If you see an extra spark of magic in Mobile Ballet’s 2019 version of “The Nutcracker,” it’s no stage illusion. It’s thanks to actual romance.
That’s because a pair of near-about newlyweds will perform one of the centerpieces of Tchaikovsky’s classic Christmas work. When Lilliana Hagerman and Lamin Pereira clasp hands for the grand pas de deux between the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier, it echoes their same action at the wedding altar in August 2018.
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