For The children Clara and Fritz I’ve chosen young(looking) Latvia and Lichtenstein…!
As for the talented and magical toymaker Drosselmeyer I’ve chosen Germany!

The nutcracker will be played by the stern but formidable Switzerland!
Ah and the president and his wife would most certainly be—
Ivan… You’re not trying to start another new-years joke are you?
Ah! No sir, never!

Ahem! Back to my story! That night, after everyone else has gone to bed, Clara returned to the parlor to check on her beloved nutcracker.
But! *gasp* A battle had broken out between the mice and the gingerbread soldiers! Behind them stands the Mouse King— Austria!

As the Mouse King advances on the wounded Nutcracker, our brave heroine Clara throws her slipper at him, distracting him long enough for the Nutcracker to stab him! Ura!

The handsome nutcracker-prince leads Clara through the moonlit night, into a pine forest in which the snowflakes (Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland) dance around them. Aren’t they pretty?

In act two Clara and the Prince travel to the beautiful Land of Sweets which is ruled by the Diva Sugar Plum Fairy— Poland!

For the celebration of sweets casting would be easy! Spain would play his chocolate, Arabia for coffee, China for tea…
Of course I would make my own appearance for the candy canes!
Ah! Denmark would have been a snowflake but he must come and be a shepherdesses!

I think England would make a great Mother Gigogne with all of his children to emerge from under his enormous skirt.

And ah, the Italy brothers and Francis would make such a lovely string of flowers! Wouldn’t they be lovely? I wonder if they smell just as nice as they look…
I-is that a strange thing to wonder?

Ah but I won’t give away the ending! And there are a lot of other roles to fill— so you’ll just have to come visit and watch it for yourself!