My parents and I went to see The Hard Nut, which is a fun twist on The Nutcracker. With all the same music, the thing that was tweaked was the plot.
Marie, a young girl, gets a nutcracker from a friend of the family for Christmas. At night, everything suddenly turns gigantic. Marie is attacked by the Rat King and she kills him with her slipper. Then she blacks out.
That part is exactly the same to the story of The Nutcracker, but here's when it changes. Marie is ill, so her friend tells her the story of a princess named Pirlipat. Pirlipat was very pretty, but she got cursed by the Rat Queen and turned ugly. The only way to save her was to crack the Hard Nut in your teeth.
A young man succeeded, and Pirlipat became beautiful again, but she dumped him. At this point, Marie interrupted the story and pledged her love to the young man, and they get married. I recommend this to anyone.
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