Now Playing Onstage in Albuquerque - Week of 12/23/2012

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Blackout Theatre
12/3-12/24/2012
Charles Dickens' world of abrasive ba-humbugging has never been seen quite like this before. Ebenezer Scrooge travels the world of this future, past, and present through the adventures of elaborate memories and puppetry. Performances at the North Fourth Theater.
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IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Albuquerque Little Theatre
11/30-12/24/2012
This is the saga of George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty. His guardian angel descends on Christmas Eve to save him from despair and to remind him--by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born--that his has been, after all, a wonderful life.
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ME AND MY GIRL
African American Performing Arts Center
12/14-12/30/2012
This grand old (1938) musical was revived in London in 1984 and came to New York in 1986. The late Viscount Hareford had a youthful, unfortunate marriage - and kept discreetly out of sight was a son and heir. The Hareford Hall set are despondent when the family solicitor finds the legitimate heir in Lambeth. There is a cockney invasion of the hall - Bill, his girlfriend and his mates, and the Lambeth Walk is danced by all. The revival was nominated for 13 Tony Awards and won three. "A honey. It has humor, music, dancing, charm, wit and a deft expertise and that takes your heart away." - N.Y. Post. "The freshest and funniest musical to hit Broadway in ages." - Newsweek.
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The Truth About Santa (an apocalyptic holiday tale) in Broadway

THE TRUTH ABOUT SANTA (AN APOCALYPTIC HOLIDAY TALE)
Southwest Rural Theatre Project
12/7-12/30/2012
Santa Claus is tired of the lies. Like the gods of old, he, too, has his mortal mistresses. This Christmas Eve he will bring Mary, his favorite earthly consort, and Luke and Freya, their illegitimate, semi-divine children, back to his North Pole compound to live with him--forever! Not surprisingly, Mrs. Claus resists. First she withholds Santa's beloved Divinity. Then she tries to poison Mary and the children with some delicious candy-wine. And as the singing elf-slaves Jo-Jo and Jim-Jim, and Mary's drunkard husband, George, are drawn into the marital melee, all Hell--quite literally--breaks loose.
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DISNEY'S THE LITTLE MERMAID JR
LOS ALAMOS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
12/14-2/23/2013
In a magical kingdom fathoms below, the beautiful young mermaid Ariel longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above. But first,
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MURDER AT CAFE NOIR
Foul Play Cafe
12/7-2/23/2013
Murder at Cafe Noir is a 40's private detective story come to life. Rick Archer, P.I., has been hired to find the runaway Sheila, a "gal who has more curves than the west coast highway". His search leads him to the Cafe Noir, the only club on the forgotten island of Mustique, a place stuck in the black and white 1940's. The cafe's owner has washed up murdered, and the gal he came to find was the last person seen with him alive. Now he must use his hard-boiled detective skills to find the real killer. Was it the French Madame and manager of the club, the voodoo priestess, the shyter British attorney, the black marketeer, or the femme fatale herself?
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