04x02 - Angelina's Holiday Treats / Angelina and the Front Row Ticket

[bunniefuu]

- ♪ She's a dancing star

♪ She loves to twirl all day

♪ She's gonna go far

♪ That's the angelina way

♪ Follow your dreams

Wherever they take you ♪

♪ You can succeed

♪ Don't let anything

Shake you ♪

♪ Angelina

♪ Ballerina

♪ The little star

With big dreams ♪

♪ Angelina

♪ Ballerina

♪ La, la, la-la

♪ La, la, la-la

♪ La, la, la-la

[School bell rings]

- I'm angelina,

And I am really, truly happy,

Because tonight is our school's

Holiday dance showcase.

- You're up next, angelina.

This is our last rehearsal

For the dance

Of the sugarplum fairy,

So give it your all.

- Of course I will, ms. Mimi.

[Playing tchaikovsky's

Dance of the sugarplum fairy]

♪

- [Gasps]

Ah.

♪

Nice, angelina.

Your dancing

Is very light and airy.

- Thanks.

That's because the music

Is light and airy,

Just like the sugarplum fairy.

♪

- Marco, you're doing

A great job playing the celeste.

- It's almost like playing

The piano.

It looks like a piano,

But it sounds like bells.

- I love that bell sound.

- The dance

Of the sugarplum fairy music

Comes from my absolute

Favorite holiday ballet,

The nutcracker.

♪

[Applause]

- Great rehearsal, everyone.

Now, don't forget

To bring a holiday treat

For the party after the show.

I'll be bringing

My homemade sugarplums,

Of course.

- Oh, boy.

- Cool.

- I'll bring cookies.

- Oh, and I can bring

Some cheese.

- My mum and I are going to make

A gingerbread house.

- Mmm.

Sounds good.

- Marco, a.z.,

Do you want to help us bake?

- Yeah.

- That'd be cool.

- Great.

We just need to pick up

A few groceries first.

Come on.

- And a bag of raisins...

Um, and a gallon of milk.

There.

That's everything

Your mother said she needs.

- Thank you, mrs. Thimble.

- You're very welcome.

Now, don't spill the milk.

Here.

Help yourself

To some candy canes

To celebrate the holidays.

- Wow.

Thanks.

Candy canes are my favorite.

- Mine too.

Mmm, mmm.

Both: mmm.

- Did you know

The biggest candy cane ever made

Was over feet tall?

- Very cool.

- I wish this

Were feet tall.

[Both giggling]

- [Gasps]

- I am so lucky to have

Three excellent helpers today.

- The gingerbread

Smells awesome.

- Well,

Thanks to your hard work,

We have a gingerbread house

For the party...

And a batch

Of gingerbread mouselings

To enjoy later.

- [Gasps]

Wait.

Can we have a cookie

Right now, please?

- Pretty please?

- Super-duper

Extra pretty please?

- How can I say no

To super-duper

Extra pretty please?

Enjoy.

And good luck

At the showcase tonight.

- Ah.

- Huh?

- [Muffled] aren't you going

To have some?

- What?

- [Gulps]

Aren't you going to have

Some gingerbread, a.z.?

- It looks really good,

But would your mum mind

If I had this apple instead?

- An apple?

- I try to eat more fruits

Than sweets,

Especially before a performance.

[Crunching]

- Hmm.

You're really not

Gonna eat that?

- No.

- Okay.

More for us.

- [Sniffing]

Mmm.

- Mmm.

Yeah.

Best-tasting mittens ever.

- Mmm.

Scrumptious boots too.

- No, thanks.

[Light instrumental music]

♪

- [Sighs]

- Ah.

- Ah,

What a yummy day.

- I am stuffed full

Of good stuff.

- Me too.

And I can't wait

To dance in the show tonight.

In fact, I think

I'll do my dance right now.

[Holiday music]

♪

♪ It's here,

It's here ♪

♪ This magic time of year

♪ When the candles burn

So bright ♪

♪ Surprise, surprise

♪ Just open up your eyes

♪ See candy canes

All red and white ♪

♪ Presents

Round the holiday tree ♪

♪ There'll be some

For you and me ♪

- ♪ Yes, it's holiday time

- ♪ The best time of the year

- ♪ We love holiday time

- ♪ When everybody's here

- ♪ Yes, it's holiday time

- ♪ Come on,

Shout out a cheer ♪

- ♪ Hip, hooray

For holiday time ♪

- Huh?

- What's wrong, angelina?

- The weirdest thing

Just happened.

[Gasps]

Marco,

Do you see what I see?

- ♪ It's the best

♪ It's holiday time

- Marco.

Marco?

- What is it?

- I have

A terrible stomachache.

- [Groans]

So do i.

It's really bad.

- Are you guys okay?

- I think

We ate too much.

- I feel awful.

My stomach

Is really, really full.

And it's almost time

For the show.

Oh.

- Yeah, we better hurry back

To the school.

Can you guys make it?

- Slow down, a.z.

It hurts when I walk.

- Uh-oh.

I better go on ahead

And tell ms. Mimi

You're on your way.

Feel better, you two.

- What happens

If we don't feel better?

- Don't worry.

I can always dance,

No matter what.

- Angelina, marco,

There you are.

A.z. Told me

You weren't feeling well.

I was getting worried

You wouldn't show up.

- We made it,

Ms. Mimi...

Just barely.

- Do you think

You can still perform?

- I think so.

- Of course we can.

- Great.

The dance of the sugarplum

Fairy is up first.

And remember,

Light and airy,

Just like in rehearsal.

- Light and airy.

Right.

Okay.

- No...

[Gulps]

Problem.

[Playing tchaikovsky's

Dance of the sugarplum fairy]

♪

- Angelina.

Light and airy.

Light and airy.

[Playing clumsily]

Can we lighten up

On the celeste, marco?

- Oh, no.

I feel like I'm dancing

In mud.

Squish!

And my ballet slippers feel

Like they're made out of rocks.

♪

- Hang in there, angelina.

♪

[Applause]

- Well done, everyone.

I think the audience

Really enjoyed

The holiday showcase,

Even though two

Of our performers

Weren't at their best.

- Oh.

- Hmm.

- [Groans]

- Angelina and marco,

Are you feeling any better?

I do hope so.

Now it's time

For our holiday party.

- I baked holiday cookies

With my mother.

- And my dad

Made this figgy pudding.

- Here's my mum's

Gingerbread house.

But I can barely

Look at it now.

- Everything looks delicious,

Class.

Let's all enjoy a little treat.

- Take it from us...

- A little treat

Is all you need.

- What is wrong?

Aren't you two hungry?

- Not exactly.

- We're kind of the opposite

Of hungry.

- I know what might change

Your minds.

- A present

From mrs. Thimble.

Come and have

Some candy canes.

- [Chuckles]

I don't think I ever want to see

Another candy cane in my life.

- Me neither,

And they used to be

My favorite.

[Groans]

- [Sighs]

Maybe I'll have one

Next year.

- Yes, but just one.

Happy holidays, marco.

- Happy holidays, angelina.

- Now it's time to meet

Camembert's shining stars.

- My name is yibiao,

And I play the flute

At the juilliard pre-college.

[Playful flute music]

♪

And I started playing the flute

When I was seven.

♪

Before, I was playing

The electronic keyboard,

But then my mom was tired

Of carrying

The heavy electronic keyboard,

So she said that,

"You need to play

An instrument much lighter,"

And that's how I started flute.

♪

Breathing is pretty important

For flute,

Because if you breathe

At the wrong time,

You might run out of air

And you're gonna have to stop

And breathe,

And you have to be really,

Really careful on your fingers.

♪

Playing the flute

Is very cool.

- I'm harun.

- I'm christopher.

- We study at the juilliard

Music advancement program.

[Marimba music]

♪

- I play marimba,

And I like that instrument

Because of the sound.

♪

- The marimba

Is an african instrument.

You take a mallet,

You hit the wooden bar,

And the pipes

Make the wood louder.

The shorter bars

Stand for the high notes,

And the bigger bars

Stand for the lower notes.

♪

- I started playing percussion

At the age of three

On bottles and cans.

- We are playing

A duet called bourree.

A duet is two people playing

A piece with different parts.

Christopher is playing

The higher part,

And I am playing

The lower part.

♪

- I practice

Three hours a day.

♪

I like classical music.

- I like the romance.

I like the sadness,

The happiness.

- It's fun,

And it makes me happy.

[Light instrumental music]

♪

- The holiday season is here,

And you know what that means.

It's time to go

To my favorite ballet,

The nutcracker.

I'm in for a ginormous treat,

Because mum didn't just get

Any tickets to the nutcracker.

She got front-row tickets.

- Angelina.

Are you ready for school?

- Coming, mum.

[Sighs]

I wish the nutcrackerâ–

Were tonight.

I can't wait a minute longer.

- I want to see the nutcracker

Nut-cracking around the stage

And twirl and hop.

I've never seen

A nutcracker dance before.

- [Laughs]

The nutcracker is the name

Of the ballet, polly.

- Oh.

- It's about a little girl

Named clara

Who gets a nutcracker

As a christmas gift.

- Ooh!

- Then clara has a dream

That the nutcracker

Turns into a prince

And takes her

To magical places.

- I love magic places

With cool castles

And pretty pixies.

- No pixies.

But there's the sugarplum fairy

And dancing snowflakes.

- Have you chosen a friend

To bring to the ballet,

Angelina?

- I'm going

To invite alice.

We've danced the nutcrackerâ–

Since we were little.

But maybe vici.

She has invited me

To a lot of things.

- You'd better decide soon,

Honey.

You don't want

To hurt anyone's feelings.

- I won't.

I promise.

Hmm.

And what about gracie?

[Singing russian dance]

Alice, wait!

[Continues singing]

♪

- You sure have a lot

Of energy today, angelina.

- Guess why.

- Because it's crazy hair day?

- [Giggles]

That's tomorrow.

For a big hint, listen.

[Resumes singing]

♪

- Because you learned

The russian dance music

From the nutcracker?

- Close, but better.

- Because you love

The nutcracker...

- [Singing]

- And...

And you're going

To the nutcracker!

- And I'll see everything,

Even the dust on the curtain

And the smudges

On the dancers' shoes.

- Because you got

A telescope.

- No, I got

Front-row seats.

- Wow!

You'll have to tell me

Everything about it

So I can imagine

Being there.

- I can do better

Than that.

Mum bought

An extra ticket!

- Hmm?

[Gasps]

Yay!

We're going

To the nutcracker.

We've got front-row seats.

[Dramatic instrumental music]

♪

- ♪ There's a place

That I long for ♪

♪ One day I'll be there

♪ You can float on your tiptoes

With never a care ♪

♪

♪ It's a place that I dream of

All through the day ♪

♪ It's beautiful,

Delightful ♪

♪ The home of ballet

♪

♪ There's history and mystery

And I'm out there tall ♪

♪ It's clear to see

It's bliss for me ♪

♪ And I love it all

♪ I'm excited with tickets

For the very front row ♪

♪ One day prima ballerina

Will be my place, I know ♪

♪

♪ There's history and mystery

And I'm out there tall ♪

♪ It's clear to see

It's bliss for me ♪

♪ And I love it all

♪ I'm excited with tickets

For the very front row ♪

♪ One day prima ballerina

Will be my place, I know ♪

♪

♪ I know

[Humming russian dance]

♪

- Class, you have

Ten minutes left

To finish writing

About what you're going to do

Over the holidays.

- What are you doing,

Angelina?

- I'll give you a big hint:

It ends with a "cr*cker"

And starts with a "nut,"

And we've got

Front-row seats.

- Lucky you!

I wish your mum had bought

An extra ticket.

- Guess what.

She did.

- Girls, please quiet down.

- Will you take me?

- Um...

Maybe.

- Please?

Pretty please

With pointe shoes on top?

[Sings russian dance]

♪

- I guess so.

I mean, okay.

Yes.

- Please wait for recess

To chat, girls.

[Russian dance playing]

♪

- Guess what.

We're going

To the nutcracker.

- You're going

To the nutcracker too?

- With angelina.

We're sitting

In the front row.

- You didn't tell me your mom

Bought two extra tickets.

- Now we'll have

Twice the fun.

- You do have

Two extra tickets, right?

- Right?

- Uh. Ooh.

Hmm.

- You invited us both

And you only have one ticket?

- Oops.

I guess I just sort of

Kind of forgot.

I'm really, truly sorry.

- You mean one of us

Can't go?

- [Sighs]

- Let's all spin like tops,

Just like in the russian dance

From the nutcracker.

- You invited me first.

- I invited you

To a tap dance recital.

It's only fair

You invite me.

- Keep spinning.

Spin!

- But we've danced

The nutcracker together

Since we were three.

- If you invite alice,

Vici will be mad.

If you invite vici,

Alice will be mad.

So tell them both "sorry"

And invite me.

♪

- So who's it going to be?

Me?

- Me?

- Me?

- Me.

- Me.

- Me?

- Me?

- Me.

- Me.

- Me.

- I got so excited

About going to the nutcracker

That I goofed up big-time.

I invited too many people.

Now everyone is mad at me.

- Hmm.

There must be a solution.

Let's think.

- Okay, um...

Maybe we could bring alice

In a really big purse.

Or vici could dress up

As our pet canary.

Hmm.

They might not allow pets.

Or we could pretend

That they're a two-headed lady.

[Sighs]

On second thought,

That might not work.

Oh, dear.

- Whee!

Polly's going

To the nutcracker.

- Oh.

What do I do?

- You've got a hard decision

To make, sweetheart,

But I know you'll figure out

Something fair.

- Well, there is

One thing I could do,

But it's a super,

Super-duper tough thing to do,

Really, truly hard.

I did the super tough thing.

I gave up my ticket

So both alice and vici could go.

- We're ready to go.

Come on, polly.

- It's nutcracker time.

- You're forgetting something.

- You won't be getting far

Without these.

- Oh.

I'm sorry, sweetheart.

Your friends and I

So badly wish

There was one more ticket.

- Me too.

- We're proud of you for making

Such a grown-up choice.

- Thanks, dad.

Are you sure my name's

On the waiting list?

- Yes, but we can't

Get our hopes up.

- We'd better get going.

We have to pick up

Both alice and vici.

- There, there,

My ballerina.

Don't be sad.

We're going to have some fun

Of our own.

[Dance of the sugarplum fairy

Playing]

♪

- Here you go,

Clara.

- Thank you.

- And now let

The nutcracker begin.

[Russian dance playing]

♪

♪

♪

- Hmm.

[Telephone ringing]

- Now, who could that be?

Oh.

Yes, thank you.

We'll be right over.

Great news.

The box office just called

About the waiting list.

- They have an extra ticket?

- Two extra tickets.

They're not front row,

But they're good seats.

- Yippee!

- [Chuckles]

We'd better hurry.

We don't want to miss

The opening curtain.

- Maybe we should invite

Another friend.

[Laughs]

Just kidding.

To the nutcracker we go.

- Hola, marco here.

I'm listening to my friend

Yibiao play the flute.

Did you know that flutes

Have been around

Since the time

Of the cavemen?

Flutes are wind instruments,

Just like recorders.

That means air

Makes the sound.

Do you see how yibiao

Puckers his lips

To push air

Through the flute

And his fingers cover the holes

To make the different pitches?

I want to play flute

At the next camembert parade.

It's easier to carry

Than a tuba.

Gracias, yibiao!

Hola, marco here.

I know what that is.

It's a marimba.

Marimbas were first made

In africa and latin america.

They hit the wood blocks

With the mallets,

And those tubes underneath

Help make that cool sound.

Marimba

Is a percussion instrument.

A drum is another kind

Of percussion instrument,

Like the one I have here.

You hit it.

That's how it makes sound.

Magnifico!

I wonder if they'd let me play

My steel drum with them.

We'd make a great trio.