Central California Ballet's highly entertaining Nutcracker Ballet has been recognized in Dance Magazine for its resurrection of the vengeful Mouse Queen from E.T.A. Hoffmann's original Nutcracker fairy tale. The whole family will delight in the festive Party Scene, the Battle of the Nutcracker General and the Mouse King, and Marie's Journey to the Land of Sweets where she meets the Sugar Plum Fairy and all the other beloved Nutcracker characters dancing to the beautiful Tchaikovsky music.