‘Nutcracker Key West' Offers Twist on a Holiday Classic

It’s a holiday classic with a Key West twist. “Nutcracker Key West” opened Wednesday night with a cast of 18 professional dancers and 80 local children and adults. The production depicts the city's seafaring history and coral reef environment. It offers the subtropical tale of young Clara’s visit to the Sugarplum Fairy as dancers portraying snowy egrets, “jewels” from a 17th-century Spanish galleon shipwrecked off Key West, the Sea Star Mermaid and a nutcracke