Win 4 tickets to ‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’
UPDATE: Our winner is Stephen Bohr. Thanks, all, for entering. You provided some great Christmas memories!
ORIGINAL ENTRY: StageWorks Fresno opens a short but intense run on Wednesday of the holiday classic “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.” The company is staging eight performances of the play in just five days.
I used the theme of the show — and the appearance in it of mother-daughter duo Wendy and Emma Denbesten — in my Sunday Spotlight column to muse on the idea of Christmas memories.
Here’s our contest: One lucky Beehive reader will win a voucher good for four tickets at any performance of the show — a $119 value. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post telling us your favorite entertainment holiday memory. Was it an annual trip to “The Nutcracker”? The “Grinch” on TV? Your church Christmas program? Christmas Tree Lane? Caroling in the streets? Staying up all night to watch the marathon of “A Christmas Story” on cable?
Deadline is 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
I’ll pick the winner at random. If you win, I’ll email you a voucher with instructions on how to redeem your four tickets. Please leave a real e-mail address and please check it Tuesday morning around 10 a.m. to see if you’ve won. Duplicate entries are not allowed. You’re ineligible if you’ve won anything from the Beehive in the past 30 days. Full rules on the jump.
Only readers who submit a comment on this post are eligible. The winner will be picked at random. Recipients will be notified by e-mail at the end of each giveaway period. No substitutions or transfer of winners/prizes. Prizes are not redeemable for cash. Some prizes may have due dates for redemption/use. Employees and immediate family of The Fresno Bee, fresnobee.com and any/all of the participating giveaway sponsors, are not eligible to win. By accepting a giveaway, recipient consents to allow the use of his/her name and/or photograph for advertising or similar promotions without further compensation. Winner releases all sponsors of liability regarding use and enjoyment of the prizes. Tax liabilities and insurance, if any, are sole responsibility of the winner. No purchase necessary to win.
Responses to "Win 4 tickets to ‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’"
I love The Rockettes!!
Our tradition, watching National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, never gets old…
Eating pizza and chinese food on Christmas Eve and watching “Jingle all the Way” and “Elf” with my family.
Christmas & it’s celebrated traditions keep changing for me… I guess the best I can say is “church Christmas plays.” I remember being in them as a kid. Early adulthood had me writing my own & putting them on (the best experience ever) & now I’m just trying to find some to see period. They seem to be kind of lacking this year.
Getting up at 5am in the morning and watching A Christmas Story and Jingle All the Way until everyone was awake and I could finally open my presents under the tree with my mom and my sister. I miss being young….
Caroling by hayride in the back of flatbed truck back in high school.
Caroling around the neighborhood is a good one. Also, playing Bingo while waiting until midnight to open up presents. Ahhh, those were the days! Anyway, thanks for giving out tickets!
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I loved Christmas Tree Lane when I was a kid and I love it now with my own kids.
A Charlie Brown Christmas is my fave entertainment, but here’s my unusual/fun holiday tradition – for over 40 years now my cousins and I have exchanged the Lifesaver holiday box…for reasons none of us can remember. They’re hard to find now, but we still manage, even from thousands of miles away.
Watching TBS’ “A Christmas Story” like a million times…and loving every minute of it!
As I was growing up, our wonderful neighbor Jack would come over dressed as Santa. This happened every Christmas Eve with our whole extended family at our house. I and my cousins believed it really was Santa making a special visit just for us! The last year I truly remember Santa visiting I was old enough to know it was Jack, and on that night Santa Jack had had one to many eggnogs before he arrived at our house and was not acting at all Santa like. Remembering Jack and that evening never ceases to put a smile on my face.
There was also an evening in L.A. 25 or more years ago where my husband slept through the Bolshoi Ballet (once in a life time!) performing the Nutcracker! Now every year I ask my husband, how about we see a performance of the nutcracker? And we both start laughing.
Walking down Christmas Tree Lane with family and drinking hot chocolate. Good times.
Trying to watch the entire “A Christmas Story” marathon and reciting every word. EVERY WORD.
Defintely seeing Home Alone 1 or 2 come on TV! Haha!
I loved watching a Charlie brown Christmas with the piano soundtrack….classic!!!
It may not be the oldest tradition but I could watch Elf all 12 days of Christmas! After last weekend though, my new favorite holiday entertainment is zoo lights at the chaffee zoo!!!
I remember watching the movie Life is Wonderful with my family a few years. It still brings back great memories. Merry Christmas everyone!
Every year my family does a cookie exchange but this year we’ve made it an Ugly Sweater Party as well. I can’t wait!
I had wanted to share some cultural outings with my nieces when they were very young, so I bought some tickets for them to see The Nutcracker. They were so excited and they dressed up for the performance, but once they settled in to see the program, in less than 1/2 hour they were asleep in their seats. Their excitement overtook them. It was definitely a moment in my life that I will always remember!
When I was young I always looked forward to my school Christmas show. One year I got sick right off the stage steps before going up to sing Silent Night. I’m sure many people watching that night remember it as one of their memories too. But other than that, I loved doing the annual show.
My favorite Christmas memory was having to wait until Christmas night to open all of the beautiful packages under the tree. One or both of my parents were usually working Christmas day so we always waited until everyone was home. For some the magic of christmas ended that morning with wrapping paper tossed across the living room and the toys already loosing their desirable qualities, but for me that magic lasted the entire day.
Our favorite entertainment holiday memory was watching A Christmas Carol performed at the Gallo Center in Modesto.
Watching the Christmas Carol at the Gallo Center.
Every year on Christmas Eve, my church has a special musical service featuring handbells, choir, orchestra and solo performances. My favorite part is at the end of the service, the whole church gathers in a circle around the church, holding lit candles. They turn off the lights and we all sing Silent Night. It’s a truly beautiful sight and touching moment.
I LOVED watchign the macys parade