Me neither. But regardless of the fact that I'm still wearing shorts, albeit with a fleece, holiday entertainment is bearing down on us all.
For starters, it's almost time for the Mayor's Half-Price Tickets, aka the Menino Holiday Special. This is a pretty good deal that families and other financially challenged types (i.e. all of us) can use to brighten their holiday season. For the seventh year, thousands of half-price tickets to many Boston-area holiday shows go on sale Nov. 1 at MayorsHolidaySpecial.com. Included are Boston Ballet’s "Nutcracker" and the show that elbowed it out of the Wang Center a few years ago - the Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes - along with Holiday Pops and many more. New this year, the site will offer a $10-off coupon for local restaurants and holiday businesses.
Meanwhile, tickets went on sale this week for the 40th anniversary Christmas Revels, running for 16 performances Dec. 17-29 at Sanders Theatre. This is mondo Cambridge, so wear your Birkenstocks, but also a plenty good time for the whole fam. This year's scenario features a return to the original setting, Haddon Hall, the English medieval manor in Derbyshire pictured on "The Christmas Revels Songbook."
In the 1920s, the old manor house had been abandoned for 200 years and was threatened with demolition. The Revels' story begins with a last visit to the neglected family seat by the 10th Duke of Rutland and his family - who soon discover that they are interrupting ghostly preparations by previous owners to celebrate winter solstice. "On a stage teeming with singers, fools, giants, dragons, medieval knights, Renaissance dancers and Victorian masquers, the Duke and his family are given a lesson in the values and pleasures of traditional celebration." (I think that's the dragon, above.)
Tickets, $30-$52, are on sale through the Harvard Box Office, at 617-496-2222 or www.revels.org.
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