Ovation TV is showing four versions of The Nutcracker ballet during the month of December, culminating in a Christmas Eve viewer’s choice and a marathon of all four back-to-back on Christmas Day. The different performances, in order from traditional to “out there” are: a 1989 performance by the Bolshoi Ballet, Peter Martins’ 1993 film of George Balanchine’s version(little Macaulay Culkin is the Nutcracker Prince), Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! from 2003, and, my favorite as it’s the only one I’ve seen live, Mark Morris’ The Hard Nut.