You could think of Ballet Midwest’s annual production of “The Nutcracker” ballet as a Christmas musical fantasy in stereo.
That’s because the productions at 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Topeka Performing Arts Center, 214 S.E. 8th, involve essentially two different casts performing the classic scenes to the iconic music of Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky.