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Tulsa Ballet tries to rescue holiday with 'The Lost Nutcracker'

Once upon a time, Tulsa Ballet decided not to present “The Nutcracker” during the holiday season. It was 1971, when members of the ballet’s board of directors decided that audiences had grown tired of “The Nutcracker” and that something new — or, at least, different — should be staged in the days before Christmas. Moscelyne Larkin, one of Oklahoma’s five Native American ballerinas who founded Tulsa Ballet with her husband, Roman Jasinski, recalled that moment during a 2002 interview with the Tulsa World. “I remember Jascha (her pet name for Jasinski) telling them it would be a mistake,” Larkin said at the time. “But they insisted and instead we did ‘Coppelia’ during the holidays. Now, I love ‘Coppelia,’ but it just didn’t work the way ‘Nutcracker’ works.”