Written and Directed by Reed Martin & Austin Tichenor
“Critic’s Choice! They tell me vaudeville died some time ago, but you wouldn’t know it from watching the RSC. The knockabout, anything-for-a-laugh spirit of the ancient genre is alive and well in “The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged).” These three agile and quick witted guys… there’s no denying their ingenuity when it comes to grabbing comedy out of thin air.” Boston Globe
“Brought down the house with gales of laughter.” Theatre Mirror
The fruitcakes of the Reduced Shakespeare Company take you on an irreverent yet heartwarming trip through the holidays in The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged). It’s festive funny physical family fun as these Three Wise Guys send-up and celebrate your favorite winter holiday traditions. Let the RSC rekindle the joy, inner-child and familial dysfunction inside us all!
- LEARN! How Santa saved Christmas!
- SING! The Ultimate Reduced Christmas Carol!
- CELEBRATE! Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Saturnalia!
- CRINGE! At the origin of the term “Nutcracker!”
- MEMORIZE! New lyrics to “The 12 Days of Christmas” with iPads, not Lords A Leaping!
- GASP! At the shocking history of our best-loved Christmas traditions!
“Side-splitting!” Nashua Telegraph
“The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged)” will make your spirits bright, whether you joyfully embrace the upcoming season or get dragged into it kicking and screaming.” Broadway World
“Nothing less than hysterical” Zingology
“Side-splitting fun” and “A night of belly-aching laughter” New England Theatre Geek
