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We've hit peak holiday season, with just a few more days to go until Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. So we've made a list, and checked it twice, with the following deemed suitable for all, whether you're naughty or nice. Partake in our mix of holiday-themed stage shows, music concerts, and outdoor pop-up parties and markets. Consider this your last call for all things 2024. This time next week, we'll guide you to ideas for ringing in 2025.
MADELINE'S CHRISTMAS -- Creative Cauldron presents a staged entertainment that also offers a transporting escape, suitable for all ages, to a romanticized depiction of Paris. That, in essence, is the appeal of Madeline's Christmas, the holiday musical that, over the past decade, has become a recurring seasonal hit for the Northern Virginia company. Based on the classic illustrated book Madeline, the focus is on a precocious Parisian girl and her teacher Miss Clavel at an all-girls boarding school. Adapted for the stage by Jennifer Kirkeby and Shirley Mier, the holiday-themed adventure finds everyone at the boarding school sick in bed on Christmas Eve and unable to go home for the holiday. But Madeline saves the day by taking her friends on "a Christmas journey they will never forget" with the help of a "magical rug merchant." As Miss Clavel, Shaina Kuhn is one of several adult actors in a cast featuring 21 children, elementary- and middle-school-aged students, all part of Creative Cauldron's Musical Theater Ensemble educational program. To Dec. 22. Creative Cauldron, 410 South Maple Ave., Falls Church. Tickets are $20 to $30, or $75 for a Family 4-Pack. Call 703-436-9948 or visit www.creativecauldron.org.