Nutcracker Rouge

When I was talking to my family in Ohio and Florida about the latest version of the "Nutcracker" that I would be seeing that weekend, it became an instant joke - a self-parody of Downtown Manhattan avant-garde theater that folks in New York take for granted, and everyone else dismisses as pretentious artsy-fartsy nonsense.

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