Debbie Allen Dance Academy: the Hot Chocolate Nutcracker December 11, 2010

The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker is Debbie Allen's hilarious and culturally rich take on the perennial Christmas Classic. The story follows the traditional, with a few changes in name, until it's time for the Mouse King to do battle with the Hot Chocolate Nutcracker The Mouse King/ Harvey (a real New Yorker) refuses to repeat the same old tired story where 'The Nutcracker comes alive, we do battle and lose.' Harvey decides to organize the mice to protest and that's where all the fun begins. 'What are we Mice or Men?' Harvey and his two sidekicks, Schmink and Buckey, take you on a journey that lands in Fairyland, Candy Cane Land, The Jungles of the Suriname, China, Russia and New Orleans/Jazzland.