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The Curse of Clara: A Holiday Tale

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'The Curse of Clara: A Holiday Tale' is a Canadian animated television film, which aired on CBC Television in 2015.[https://www.awn.com/news/curse-clara-holiday-tale-premieres-december-14 "The Curse of Clara: A Holiday Tale Premieres December 14"]. 'Animation World Network', December 2, 2015. Based on the autobiographical short story "The Curse of Clara, or My Big Fat Disappointment" by Vickie Fagan, the film centres on her experience as a young girl studying ballet at Canada's National Ballet School who is cast in the role of Clara in the school's annual production of 'The Nutcracker', only to learn of the longstanding legend that the role is cursed because nobody who played Clara as a student has ever gone on to play the starring role of the Sugar Plum Fairy as a professional adult dancer.[https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2015/12/23/the-curse-of-clara-and-her-sugar-plum-dreams-knelman.html "The Curse of Clara and her sugar-plum dreams: Knelman"]. 'Toronto Star', December 23, 2015. Her only guide through her fears and worries is her crush on hockey star Phil Esposito, whom she regularly imagines coaching and guiding her dancing.[http://www.cbc.ca/arts/is-the-role-in-the-nutcracker-every-girl-dreams-of-winning-really-a-curse-1.3355620 "Is the role in The Nutcracker every girl dreams of winning really a curse?"]. CBC Arts, December 9, 2015.

The film premiered on December 14, 2015 on CBC Television, before receiving a repeat airing on Christmas Day.

At the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016, the film won the award for Best Animated Program or Series.[http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canadian-screen-awards-creative-fiction-1.4016191 "Canadian Screen Awards 2017: Baroness von Sketch Show, Orphan Black big winners"]. CBC News, March 8, 2017.

Cast



*Saara Chaudry as Victoria "Vickie" Fagan of Niagara Falls

*Chloe Gillard as Peter

*Zoe Fraser as Bella

*Sara Botsford as the ballet mistress

*Sheila McCarthy as the narrator

*Phil Esposito as himself

*Karen Kain as herself

*Bob Cole as himself

References




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