Richard E. Grant: Shiver

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

Shiver

Shiver: [shows Clara Marie's old throne room] This is your mother's throne, Your Grace.
Sugar Plum: Have you come to save us, Clara?
Clara: No.
[the regents look disappointed]
Clara: I'm sorry. I didn't even know this place existed before today. You see, I was looking for a Christmas present from my godfather.
Hawthorne: [delighted] Oh, I love Christmas!
[to Sugar Plum and Shiver; lost]
Hawthorne: What's Christmas?
Clara: Then I ran into this homeless mouse.
Shiver: [concerned] Mouse?
Clara: And that's when I met the captain.
Philip: [enters the throne room] We barely escaped Mother Ginger. And the Mouse King.
Sugar Plum: [gasps] You met Mother Ginger? Oh my dear Clara, you're lucky to be alive!
Hawthorne: You must promise never to go back to the Land of Amusements, Clara.
Sugar Plum: [frustrated] Hawthorne!
Shiver: [also frustrated] Its title has been restricted.
Hawthorne: Oh, of course. I meant the Fourth Realm.
[to Sugar Plum and Shiver]
Hawthorne: Apologies. I'm just so upset.
[to Clara]
Hawthorne: Forget I ever mentioned the Land of Amusements.
[Sugar Plum and Shiver silence him]

Shiver: [to Clara, as she's attempting to escape the tower] My dear, that doesn't look very secure.
Hawthorne: [worried] You can't!
[to Shiver]
Hawthorne: It's not gonna work.
Clara: It's just the laws of physics.
Philip: Do those laws ALWAYS work?
Clara: Always.
[under her breath]
Clara: As far as I know.

Sugar Plum: [to Clara, after she's dressed for the ballet about the four realms] You look like the daughter of a queen.
[the opening of "March of the Toys" from the ballet's first act plays as they enter the theater]
Shiver: [addressing the residents of the three realms] Ladies and gentlemen, on this momentous day, in the history of the Four Realms...
Hawthorne: We are proud and *privileged* to present before you, Clara Stahlbaum, daughter of Queen Marie!
[all applaud]