Page 247 - Nuts to You - The Nutcracker Retold

Thank you!
A big, big thank you to Beverly Stephenson, who first asked me to write a musical based on The Nutcracker Ballet. Without her belief in me, this journey would never have started. (And a long, long journey its been!)
To my grandson, Trenten, who, in the official capacity of first audience and critique, laughed in all the right places and pointed out typos and grammatical errors with the aplomb of a 5th grader.
Thank you to my Beta Readers, who asked questions, applauded me on and encouraged me in more ways than one. Ruth Williams, Mardi Chalmers, and Debbie Parnakian, thank you!
To the one and only Debra Gayle Sut, without whom, none of us, would see my characters come to life . Thank you, Debra, for the months and months, and sketch upon sketch, it took to develop your wonderful and amazing illustrations.
And an enor-mouse thank you to Mary Huckstep, for taking on the task of taming my tenses, corralling my commas and making sense out of my sallies into silliness – which are plenty of fun but went on and on without end, kind of like this acknowledgem
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