Center. Other highlights include Irving Berlin’s White Christmas at the Woodlawn and Las Nuevas Tamaleras at the Guadalupe Theater, both starting on Thanksgiving weekend, plus Fiddler on the Roof at The Playhouse San Antonio debuting Dec. 5 followed the next day by the opening of The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical at the Cameo. Check the events calendar in this magazine for more information on these and many other shows, including those in neighboring towns. It would be an understatement to say that Tchaikovsky’s beloved The Nutcracker is a very popular event this time of year. Ballet San Antonio, in conjunction with the San Antonio Symphony and the Tobin Center, presents 11 performances of the ballet over the course of two weekends starting on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker offers three performances the same weekend on Saturday and Sunday at the Majestic. Arts San Antonio presents its Nutcracker with Mejia International Ballet joining forces with San Antonio Metropolitan Ballet at the Lila Cockrell Dec. 19-21, while Alamo City Dance Company dances its adaptation of this classic on Saturday and Sunday of that weekend at McAllister Auditorium. Up the road to
the north, Ballet New Braunfels has three performances scheduled Dec. 12-13 at the Brauntex Performing Arts Theatre. In all, you have 24 chances to be a face in a Nutcracker crowd. The music category is jam-packed in the last two months of the year. San Antonio Symphony leads the way with three classical concerts: Tchaikovsky 4 (Kirill Gerstien, piano; Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor), Grieg Concerto (Jon Kimura Parker, piano; Lang-Lessing, conductor) and West Side Story (Julie Albers, cello; Teddy Abrams, conductor), in addition to the annual Holiday Pops with Akiko Fujimoto conducting. Symphony musicians also will accompany Jackie Evancho at the Tobin in early November. On the subject of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, their musical lineup in November and December shines with the likes of Don Williams, Lyle Lovett, Blind Boys of Alabama with Mavis Staples, Little River Band, Robert Earl Keen, and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Other big-time music artists who are performing in the
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