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An article about the Dance-Along Nutcracker.
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Anything goes at 'Dance-Along Nutcracker: The Musicals'
BROADWAY babies, grab your tutus and your sense of whimsy for the 2002 "Dance-Along Nutcracker: The Musicals," which plays three shows Saturday and Sunday at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
This very San Francisco event places the beloved holiday story before the footlights of Broadway, and director Jadine Louie has mixed well-known show tunes with the traditional Tchaikovsky music. "You'd be surprised how well Nutcracker-style flourishes work in the music from 'Guys and Dolls' and 'West Side Story,'" she says.
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