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[Sacajaweau]

Never got into it...Different time I guess...I’m 82.

[NorthernDancer]

Nice to know the history. As a pre-teen and teen, I danced in many performances of The Nutcracker.

[murron]

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[Fiji Hill]

In 1981 I had a most unusual experience with "The Nutcracker." A Communist group that, if I remember correctly, was called the New World Society or something like that, presented a televised screening of a live performance of the ballet from Moscow.

Most of the audience were Communists (except for Yours Truly), and they ate it up. Indeed, it was a fine performance, and the quality of the video was very good given that 1981 was still in the analog era.

Afterward,the MC wished us a merry Christmas, which I thought was very un-Marxist-Leninist, but someone in the audience shouted in Russian, "S novim godom!" (to the new year, or happy new year), the preferred holiday greeting during the Soviet era.

I guess you can say that I experienced a Red Christmas.

[real saxophonist]

Pretty cool part for bass clarinet.