Featured Dancers

Mackenzie McCormick

Clara, Snow, Waltz

Mackenzie has been dancing for eleven years under the direction of her mother, Sharon McCormick. Over nine seasons of The Nutcracker, she has danced the parts of Gingerbread, Lilac, Young Guest, Candy Cane, Candy Cane Princess, Mouse, Baker, Butterfly, Snow, Waltz, and Harlequin Doll.

She has auditioned for, and been accepted to numerous ballet schools, including the Joffrey Ballet and Houston Ballet. This past summer she travelled to Philadelphia for six weeks of study at The Rock School, the Pennsylvania Ballet’s training program for up and coming dancers.

Mackenzie is 14 years old and is a freshman at Rim of the World High School.

Stephen Jacobsen

The Nutcracker (Battle Scene), Toy Soldier, Mirlitons, Waltz

Stephen has been dancing since he was 8 years old and has performed in seven seasons of The Nutcracker. His past roles have included Fritz’s Friend, Fritz, Soldier, Baker, Harlequin, Toy Soldier, Candy Cane Prince, and Trepak. Last year he added one new role, that of the Nutcracker himself, incognito beneath the mask in the battle scene. This year he adds two more, both newly choreographed — a pas de deux in Mirlitons and a new sequence in the Waltz of the Flowers.

Stephen spent the summer of 2004 at The Rock School and the summer of 2005 at the San Francisco Ballet.

Zachary Lynch

Fritz, Soldier

Zachary began dance lessons at the Lake Arrowhead School of Dance in 2000. He has been performing in The Nutcracker since 2001, playing the parts of Soldier and Fritz’s Friend. He is thrilled to be playing Fritz this year opposite Mackenzie McCormick as Clara.

Zachary also enjoys performing as a snare drummer in the Mountain Fifes & Drums Corp.

Marge Jewell

Frau Stahlbaum, Narrator, Rehearsal Director

Marge has performed in the LACBC Nutcracker every year since it began back in 1994. She received her dance training from Sharon McCormick, and has also danced in productions of Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, La Boutique Fantasque, and La Fille Mal Gardee. Her favorite role is that of Clara and Fritz’s mother in The Nutcracker.

Lots of work goes into preparing the dancers for each new season, and Marge is there through the entire process in her role as Rehearsal Director — coordinating, coaching, and encouraging the dancers.

When she is not dancing, she is “Doctor Marge” — greatly loved as a pediatrician.

Ron Wogen

Herr Stahlbaum

Ron began work with the Lake Arrowhead Ballet Company in its production of La Fille Mal Gardee. He later played the grandfather in Peter and the Wolf. Ron has played the role of Dr. Stahlbaum, Clara and Fritz’s father, in several of the past seasonal performances of The Nutcracker.

Ron is an educator at Lake Arrowhead Elementary and a member of the contemporary Christian band “Shine”.

James Ferranti

Herr Drosselmeyer

Jim is an educator and dances for enjoyment. He has appeared in the Lake Arrowhead Classical Ballet Company’s production of The Nutcracker since the very beginning. This is his tenth year as Drosselmeyer.