Nov. 10—It doesn’t take Paula Rhea longer than a heartbeat to draw from memory the story of the first nutcracker she ever received. It’s as if the answer to that particular question is always at hand.”When I was a child, probably 9 or 10 years old, my mother took us to see ‘The Nutcracker’ at the University of Northern Arizona for Christmas,” she said. This would have been around 1974, and Rhea has carried that performance of Tchaikovsky’s seminal Christmas story in her heart ever since.When she opened her gifts that Christmas, there were two nutcrackers among them — a tin soldier and the mouse king, both characters from the ballet.Rhea loved and cherished these gifts from her mother, …
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