Blog Post 3-"Nutcracker" Riddles With Many Answers

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/arts/dance/03nutcracker.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The Nutcracker is about how christmas time there are mice, toy soldiers, and growing christmas trees. During the ballet, the music that is used is Tchaikovsky's music. Some of the transformations that are made, are the Nutracker transforming from that into a prince. The point of the story is that the prince learns about the art of dance and transforms after that into a prince.

Two questions that I have are why do they make the Nutcracker such a simple story but it is hard to understand for some? How is the nutracker a comedy?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/arts/music/06gilbert.html

The New York Philharmonic perforemd Tchaikovsky's music for the holiday performance of the nutcracker