The Sugar Plum Sisters

Sisters Olivia and Mary Thomas MacKinnon competed over the lead role in The Nutcracker at a special performance in Mobile, Alabama. Leotards on, hair up, they each embodied Clara in their own way—and they were ready to shine. Only, the stage curtain looked suspiciously like table linens. The ticket sellers resembled their three younger siblings. The dancer who played the Prince, just like their older brother. The audience? Their parents.