Clara fell asleep under the Christmas tree with the wooden Nutcracker soldier in her arms. But in the middle of the night she woke up to a frightening scene! Out of nowhere, large mice dressed in ...

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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a story written in 1816 by E T A Hoffmann in which young Marie Stahlbaums favorite Christmas toy the Nutcracker comes alive and after defeating the evil Mouse ...

"The Nutcracker ... as guests in the party scene, as bonbons, angels, as flowers. The youngest performers, who are only five or six years old, appear briefly as baby mice. The live orchestra ...

George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker is for ... In his signature scene, using mime to illustrate how he defeated the Mouse King, Lomba made crystal-clear the distinction between that menacing ...