Once it hits its stride, the world premiere musical comedy "The Nutcracker and I" by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (music), Gerard Alessandrini (lyrics) and Peter Brash (book) becomes a gorgeous holiday vest pocket spectacular as well as a loving, starry-eyed, comically conceived tribute to the isle of Manhattan, or, as it is refracted here, "Snow Globe City."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:07AM on December 11, 2011