Thank you for adding your thoughts Ann. If Wheeldon created it with children in mind, with an eye on a Christmas show (I shall conclude this justifies it...) then I can understand the hype. After a far-too-long Act 1 - with hardly any dancing in it - I found myself wondering if by mistake I'd gone to a West-End musical instead of the ROH to watch Ballet, and I was not the only one feeling so.
Kids loved it, great. Not me (except the fabulous Card Dance). As far as I am concerned it was "much ado about nothing".