Article: `Nutcrackers' everywhere, but Northrop won't dance.(ENTERTAINMENT)

Quick! Check under your bed! The odds are good that there's a version of "The Nutcracker" unfolding there right now: little mice at war with toy soldiers amid the dust bunnies, sugar plums capering through waltzing snowflakes amid your strewn socks. If not, there may be a production under your tea cozy or a matinee in the woodpile.

Nutty? After 30-plus years of "Nutcrackers," a person earns the right to be a little loony. Then again, in those 30 years I've seen "Nutcrackers" in barrooms and on ice. I've seen tap-danced "Nutcrackers" and jazz "Nutcrackers" and even a martial-arts "Nutcracker." I've seen "Nutcrackers" set in Harlem, Nuremburg, suburban ...

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