With a little help from Clara, the Nutcracker and the tin soldiers win the battle and defeat the Mouse King and his army. The mice retreat and the Nutcracker is transformed from a wooden toy into ...

Conceived just a smidge over two centuries ago, E.T.A. Hoffmann’s 1816 short story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse ... between rebel mice and an army of tin soldiers. To be fair, that war ...

“The Nutcracker” has always been a child-friendly ... as the Silberhaus parlor is magicked into a battlefield. The tin soldiers deploy an especially nimble battle strategy to crush an invasion ...

Drosselmeyer’s toys come to life at midnight in the ballet, and the Nutcracker leads tin soldiers and ginger bread men in battle against an army of mice. The new production will transplant the ...