MADAME SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL MUSICAL
Thursday, December 19th, 2024
The holiday season’s penny-pinchingest gender-swapped skinflint is back, and once again belting her stone of a heart out, in The Nocturne Theatre’s all-around fabulous reprise of last year’s Scenie-winning Best World Premiere Musical, Madame Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Musical.
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OY! TO THE WORLD ~ CHRISTMAS WITH A TWIST!
Monday, December 16th, 2024
A couple dozen of your all-time holiday favorites get performed to perfection in OY! To The World ~ Christmas With A Twist!, back for its second December at the El Portal Theatre and once again celebrating a great big bunch of Christmas classics with one very special thing in common. Jewish songwriters wrote them all.
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TROUBIES’ HOME ALONE-LY HEARTS CLUB BAND
Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
The Troubies are back with one of their most entertaining holiday shows ever, Troubies’ Home Alone-ly Hearts Club Band, a Troubadour Theater Company mash-up of the movie that made Macaulay Culkin a pint-sized star and the album that helped establish the Beatles as arguably the most ground-breaking band in pop music history.
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JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA: THE MUSICAL
Monday, December 9th, 2024
The meddling matchmaker you can’t help but love has returned to Chance Theater for the holidays—and in finer, feistier fettle than ever—in Mandy Foster’s incandescent star turn as Emma Woodhouse in the captivating return engagement of Chance’s 2018 holiday treat, Jane Austen’s Emma: The Musical.
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SANTASIA – A HOLIDAY COMEDY
Sunday, December 8th, 2024
Santasia – A Holiday Comedy is back at Sherman Oaks’ Whitefire Theatre for its 25th annual mash-up of madcap SNL-style skits, clever Claymation videos, hilarious Broadway musical parodies, nostalgic Christmases memories, and Brandon Loeser in drag, the best possible news for audiences seeking holiday comedy rated R-for-language and H-for-heart.
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MRS. DILBER’S CHRISTMAS CAROL
Sunday, December 8th, 2024It’s a clever, promising premise, and were it given less over-the-top treatment, Arthur M. Jolly’s Mrs. Dilber’s Christmas Carol just might be a winner, but excessively broad performances squander much of the good cheer Jolly’s script might otherwise inspire. (It would help too if you could understand more than half of what the actors are saying.)
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