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Holiday shows are a staple of many community theatres’ seasons, and they come in all levels of complexity and cost. But why do them at all? Don’t we get enough holiday spirit from every other corner without feeling like we absolutely have to mount a holiday production? If your talent pool of actors is coming off a big musical production are they going to want to jump into a Christmas (or other) holiday show? Questions like these may scare your troupe away from doing such productions. But maybe you should.
In this episode The Geeks discuss the considerable benefits of doing holiday shows, how they can be fun, relatively easy to put together, and how they provide an outreach to the community that your mainstage season might not.
Al Phlipp and the Woo Team provided our theme music, available from Music Alley.com.
Enjoyed hearing your Hoosier voices. Very nostalgic and informative. I’ve written and performed 3 times so far a one-man show titled A Visit With Robert Green Ingersoll. It’s a minimal set and props show. You asked for ideas.
How about a non-musical holiday show built around one- two- or three-person presentations appropriate to the holiday you’re celebrating (I do Ingersoll for our atheist Solstice celebrations). Act out brief sketches, comedic and serious, tell holiday stories, recall historical events and characters etc.
Hello to anyone who might remember me.
-Richard McNally (Cabin Fever, 2005)
Hi Richard,
Glad to hear from you — Thanks for the feedback. Your performance will live on forever in hearts of the audiences. Take care.
(I’m going to have to look up Ingersoll- – you’ve mentioned him before to me, I think.
Enjoyed hearing your Hoosier voices. Very nostalgic and informative. I’ve written and performed 3 times so far a one-man show titled A Visit With Robert Green Ingersoll. It’s a minimal set and props show. You asked for ideas.
How about a non-musical holiday show built around one- two- or three-person presentations appropriate to the holiday you’re celebrating (I do Ingersoll for our atheist Solstice celebrations). Act out brief sketches, comedic and serious, tell holiday stories, recall historical events and characters etc.
Hello to anyone who might remember me.
-Richard McNally (Cabin Fever, 2005)
Hi Richard,
Glad to hear from you — Thanks for the feedback. Your performance will live on forever in hearts of the audiences. Take care.
(I’m going to have to look up Ingersoll- – you’ve mentioned him before to me, I think.