Performing Arts Fort Worth ushers in the holiday season with several winter-wonderland shows and events:
RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER: THE MUSICAL
- Tuesday, Nov. 22-Wednesday, Nov. 23
- Bass Performance Hall
- Performances are at 1:30 & 7:30pm both days
- Tickets: $27.50-$49.50
- Rudolph soars back onto the Bass Hall stage in a brand-new production of this live-action musical, which is based on the timeless stop-motion TV show. New to the show this year will be enhanced flying elements and set and scenic designs. Now on a national tour, the show has been called a “holiday staple” by The Boston Globe and an “utterly charming, top-notch production” by Orlando Sentinel.
JIM BRICKMAN: COMFORT & JOY
- Wednesday, Nov. 30
- Bass Performance Hall
- 7:30pm
- Tickets: $44-$82.50
- Piano sensation Jim Brickman brings you the songs, sounds and stories of the season with Comfort & Joy, the 2016 holiday tour. Brickman combines yuletide memories with new music, holiday classics and modern favorites. Brickman’s special guests include 2008 American Idol winner Kris Allen, singer Anne Cochran, Broadway vocalist John Trones and electric violinist Tracy Silverman.
CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE
- Saturday, Dec. 3-Sunday, Dec. 4
- Bass Performance Hall
- 7:30pm Saturday, Dec. 3; 1:30 & 6:30pm Sunday, Dec. 4
- Tickets start at $44
- Cirque Dreams lights up the 2016 holiday season with its critically acclaimed holiday stage extravaganza, Cirque Dreams Holidaze. It’s a new cirque show, Broadway musical and family Christmas spectacular all in one! The New York Daily News calls it a “delicious confection of charm, sparkle and talent by the sleighload!” Be amazed by this holiday spectacle with over 300 costumes, 20 acts and 30 artists from every corner of the globe.
BRUCE ROBISON & KELLY WILLIS
- Sunday, Dec. 4
- McDavid Studio, 330 E. 4th St.
- 7:30pm
- Tickets: $38.50
- Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis return to McDavid Studio to celebrate the holidays, like only they can. The Texas twosome will perform sawdusty favorites from their recent duet records, Our Year and Cheater’s Game, songs from their own extensive solo catalogs and, of course, holiday favorites, old and new. Spend the holidays with Texas’ finest country couple..
HOLIDAYS WITH THE ONE O’CLOCK
- Friday, Dec. 9
- McDavid Studio, 330 E. 4th St.
- 7:30pm
- Tickets: $33
- The University of North Texas’ acclaimed One O’Clock Lab Band returns to the fireplace-cozy confines of McDavid Studio to deliver a jazzy, big band holiday show. Along with their reinterpretations of Christmas standards, the One O’Clock will delve into works from the Kenton Christmas Stan Kenton book, selections from Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite and Maynard Ferguson’s A Christmas for Moderns.
MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY’S COWBOY CHRISTMAS
- Monday, December 19
- Bass Performance Hall
- 7:30pm
- Tickets: $38.50-$82.50
- “Triple M” brings back his annual “Cowboy Christmas” show – a Bass Performance Hall tradition. Under western-themed set pieces, Murphey mixes cowboy songs, poetry and stories for a truly unique performance that is as heartfelt as it is heartwarming.
MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS BY CHIP DAVIS
- Thursday, December 29
- Bass Performance Hall
- 7:30pm
- Tickets start at $50
- Mannheim Steamroller Christmas by Chip Davis has been America’s favorite holiday tradition for over 30 years! Grammy Award-winner Chip Davis has created a show that features Mannheim Steamroller Christmas classics along with a selection of compositions from his groundbreaking Fresh Aire series, which introduced the distinctive Mannheim sound to all of America.
ROBERT EARL KEEN
- Friday, December 30
- Bass Performance Hall
- 7:30pm
- Tickets start at $55
- Beloved Texas singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen polishes off the year with his annual eve-of-New-Year’s-Eve show, “Merry Christmas from the Fam-O-Lee.” This year, Keen is bringing along special guest Junior Brown, a Grammy nominee who delivers a blazing-hot combo of country, rockabilly and bluegrass.
To charge tickets by phone, call 817-212-4280 in Fort Worth; 1-877-212-4280 (toll free) outside Fort Worth; or order online at www.basshall.com. Tickets are also available at the Bass Performance Hall ticket office at 525 Commerce Street. For group sales, call 817-212-4248.
