Caroline Calouche & Co.'s "Clara's Trip: A Nutcracker Story" for Two at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center ($60 Value)

When you alter a classic story, you discover new things about it, such as the fact that Hamlet, Space-Monkey will never live up to its poster. See a more successful adaptation with this GrouponLive deal to Caroline Calouche & Co.'s production of Clara's Trip: A Nutcracker Story at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center's Booth Playhouse. For $30, you get two tickets for general admission (a $60 value). Choose from the following shows:

• Friday, December 7, at 7 p.m.
• Saturday, December 8, at 2 p.m.
• Saturday, December 8, at 7 p.m.

A modern-day retelling of The Nutcracker, Clara's Trip: A Nutcracker reimagines the original story's child heroine as Clara LeBlanc, a young, single, and extremely accident-prone woman. Her klutziness has resulted in countless ruined first dates and countless trips to the city's most romantic emergency rooms. But when her friend Angela Flowers invites her to a singles holiday party, Clara's luck starts to change. As Tchaikovsky's lush ballet score begins to fill the air and an atmosphere of magic creeps in, so does a blend of traditional ballet, breakdancing, and aerial set pieces.