14th Annual A Musical Piñata for Christmas

About this event

Teatro Paraguas is pleased to present its 14th annual community celebration A Musical Piñata for Christmas. The Teatro Paraguas Orchestra, accompanied by strolling singers, will play tra-ditional New Mexican and Mexican carols, as well as original festive music.

Compania Chuscales y Mina Fajardo provide mesmerizing flamenco music and dance, and

Ballet Folclórico Xochitl, led by Xochitl Ehrl, take the stage with joyous dances from Mexico.

Winter holiday poetry read by actors and a few skits, including one by the Teatro Paraguas Teen Ensemble, pepper this family-friendly program.. A few characters from the Fiesta Melo-drama might appear onstage, and there will be plenty of biscochitos and hot chocolate for every-one. And of course, Santa Clos will appear to help all the kids in the audience bring down the Piñata at the end of the show.

Anchoring the performance is a short play by JoJo Sena Tarnoff and friends entitled

The Curandera's Apprentice. In this free-wheeling Spanglish one-act, Donna Valentina, the village curandera, is called to help extricate Señor Martinez's goat which is stuck half-frozen

under the acequia bridge. She leaves her apprentice Maria to sweep and clean the workshop. Enter El Diablo and his Scruffy Cat, who, along with La Bruja, whisper dark but tantalizing ideas into her head. Soon chaos ensues, and everyone ends up wet and shivering but joyous at la Misa de Gallo.

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