"I got to see a shortened version of the Nutcracker when I was little. I wanted to be one of the dancers and I begged and begged and begged until my parents got me lessons."

Eli laughed a bit, pausing in putting another pretzel into his mouth as he remembered back when he was little again. "The Sugar Plum Fairy is always performed by a woman but when I was little you could not tell me I wouldn't eventually get to dance her role one day."