Playing now till January 6, 2013 so that you Scrooge-like characters can learn the lessons even after Christmas.

The Gaslight Theater,
www.gaslighttheatre.com
7010 E. Broadway
520-886-9428

Celebrate the Holiday Season Gaslight-style with our enchanting adaptation of Dickens’ heart-lifting classic tale of magical spirits in a colorful and humorous 1950’s Christmas. Join them as they open the eyes of the crotchety Ebenezer Scrooge to the true meaning and joy of Christmas!

Go online to check for the schedule of shows (usually 12 noon, 3, 6, 8 p.m. but different for the weekends). Tickets prices includes tax:
$19.58 Regular adults
$17.40 Seniors (age 60 plus), military, students
$8.67 Children (12 & under)

Don’t we all know some rich Scrooges, who could benefit from this play? But they would be too cheap to pay for tickets. Merry Christmas anyway.

It’s supposed to be a special time for Christians (Catholic and Protestant) to celebrate and rejoice in the birth of Jesus Christ. But it can be so much more, in spreading the message of love, faith, & hope throughout your community and the world.

Last night at the Christmas Eve Mass at St. Augustine Cathedral, Bishop Gerald Kicanas preached that “we are all precious children of God”. He also said we need to “create a world of peace.”

Many non-Christians (like my birth family of Jodo-shu Buddhists in Hawaii) celebrated Christmas as a family tradition and secular holiday from school/work. I’m sure that can be said of other religious families & communities as well.

Now to be politically correct, American communities may also celebrate the 8 days of Hanukkah (Jewish Americans), Kwanzaa (Black Americans) from Dec. 26 to January 1, sometimes Bodhi Day (December 8 for Buddhists commemorating the birthday of Lord Buddha), and even Diwali (Hindu Festival of Lights) till mid-December.

However you celebrate these holidays, even if its just to get together & exchange gifts and fellowship, please reflect upon what faith means to you spiritually, and to spread love (and the “aloha spirit”) to your family, friends & neighbors.

And Merry Christmas to all today. Mele Kalikimaka in Hawaiian (click here for last year’s blog on the 12 days of Christmas – Hawaiian style).

Just in time for Christmas!

Friday Dec. 23, two showings 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W.Congress St.

USA, 1946, 130 min.
Directed by Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore

An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.

KIDS 12 AND UNDER ARE FREE.

phone: (520) 624-1515
fax: (520) 624-5855
email: foxinfo@foxtucsontheatre.org

Merry Christmas to all, as we reflect upon the message in this heart-warming movie.