Holiday Show Traditions

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Do any of you have any holiday shows, pageants, programs, ballets, movies, etc., that you ALWAYS attend or watch as part of your family traditions?

For us, it’s the Nutcracker. It’s been a part of our family since our girls were tiny mice in their first ballet school production. Every year, someone in the family is either producing a “Nutcracker,” dancing or skating in a Nutcracker, or at least attending a Nutcracker. I would like to write a book about the Gospel in the Nutcracker.

Also, I really love National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, with Chevy Chase. I watch this every year and never get tired of it.

I would love to attend a production of The Christmas Carol every year, but unfortunately, nothing seems to have become an annual production around here. Productions come and go. So I usually watch the movie with George C. Scott, my personal favorite version.

And of course, the annual church children’s Christmas pageant–love it! I loved it when I was Protestant and love it more as a Catholic! (I usually play piano for it.) I would LOVE to write a book called Christmas Pageants, with little text–just pictures of various children’s Christmas pageants all around the world.

How about your family?
 
Tuba Christmas, started when DD started playing tuba at her new school in 9th grade, band was great, helped her make friends in new school, new town, she is still close to some of those kids, still plays in a brass quintet, with her DH, and her kids are all in band, too, eldest now in 9th grade, and going to her first tuba Christmas with Mom (thanks to Tucker Jolly, U of Akron for bringing this tradition to NE Ohio). gd plays trumpet but will be taking a euphonium to TC, hope she gets better in the next 2 weeks

I have a secret desire, shared by no one in my family, to see those Somebody on Ice shows each year, loved Sesame street when those grandkids were small, but that was the last time I saw one. If one comes here I may just go by myself.
 
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Do any of you have any holiday shows, pageants, programs, ballets, movies, etc., that you ALWAYS attend or watch as part of your family traditions?

For us, it’s the Nutcracker. It’s been a part of our family since our girls were tiny mice in their first ballet school production. Every year, someone in the family is either producing a “Nutcracker,” dancing or skating in a Nutcracker, or at least attending a Nutcracker. I would like to write a book about the Gospel in the Nutcracker.

Also, I really love National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, with Chevy Chase. I watch this every year and never get tired of it.

I would love to attend a production of The Christmas Carol every year, but unfortunately, nothing seems to have become an annual production around here. Productions come and go. So I usually watch the movie with George C. Scott, my personal favorite version.

And of course, the annual church children’s Christmas pageant–love it! I loved it when I was Protestant and love it more as a Catholic! (I usually play piano for it.) I would LOVE to write a book called Christmas Pageants, with little text–just pictures of various children’s Christmas pageants all around the world.

How about your family?
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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is a must see for all families…too funny!!

We also see the Nutcracker, and/or go to the symphony (just dh and I do that–usually Handel’s Messiah) It’s just such a lovely addition to the season, and tickets are usually pretty cheap depending on when you buy them. I am still feeling my way out here in Tampa Bay…but I hear there is a nice symphony here.

Other show tradition:
Polar Express
ELF
Rudolph (the old old version)
Grinch Stole Christmas with Jim Carrey…really laugh on that one!

Too bad we are not in the same area annie…I too share that same secret desire. My kids laugh when we suggest it though.🤷
 
My family loves,really loves ELF.
“SANTA, IS COMEING!!! I KNOW HIM”
I really like Will Ferell.
 
hey all on SE Michigan thread
anybody remember the big Christmas show at the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn (a big event venue near the Ford HQ that burned down in the 70s). Went once with a friend’s family as a child and it made a huge impression on me, for years it was my standard against which I measured all other Christmas entertainment.
 
Em_in_FL said:
We always try to go see the “Candlelight Processional” at EPCOT, where a celebrity guest speaker reads the Nativity story from Scripture and is accompanied by a GLORIOUS choir!
It’s BEAUTIFUL and brings tears to my eyes every single year.
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Disney does Christmas amazingly well. Really festive, beautiful…just a great experience. Dh wants to take us all to the Mickey Mouse Christmas party this year…

It’s funny…DH calls Mickey Mouse “his boss.” 😛
 
The ORIGINAL Grinch, please - Chuck Jones + Boris Karloff = OHyeah!

And the old stopmotion specials, especially 'The Year Without a Santa Claus!" Who can help but rock out a little bit to 'I’m Mr Heatmeister!" 😃
 
Nepenthe said:
The ORIGINAL Grinch, please - Chuck Jones + Boris Karloff = OHyeah!

And the old stopmotion specials, especially 'The Year Without a Santa Claus!" Who can help but rock out a little bit to 'I’m Mr Heatmeister!" 😃
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Can’t be beat.👍
 
the big memory event when we raised our kids in Cleveland was to drive by the Christmas lighting display on the grounds of GE HQ in East Cleveland, spectacular, a gift to the city. Christmas concert downtown, with light show and fireworks, broadcast on local radio and TV stations, was another must attend event. Nutcracker with Cleveland Ballet, which started in the 70s as part of effort to renovate and restore downtown theaters, was also an annual event.

also had to make the walk down Euclid avenue to check out the window displays at Halle’s, Higbee’s, Lord and Taylor (all gone now).

In those years we usually spent Thanksgiving with NE Indiana grandparents, included Christmas parade and shopping in Chicago at Marshall fields, lunch under their big multi-story tree, visit to Santa on the toy dept., and Peter and the Wolf concert at Orchestra Hall.
 
We watch A Christmas Story! Over and over and over again! It’s on for 24 hours on TBS.
“You’ll shoot your eye out!” I love it. We had our DD2 on Christmas Eve and so I sat in the hospital that night with my new little baby, hubby had to go home to our 2 year old, and laughed watching that silly movie. I think I know it off by heart now, but it’s still cute.
 
Nepenthe said:
The ORIGINAL Grinch, please - Chuck Jones + Boris Karloff = OHyeah!

And the old stopmotion specials, especially 'The Year Without a Santa Claus!" Who can help but rock out a little bit to 'I’m Mr Heatmeister!" 😃
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I love “The Year Without a Santa Claus”. My hubby got me the little collectable people last year for Christmas and the movie too.

It’s A Wonderful Life is my favorite movie, I don’t wait for the holidays to watch it. I watch it year round!
 
For me it’s attending the CBC radio’s reading of “A Christmas Carol” at one of the local churches. It’s done in 4 parts with 2 read by local CBC personnel, one by a CBC personality from the national network and one by a local ‘celebrity’.

This reading is interspersed with Christmas carols by the local high school ensemble and is always followed by refreshments.

I also attend a “Carol Sing” organized by the various Christian Churches. This one moves from parish to parish each year and consists of readings of the Gospel Nativity passages, interspersed with carols by local parish choirs.
 
A Christmas Story…of course:thumbsup: (DEFINITELY MANDATORY)

Then there’s the animated “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”

And Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer.
Those are the main ones…but of course there’s more…“Santa Claus is coming to town” (Honk:D )
And then there’s radio shows…sigh…I love that time of year:heart:
 
If I can find one, a “sing along” of Handel’s Messiah.

And - of course - Midnight Mass! Yeah, I know, it’s not a show - but it is a family tradition!

God bless us all,

Ruthie
 
“Year Without A Santa Claus” and Midnight Mass are my favs:)

And, not really a show, but as an Italian American, I couldn’t help but mention “Dominick the Donkey” 😃 Chingity ching! :D:D
 
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