I had the incredible good fortune of attending this year's Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert last night. Honestly during the Christmas season there is little to rival this concert when it comes to how much I feel the magic of Christmas. The entire production is so well done, entertaining, moving, and joyful.
This year's special guests were the Sesame Street Muppets and Santino Fontana. Santino Fontana is a Broadway singer that recently won the 2013 Tony Award for best Male Performance in a Musical.(He was also the voice of Prince Hans in Frozen). He's very talented energetic and sweet. The Sesame Street Muppets in attendance were Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster, Elmo, Grover, Abby, Rosita and The Count. They were so much fun as they participated in the musical numbers, caused havoc back stage and taught the lesson that Christmas is about what is in our heart and how we share it with others.
It was a fun whimsical night with beautiful music, dancing, special effects and the spirit of Christmas in abundance. Some highlights of the night include: Mac Wilberg allowing Big Bird to lead the choir and orchestra which was quite a sight to see. Cookie Monster's tireless search for cookies even interrupting the night to beg people to look in their purses for even a crumb of a cookie. Santino ended up singing the "C is for Cookie" song with him and trying to help Cookie Monster think of other things that started with C..."C is for Christmas", "C is for concert", "C is for choir" etc.
Shown here:
Don't worry he got his cookies eventually!
Here, Santino, Ernie, Bert, Big Bird, and the children's choir are singing "Sing, Sing a Song"
Perhaps the favorite of the night was the 12 Day's of Christmas, of course counted out by the count and accompanied by Richard Elliot on the big Organ. It was simply amazing!
It was a fun and inspiring night. There were moments of laughter/joy/excitement and moments of being emotionally moved. The magic of Christmas is real for all ages. Merry Christmas!
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What a beautiful portrait of Thanksgiving. It was a wonderful day! Glad you were there. I'm so happy you enjoyed the Christmas Concert...it looks very colorful and magical indeed. The Count and Cookie Monster were always my favorites, so I'm sure I would have loved them, and, well, the others, too. Thanks for sharing.
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