Nutcracker

I have seen several Nutcrackers over the past few days - granted most of them have been on t.v. - only 1 live. But I must ask, what is so wrong with the original story - Clara gets a Nutcracker, she goes to sleep with it - she then dreams (or does she!?!?!) that a clan of evil mice attack her and her nutcracker comes alive, the then hits the mouseking with her shoe, mouseking dies, Nutcracker is transformed back into a human, and then she flies off to a magical land of sweets with her beloved Nutcracker Prince? Why do we have Arabs with scimitars abducting Clara or creep stuffed animal Nutcrackers and mouse queens avenged their dead mouse king husbands or bears rolling around the stage or setting in a circus or cross dressing snowflakes? Can't we just have a simple Christmas story with pretty dancing and TONS of glitter? I mean - that IS why most people go to see it, right? The glitter?