Nutty Nutcracker nuts. Limbering up for their guest spots in the National Ballet of Canada's New Year' Eve production of The Nutty Nutcracker, a sligh(...)

Original Toronto Star caption: Nutty Nutcracker nuts. Limbering up for their guest spots in the National Ballet of Canada's New Year' Eve production of The Nutty Nutcracker; a slightly cracked version of the Christmas classic; are actress Shirley Douglas as the Lilac Fairy; actor Gordon Pinsent as Prince Florimund from Sleeping Beauty; National Ballet staffer Karin Scott as a Gingerbread Men; CITY-TV's John Burgess as the butler; and spry Barbara Hamilton as the Ugly Dutchess.