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What does a well-bred balletomane do in a strange town over Christmas? He goes to sample the local versions of The Nutcracker, which is just what I did in my first holiday season in my native Britain in thirty-eight years. Why, oh why, you ask (should you be melodramatic, or optimistic, enough to ask questions of poor, dumb printed pages), in the blithe, spring-like month of April, am I writing about The Nutcracker, that most wintry and Christmassy of balletic occasions? Well, I would hate to disillusion anyone, but magazines have a long lead time, so what hopefully is springtime for the reader is still the chili of winter for the writer.
George Balanchine once told me that The Nutcracker was his favorite ballet. True or not--other days seemed to produce other...
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