One day after it was allegedly stolen, a moving truck storing "irreplaceable" sets and backdrops for an Ontario-wide tour of The Nutcracker has been recovered, according to the head of the ballet company.

“Someone stole Christmas, and now it’s back on,” Bengt Jörgen, artistic director and CEO for Jörgen Dance, told CBC Radio's Metro Morning Tuesday.

The company had issued a public plea Monday for anyone who saw the 26-foot truck to report it to police, saying it contained “the heart of our Ontario-wide holiday tour.”

Ballet Jörgen is set to perform the classic holiday ballet throughout late November and December to audiences everywhere from Burlington to Orillia to Ottawa. The ballet company had vowed to go ahead with Tuesday’s scheduled show in Burlington, even if the sets weren’t

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