 2 p.m., for that is when His Worship will join in a long Toronto tradition of local figures taking the stage in the annual bit of holiday fun. (For a visual aid, the role he plays can be seen starting at about the 35-second mark in the video above.) Among Ford’s predecessors: former mayors David Miller and Barbara Hall, MP Olivia Chow, city councillors Michael Thompson and Adam Vaughan, Mats Sundin, Margaret Atwood, and Rick Mercer.

In his role, Ford will be “colourfully costumed as Russian Petrouchka dolls,” and will “shoot a cannon into the audience to begin the battle scene.”

The jokes, they write themselves.


Rob Ford to Appear as Cannon Doll in the Nutcracker this Saturday | culture | Torontoist
 

Walter

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Many notables appear in the Nutcracker each year. Bing it if you need to.
 

DurkaDurka

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Many notables appear in the Nutcracker each year. Bing it if you need to.

Yes, but Rob Ford and culture don't exactly go hand in hand.

Never heard someone say "bing it" before. Doesn't have quite the ring of "google".
 

damngrumpy

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Lets see Rob Ford and culture don't go together and for sure he is without a
sense of humour either. It is appropriate that someone like Ford should be
featured in the nutcracker, sort of matches his mentality