The martial Nutcracker may have triumphed over the Mouse King in their first North American skirmish, but the production was hardly a winner when the San Francisco Ballet first presented the Russian import to the war-weary public in the winter of 1944.The response was so underwhelming that the next year the company, looking to established a holiday season tentpole, went back to Hansel and Gretel, which had received a similarly lukewarm reception in 1943.
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