Today’s entertainment picks:

Today’s entertainment picks:

v “The Nutcracker,” 7:30 p.m.: Ballet Western Reserve presents this holiday classic at Powers Auditorium; 330-744-0264.

v “Honk!,” 7:30 p.m.: Acclaimed musical with a message at the Youngstown Playhouse, off Glenwood Avenue; 330-788-8739.

v Holiday Cabaret, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.: Family show by University Theater in Spotlight Theater, inside Bliss Hall, on the campus of Youngstown State University; 330-941-3105.

v “Homicidal for the Holidays,” 7:30 p.m.: A comic murder-mystery written by local resident Anthony Elliott, at the Penn State Shenango campus auditorium, 147 Shenango Ave., Sharon, Pa.; 724-983-2836.

v “A Christmas Carol,” 8 p.m.: Detailed sets and a seasoned cast put this production ahead of the pack. Salem Community Theatre, 490 E. State St., Salem; 330-332-9688.

“Frosty the Snowman” (8 p.m., CBS): Happy birthday!

“The Grammy Nominations Concert Live” (10 p.m., CBS): LL Cool J hosts this special where we get to hear some music and find out who will be battling it out for the music industry’s biggest prizes.

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Hopper painting fetches $40.5M

NEW YORK

Edward Hopper’s “East Wind Over Weehawken” has sold for $40.5 million — a new auction record for the artist.

The 1934 work depicts a streetscape of the New Jersey city across the Hudson River from New York.

It had been in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

An anonymous telephone bidder purchased the work at Christie’s on Thursday. The painting captures the melancholy of post-Depression life in America. Hopper considered it one of his best works.

Springsteen sheet sells for $197,000

NEW YORK

A handwritten, working lyric sheet for Bruce Springsteen’s 1975 hit “Born to Run” sold for $197,000 on Thursday at Sotheby’s.

The document used to be in the collection of Springsteen’s former manager, Mike Appel, according to Sotheby’s. It did not reveal the identity of either the seller or the buyer, a person bidding by telephone.

Most of the lines in this rough 1974 version, written in Long Branch, N.J., apparently are unpublished and unrecorded, but the manuscript does include “a nearly perfected chorus,” the auction house said.

The title track of Springsteen’s 1975 album has revved up generations of fans.

Springsteen is known to scrawl his songwriting stream-of-consciousness in notebooks. His thought process, written in blue ink on an 81/2-by-11 sheet of ruled notepaper, could trigger a spell-checker meltdown:

“This town’ll rip the [out your] bones from yourback / it’s a suicide trap [rap] [it’s a trap to catchthe young] your dead unless / you get out [we gotto] while your young so [come on! / with] take myhand cause tramps / like us baby we were born to run.”