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December 05, 2012 Theater

The Nutcracker Strikes Again

Big Changes at OBT Amid a Familiar Holiday Show

by Jenna Lechner

IT'S AS PREDICTABLE and perennial as flu season. This weekend, Oregon Ballet Theatre opens George Balanchine's The Nutcracker—the most famous version of the most famous ballet in the world, the show is both a hallmark and an epitome of the holidays: half…

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