The Nutcracker

She also reimagined famous choreography from ballets like “The Nutcracker” and “Sleeping Beauty.”

His brilliant yuletime hit, “The Hard Nut,” based on Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker,” has been delighting audiences of all ages for three decades, but it does happen to include a comedic maid in drag.

He’d take Ava and Chace to ballet, and he used the truck to cart around equipment when he was volunteering backstage for the Westside School of Ballet’s production of “The Nutcracker” every year.

The Nutcracker Bonbon Collection features chocolates inspired by the San Francisco Ballet's rendition of Tchaikovsky’s holiday ballet.

On Dec. 20, 1980, they were volunteering at a production of “The Nutcracker” ballet at the Davis Community Center.