<B>Twice as much sugar plum fun</B> <BR>By Mark Hinson in The Tallahassee Democrat<P><BR>No, you're not seeing double. This is the holiday weekend of the dueling Sugar Plum Fairies.<P>The Tallahassee Ballet will present its annual splashy, elaborate production of Tchaikovsky's beloved ballet "The Nutcracker," replete with a 37-piece live orchestra, this weekend at Ruby Diamond Auditorium.<P>Tallahassee's Ballet de Vie (formerly Pas de Vie) dance troupe is doing its smaller-scale, full-length version of "Nutcracker" on Saturday and Sunday at the FSU Mainstage Theatre, just down the hill from Ruby Diamond.<P>"One has glitz and spectacle, the other has passion and heart," said writer Ben Green, who was helping out with promotions for the Ballet de Vie production. "But, hey, I have a personal stake in this one."<P><A HREF="http://web.tallahasseedemocrat.com/content/tallahassee/2001/12/07/entertainment/1207.fea.nutcrackers.htm" TARGET=_blank><B>click for more</B></A><BR>