Teatro Paraguas will present ‘A Musical Piñata For Christmas’ Dec. 13-22. Courtesy/Teatro Paraguas
TEATRO PARAGUAS News:
Teatro Paraguas will present its 12th annual community celebration A Musical Piñata for Christmas. The Teatro Paraguas Orchestra will play traditional New Mexican and Mexican carols, as well as original festive music.
Compania Chuscales y Mina Fajardo provide mesmerizing flamenco music and dance, and Ballet Folclórico Xochitl, led by Xochitl Ehrl, take the stage with joyous dances from Mexico.
Winter holiday poetry read by actors and a few skits pepper this family-friendly program. And of course, Santa Claus will appear to help all the kids in the audience bring down the Piñata at the end of the show.
Anchoring the performance is a short play by JoJo Sena Tarnoff and friends entitled Navidad en Nuevo México. In this free-wheeling Spanglish one-act, a mysterious and magical portal opens up above the Plaza in Santa Fe, and such famous Christmas characters as Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and the Little Drummer Boy find themselves transformed into local versions of themselves enjoying tamales and singing carols.
- WHAT: 12th Annual A Musical Piñata for Christmas community celebration
- WHEN: Dec. 13-22, Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m.
- WHERE: Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie in Santa Fe
- TICKETS: $15 adults; $5 children under 18
- Online Tickets: https://teatroparaguasnm.org
- Reservations (purchase tickets at door): 505.424.1601
Performances run 7 p.m. Fridays Dec. 13 and Dec. 20, Saturdays Dec. 14 and Dec. 21 at 2 p.m., Sundays Dec. 15 and Dec. 22. Tickets are $15 for adults, $5 for children under 18, and may be purchased online at https://teatroparaguasnm.org.
Reservations may be made at 505.424.1601 for purchasing tickets at the door. No one is turned away for lack of funds.
This project is made possible in part by the Santa Fe Community Foundation, New Mexico Arts, (a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs) and Santa Fe Arts and Culture.
