Title: SKIP IT
Product review: I wish I could give this no stars. This is a drab, cheerless, and--judging by the resident reviews--vastly overrated, production of Tchaikovsky's "Christmas" entertainment. In fact, it conveys not the slightest degree of good cheer. I have half-a-dozen Nutcrackers on DVD, with that of the Royal Ballet (featuring the always graceful and lovely Cojocaru) being the most entertaining, best-danced, and most professionally produced, and that of the Kirov (with Lezhnina) being a close second. Forget this production--which is in a wholly different and vastly lower league, in almost every respect one might care to mention. It is cheerless, musty, drab, and dismal. (The audio is also unappealing--with the audience audio pickup sounding very odd indeed, as previous reviewers have noted; but the audio in general, audience aside, sounds as lifeless and drab as the performance and production is.) Oh, by the way--my disc also "froze up" at around 63 minutes, on every player I tried. No major loss, that!
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