Community Annual Christmas Show 

WHEN: December 13  - 22, 2024 | Friday at 7:00 pm; Saturday & Sunday at 2:00 pm

COST: Adults $15 Child $5

>> Purchase tickets online or call 505-424-1601 for reservations (pay at door) <<

ABOUT THE SHOW

Teatro Paraguas is pleased to 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.

This project is made possible in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, Santa Fe Arts and Culture and the 1% Lodger’s Tax, Santa Fe Community Foundation, and the National Latinx Theater Initiative.