JUNE 17-21
Holiday magic that turns skeptics into believers. Experience the pure joy of Christmas in July! Follow Buddy the Elf’s heartwarming journey from the North Pole to New York City as he discovers that the real magic of Christmas lives in the connections we make with each other. Rediscover your sense of wonder, believe in magic a little longer, and leave the theater with lifted spirits and full hearts.
ASL provided, Saturday, July 11th @ 2:00pm.
Get ready for a holly-jolly adventure bursting with holiday cheer! Elf: The Musical brings the beloved Christmas story to life as Buddy the Elf leaves the North Pole for New York City in search of his true family. Along the way, he discovers friendship, love, and the true meaning of Christmas — all while spreading endless cheer in the most hilariously oversized way possible. Filled with catchy songs, laugh-out-loud moments, colorful characters, and festive magic for all ages, this heartwarming musical is the perfect holiday treat for the whole family.
Do you remember what it felt like?
Waking up on Christmas morning already certain — certain that something wonderful had been quietly arranged overnight, that the world had rearranged itself into something more magical than the day before. You didn’t overthink it. Didn’t qualify it. Just believed, completely and without apology, that joy was on its way.
Somewhere along the way, most of us learned to set that feeling aside. Life has a way of asking us to be sensible. To be realistic. To save wonder for the children and get on with things.
Buddy the Elf never got that memo.
Raised at the North Pole by elves who loved him completely, Buddy arrives in New York City with his heart wide open and his capacity for joy absolutely intact. He is, by every measure that the world values, wildly out of place — and he doesn’t care even a little bit. He decorates like no one is watching. He delights in things that the rest of us have learned to walk past. And when the people around him — lost in their full lives and the frenetic energy of the city, having misplaced Christmas somewhere in the hustle — start to remember what they’d set aside, something in the audience awakens too.
That is the gift of being in the theatre for a great production of Elf. Not the slapstick you remember from the movie — though the laughs are real and generous — but something the film can never quite deliver: experiencing the music and lyrics together, in a shared space, filling the room with something the screen can never quite hold.
New to Elf the musical? You already know Buddy — this is the live version, and it’s warmer than you’re expecting. Rated G. Running time approximately [1 hour, 45 minutes including intermission ]
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