Apparently, Boston Ballet’s Nutcracker was good enough to get featured in Monday’s New York Times, but its “Nutcracker” wasn’t.

Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay spent last November and December “on a marathon tour in which I saw 27 different ‘Nutcracker’ productions around the country.”

Most of which, it seems, were better than the Boston Ballet’s production, which didn’t rate a mention alongside “Nutcrackers” in Seattle, Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and Richmond, Va. in Macaulay’s wrapup.

Not to mention, God forbid, New York.

But Boston got the consolation prize: its jumping Nutcracker pictured above illustrated the piece.

Hey – jump this, Alastair.

The Missus and I saw the Boston production last week and it seemed quite good. Then again, we don’t write for the Times.