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Quotes
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Shiver : [shows Clara Marie's old throne room] This is your mother's throne, Your Grace.
Sugar Plum : Have you come to save us, Clara?
Clara : No.
[the regents look disappointed]
Clara : I'm sorry. I didn't even know this place existed before today. You see, I was looking for a Christmas present from my godfather.
Hawthorne : [delighted] Oh, I love Christmas!
[to Sugar Plum and Shiver; lost]
Hawthorne : What's Christmas?
Clara : Then I ran into this homeless mouse.
Shiver : [concerned] Mouse?
Clara : And that's when I met the captain.
Philip : [enters the throne room] We barely escaped Mother Ginger. And the Mouse King.
Sugar Plum : [gasps] You met Mother Ginger? Oh my dear Clara, you're lucky to be alive!
Hawthorne : You must promise never to go back to the Land of Amusements, Clara.
Sugar Plum : [frustrated] Hawthorne!
Shiver : [also frustrated] Its title has been restricted.
Hawthorne : Oh, of course. I meant the Fourth Realm.
[to Sugar Plum and Shiver]
Hawthorne : Apologies. I'm just so upset.
[to Clara]
Hawthorne : Forget I ever mentioned the Land of Amusements.
[Sugar Plum and Shiver silence him]
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Sugar Plum : [to Clara] The ballet tells the story of the Four Realms. How your mother discovered our world.
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Sugar Plum : [to Clara, after she's dressed for the ballet about the four realms] You look like the daughter of a queen.
[the opening of "March of the Toys" from the ballet's first act plays as they enter the theater]
Shiver : [addressing the residents of the three realms] Ladies and gentlemen, on this momentous day, in the history of the Four Realms...
Hawthorne : We are proud and *privileged* to present before you, Clara Stahlbaum, daughter of Queen Marie!
[all applaud]
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Sugar Plum : Boys in uniforms with weapons! Sends a quiver right through me.
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Sugar Plum : [to Clara] Mother Ginger wants to rule the Realms!