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Feeling festive? See a holiday show with your family. Tickets are on sale now for annual favorites from the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Oklahoma City Ballet and the Oklahoma Opry, to name a few.
• Lyric Theatre has reimagined an all new A Christmas Carol to open Nov. 24 at the Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave. After three years as an innovative outdoor production at the Harn Homestead, this new A Christmas Carol will feature all-new sets, costumes, lights, sounds and staging, a news release noted. Presented by Devon Energy, the show will run through Dec. 24. For tickets, go to lyrictheatreokc.com or call 405-524-9312.
• The Oklahoma City Philharmonic will kick off the holidays with an all-new extravaganza featuring Grammy Award-winning gospel group Take 6, Oklahoma’s own Sandi Patty and tap-dancing Santas accompanying the orchestra. “A Very Merry Pops” will be at the Civic Center Dec. 1-2, at 8 p.m. both nights and for a 2 p.m. Saturday matinee. This year’s all-new show is part of the Chickasaw Nation Pops Series. It also will draw on audience favorites from past “Very Merry Pops” Christmas shows over the last 30 years. OKCPHIL Music Director Alexander Mickelthwate commissioned a new medley he is calling “Kris Kringle’s Okie Jingle,” a news release noted. For information, go to okcphil.org.
• The Oklahoma City Ballet will bring back its annual holiday tradition when The Nutcracker opens Dec. 8 and runs through Dec. 18 at the Civic Center. Presented by Devon Energy, the show will feature live music from OKCPHIL and Canterbury Voices in addition to the ballet dancers. More than 100 students from the OKC Ballet’s Yvonne Chouteau School will accompany the professional dancers. A sensory-friendly performance will be on Dec. 18 in partnership with AutismOklahoma, and the annual Nutcracker Tea fundraiser will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Dec. 16 in the Civic Center’s Meinders Hall of Mirrors. Artistic Director Ryan Jolicoeur-Nye has continued the fresh updates added to the show last year, a news release noted. For information, go to okcballet.org.
• The Oklahoma Opry is hosting its Christmas Show at 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dec. 2 at the ACM@UCO Live Room, 25 S. Oklahoma Ave., in Oklahoma City’s Bricktown. The show will feature Owen and Kelcie Pickard, Tammy Brasier, Clancy Davis, Angela Brooks, Kyle and Amanda Earhart, Steven Jeffrey, The Scarberry Family, Dustin Jones, Haylie Bagwell, Scott McLaughlin and the Oklahoma Opry Band & Horn Section. For information and tickets, go to ohfo.org.
The Civic Center has additional holiday shows coming up. Innovation Arts & Entertainment (Innovation AE) is bringing “Elf in Concert” to Oklahoma City at 7 p.m. Friday and the Cirque Dreams Holidaze show Nov. 26 and 28. Murray and Peter Present are bringing a “Drag Queen Christmas” show to the Hudiburg Center in Midwest City on Dec. 1. For information, go to okcciviccenter.com.
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