This production used the ballet's original plot and was choreographed by Willam Christensen, who danced the role of the Cavalier.
[1] Gisella Caccialanza, the wife of Lew Christensen, danced the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy.
[2] The staging was a huge success and one critic wrote: "We can't understand why a vehicle of such fantastic beauty and originality could be produced in Europe in 1892 with signal success [a factually erroneous claim] and never be produced in its entirety in this country until 1944.
The San Francisco Ballet performs The Nutcracker annually to this day, though not necessarily with Christensen's choreography (their most recent version is choreographed by Helgi Tomasson).
[3] The stage success of the Christensen version marked the first step in making productions of The Nutcracker annual Christmas season traditions all over the world – a phenomenon that did not really come to flower until the late 1960s.