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12/11/2004 Entry: "Nutcracker"

My sister B---- who lives in Delaware is making a short-notice visit to Seattle, so last night she, my sister M--- who lives in Seattle, and I all went to see the Nutcracker by the Pacific Northwest Ballet as a girls' night out. What fun! This is the production with set designs by Maurice Sendak (Sendak's take on the ballet -- warning, music on page), so it's not too sugary-sweet. There's a dark side to the E.T.A. Hoffman original story (more music).

The ballet is well worth seeing and moves along at a brisk pace. I did not find myself, like one young boy I heard about at another Nutcracker, exclaiming aloud in the second act, "Oh no, not another dance!"