UTICA — Seven Utica Community Schools students will be performing in “An Irish Nutcracker” at 5 p.m. Dec. 20 at the McMorran Place Theater, 701 McMorran Blvd. in Port Huron.

The classic version of “The Nutcracker” is a two-act ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, where a young girl receives a nutcracker from her godfather as a Christmas present and later goes on to fight a mouse king and meet citizens from a magical world with her newly animated nutcracker.

The version of this story planned for ‘An Irish Nutcracker’ will swap out ballet and classical music with Irish dancing and music but will otherwise follow the same classic storyline.

“Act I starts at Claire’s house, a cottage in Ireland, where Claire’s friends and family gather for an Irish dance party, with traditional group ceili d

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