Arts & Entertainment
Christmas Holiday Guide to McLean's Performing, Visual Arts
Here's Your December Entertainment Calendar
This holiday season, McLean is filled with a multitude of artistic activities for everyone. From visual arts to music and drama, there is a veritable panoply of fun-filled choices.
McLean Project for the Arts (MPA)
1234 Ingleside Avenue
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Today – January 7, 2012
Currently on display at the MPA are three shows. The Emerson Gallery features the work of multimedia installation artist Robert Bocci. Elizabeth Whately’s two and three-dimensional drawings, using silver and gold wire, are hung in the Atrium Gallery. The Ramp Gallery has on display works of the McLean Art Society.
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McLean Orchestra-Christmas Around the World
Oakcrest School, 850 Balls Hill Road
Saturday, December 3, 2011, 8 PM, Sunday, December 4, 2011, 3 PM
Ticket Pricing and Information: http://mclean-orchestra.org/tickets
The orchestra will perform holiday favorites, highlights from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker and Handel’s Messiah and more!
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem
Alden Theatre, 1234 Ingleside Avenue
Saturday, December 10, 2011, 8 PM
Ticket Pricing and Information: http://www.mcleancenter.org/alden/guestartist.asp
The quartet performs music combining influences of folk, blues, swing, Cajun and traditional pop.
McLean Youth Orchestra (MYO)
Oakcrest School, 850 Balls Hill Road
Sunday, December 11, 2011, 3 PM
The MYO will hold a free concert featuring holiday favorites.
McLean Symphony
HOLIDAY MAGIC!
Alden Theatre, 1234 Ingleside Avenue
Sunday, December 11, 2011, 3 PM
Ticket Pricing and Information: http://www.mcleancenter.org/alden/communityarts.asp
The symphony will perform selections from Martinu and Elgar, as well as traditional holiday favorites and a sing-along. Guest Emcee, meteorologist Bob Ryan, will share personal anecdotes about the past 40 years of the Symphony and Maestro Dingwall Fleary.
Alden’s Studio Rep
The Most Amazing Christmas Play Series in the Entire History of the World
Alden Theatre
1234 Ingleside Avenue
Friday and Saturday, December 16 and 17, 2011, 8 PM
Ticket Pricing and Information: http://www.mcleancenter.org/alden/guestartist.asp
The Alden's Studio Rep, a group of talented McLean teens, performs a series of short comedic plays with a holiday twist.
1st Stage
Parfumerie
1524 Spring Hill Road
December 16, 2011 - January 8, 2012
Fridays, 8 PM
Saturdays, 2 PM and 8 PM
Sundays, 2 PM and 7 PM
Miklós László’s romantic comedy that inspired You’ve Got Mail and the musical, She Loves Me, is directed by Leslie Kobylinski. “Amidst the Christmas bustle, two Budapest shop clerks bicker by day, oblivious to the fact that they've fallen in love exchanging anonymous love letters. But not everyone in the shop finds the season so enjoyable.”
Yosi and the Superdads
Rockin’ Hannukah Concert
Alden Theatre
1234 Ingleside Avenue
Sunday, December 18, 2011, 3 PM
Ticket Pricing and Information: http://www.mcleancenter.org/alden/guestartist.asp
A family-fun, interactive concert featuring klezmer, rock and ska Hanukkah songs.
