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elleng

(135,988 posts) Wed Dec 15, 2021, 01:05 AM Dec 2021

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. Alan Cumming recounts the origin story of how a prince got put into a nutcracker. Special | 1h 24m

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**Nutcracker and Mouse King on MPT, PBS, Ch. 22, w Alan Cumming. NOW! (Original Post) elleng Dec 2021 OP

ETA Hoffman? elleng Dec 2021 #2

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1. I got the book which includes the original story a few years ago and read it every year now

Wed Dec 15, 2021, 01:11 AM

Dec 2021

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2. ETA Hoffman?

Wed Dec 15, 2021, 02:01 AM

Dec 2021

I went to NYCity Ballet every year as a kid, and never read the book.