Peanuts for Christmas
On December 8, the Cape Fear Community College Drama Club presents A Charlie Brown Christmas at 3 and 5 p.m. The play, based on the original 1965 Christmas cartoon, will be performed by live actors, and feature musicians performing the original Vince Guaraldi jazz score. Tickets ($5; $4/students; $1/children) will be sold at the door thirty minutes prior to show time. Attendees can receive one dollar off admission with the donation of a nonperishable item for Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard food bank. All proceeds from the play will benefit the National Brain Tumor Society. Cash only, please. Union Station Auditorium, intersection of Front Street and Red Cross Street, downtown Wilmington. Information: (910) 362-7783.
A Classic Choice
The Wilmington Symphony Orchestra and UNCW Opera Outreach Program present a fully staged performance of Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors on Saturday, December 7, 8 p.m., and Sunday, December 8, 4 p.m. First performed on December 24, 1951, at New York City’s Rockefeller Center by the NBC Opera Theatre, Menotti’s one-act opera was broadcast live on television as the debut production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. An estimated five million people watched — the largest audience ever to see a televised opera. Tickets: $27; $6/students. Kenan Auditorium, UNCW, 601 South College Road, Wilmington. Box Office: (910) 9623500. Info: www.wilmingtonsymphony.org.
Don’t Miss Tea Time
Holiday Tea at the Bellamy happens Monday, December 16, 2 p.m. You’re all invited. Sandwiches, scones, desserts and confections will be served, and you can sip tea in the parlors of this stately antebellum mansion. Prepare yourself for the refinement and charm. Tickets: $35. Bellamy Mansion Museum, 503 Market Street, Wilmington. Tea ticket hotline: (910) 232-0127. Or, for more information: www.bellamymansion.org.
Three, Two, One . . . Celebrate New Year’s Eve at Thalian Hall with a festive evening featuring a live Broadway theater production by City Stage, plus a DJ, dinner and dancing, and a champagne toast to bring in 2014. Festivities commence at 7 p.m. Tickets: $125. Proceeds benefit Thalian Hall, located at 310 Chestnut Street, Wilmington. Box Office: (910) 632-2285. Info: www. thalianhall.org.
The Art & Soul of Wilmington
Dear Santa
If your little Ralphie Parkers have been good, consider bringing them to Greenfield Lake Park on Thursday, December 5, 6 p.m., for a tree lighting and a visit from Santa. After that, don’t miss the screening of A Christmas Story, the 1983 classic that never gets old. Free admission; concessions available for purchase. Greenfield Lake Park, 1941 Amphitheater Drive, Wilmington. For more information, visit www.wilmingtonnc.gov/greenfieldtree.
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