Still, the Oregon Ballet Theatre is set to retire its Balanchine "Nutcracker" in the near future.

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The teenager has also performed with both English National Ballet and American Ballet Theatre at the Coliseum in London in performances of Nutcracker and Le Corsaire.

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He has two major roles in this year's "Nutcracker" production.

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" Ms. Morgan had to lobby roughly 60 companies, nearly twice as many as in the past, to fund this "Nutcracker.

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The custom of selecting an official holiday theme began in the 1960s when First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy created a nutcracker-themed Christmas for her daughter Caroline.

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And as a little bit of a history lesson, the custom of selecting an official holiday theme began in the 1960s when First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy created a nutcracker-themed Christmas for her daughter Caroline.

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In the story, whose details vary among productions, young Marie Stahlbaum receives a nutcracker on Christmas Eve from her mysterious godfather with an eye patch, Herr Drosselmeier.

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