Humorous gestures made this scene oh so human. When a stiff back prevents Grandmama (Carol Uphoff) from retrieving the present she dropped, Grandpapa (her real-life husband, Kurt Uphoff) uses his cane to retrieve it. This makes the 19th production in which the Uphoffs have been involved -- first wh
(At least, Ive never seen this in any other Nutcrackers). It features Kurt Uphoff as Mother Ginger and 10 young dancers, the Gingerkids, who manage to keep up with Mother as they cluster beneath her 9 foot-wide skirt. They pop out and dance and then get back under the skirt with the last kid p
