'Nutcracker' is heart-stirring ballet, but also an industry | Culture

When San Francisco Ballet begins this year's series of 33 performances, hundreds of dancers, musicians, ushers and backstage workers spend day and night for a month to entertain an expected audience of close to 100,000

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