The Nutcracker - the summed up dude version.

I had to photograph it tonight.. and had no idea what the hell the story was about (those days in elementary music classes really didn’t stick with me) so this is what I got out of it.

Children dance because they like toys. Evil fat man brings a nutcracker and gives kids nuts. Kids have to go to sleep, because they’ve been dancing too long. The fatman leads an army of ratmen in the night. The nutcracker (who’s head is clearly too large) is an awful fighter, but is also the defender against the fat evil guy and his ratmen. The nutcracker dies, and dissapears, and the girl dances with a random dude. For some reason the rat people just give up and go away. Everyone’s happy, they dance an hour, and then say good bye.

Afterwards I wikipedia’d the real line of events… and it turns out I was a little off. Oh well. Maybe the one I saw was a different version…