On Christmas Eve, Mary's beloved Uncle Albert arrives with the gift of a wooden nutcracker doll ... An army of toothy rat creatures, led by the flamboyant Rat King and his devious mother, has ...
"Traditionally, in 'The Nutcracker' ballet ... While the bickering butler and maid are transformed into the Rat King and Queen, who invade the Stahlbaum home in a pirate ship made from a gravy ...
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a story written in 1816 by E T A Hoffmann in which young Marie Stahlbaums favorite Christmas toy the Nutcracker comes alive and after defeating the evil Mouse ...