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JANUARY
Monday, Jan. 1
New Year’s Day
Tuesday, Jan. 3
• Man of La Mancha – Multiple award-winning
musical celebrating a man who refused
to give up on his ideals. Riverside Theatre,
Vero Beach, 7:30 p.m. 231.6990
Wednesday, Jan. 4
• Man of La Mancha – Multiple award-winning
musical celebrating a man who refused
to give up on his ideals. Riverside Theatre,
Vero Beach, 2 and 7:30 p.m. 231.6990
Thursday, Jan. 5
• Always…Patsy Cline – Lyric Theatre,
Stuart, 7 p.m. 286.7827
• Man of La Mancha – Multiple award-winning
musical celebrating a man who refused
to give up on his ideals. Riverside Theatre,
Vero Beach, 7:30 p.m. 231.6990
• The Odd Couple – Female version.
Pineapple Playhouse, Fort Pierce, 8 p.m.
465.0366
Union Event Center, Port St. Lucie, 11 a.m.-
7 p.m. 807.4488
• Love, Loss and What I Wore: A Stage Reading
– Vero Beach Theatre Guild. Funny, compelling
play of monologues and ensemble
pieces about women, clothes and memory,
2 and 7:30 p.m. 562.8300
• Yuletides – Hallstrom Planetarium, Indian
River State College, Fort Pierce, 2 and 7 p.m.
Enjoy a live concert under the planetarium’s
stars featuring songs of the holiday season
with the electronic music of Jonn Serrie.
Tickets are $15. 462.7515
• Mars Watch – Hallstrom Planetarium,
Indian River State College, Fort Pierce,
7-9 p.m. See the red planet when Mars is
closest to Earth, about 40 million miles
away. Treasure Coast Astronomical Society
www.treasurecoastastronomy.org will host
guided views of Mars and its features on the
grounds of Hallstrom Planetarium, weather
permitting. These events are free and open
to the public. 462.7515
• A Christmas Carol – Presented by South
Florida Dance Company, Lyric Theatre, Stuart,
1 and 6 p.m. 286.7827
• Queen Tribute Concert – Tradition in Port
St. Lucie, 7-10 p.m. Visit Traditionfl.com/
events/queen-tribute-concert for details.
Sunday, Dec. 18
Hanukkah begins
• Love, Loss and What I Wore: A Stage
Reading – Vero Beach Theatre Guild.
Funny, compelling play of monologues and
ensemble pieces about women, clothes and
memory, 2 p.m. 562.8300
• True Crew Holiday Extravaganza – Sunrise
Theatre, Fort Pierce, 4 p.m. 461.4775
Tuesday, Dec. 20
• Cannoli, Latkes and Guilt – Steve Solomon
is back from ‘My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s
Jewish and I’m in Therapy” to bring you a
new show as funny as the last one. Prepare
to laugh tonight and whenever you think
of his jokes, Lyric Theatre, Stuart, 7 p.m.
286.7827
• Magic of McKee, Festival of Lights – See
thousands of colorful lights and displays,
Santa, local entertainers, holiday treats,
large-model train display and village, 1924
Wurlitzer Band Organ and more, 6-8 p.m.
Visit www.mckeegarden.org for details.
794.0601
Wednesday, Dec. 21
• Magic of McKee, Festival of Lights – See
thousands of colorful lights and displays,
Santa, local entertainers, holiday treats,
large-model train display and village, 1924
Wurlitzer Band Organ and more, 6-8 p.m.
Visit www.mckeegarden.org for details.
794.0601
• The Nutcracker – Presented by Treasure
Coast Ballet, Lyric Theatre, Stuart, 2 and
6 p.m. 286.7827
Thursday, Dec. 22
• Magic of McKee, Festival of Lights – See
thousands of colorful lights and displays,
Santa, local entertainers, holiday treats,
large-model train display and village, 1924
Wurlitzer Band Organ and more, 6-8 p.m.
Visit www.mckeegarden.org for details.
794.0601
• Andrea Del Principe: An Italian Christmas
Night Concert – Sunrise Theatre, Fort Pierce,
7:30 p.m. 461.4775
• The Nutcracker – Presented by Treasure
Coast Ballet, Lyric Theatre, Stuart, 2 and
6 p.m. 286.7827
Friday, Dec. 23
• Magic of McKee, Festival of Lights – See
thousands of colorful lights and displays,
Santa, local entertainers, holiday treats,
large-model train display and village, 1924
Wurlitzer Band Organ and more, 6-8 p.m.
Visit www.mckeegarden.org for details.
• The Nutcracker – Presented by Treasure
Coast Ballet, Lyric Theatre, Stuart, 2 and
6 p.m. 286.7827
Saturday, Dec. 24
Christmas Eve
Sunday, Dec. 25
Christmas
Monday, Dec. 26
Hanukkah ends
Christmas Holiday observed
Wednesday, Dec. 28
• Magic of McKee, Festival of Lights – See
thousands of colorful lights and displays,
Santa, local entertainers, holiday treats,
large-model train display and village, and
more, 6-8 p.m. Visit www.mckeegarden.org
for details. 794.0601
• The State Ballet Theatre of Ukraine: Swan
Lake – Sunrise Theatre, Fort Pierce, 7:30 p.m.
461.4775
Thursday, Dec. 29
• Magic of McKee, Festival of Lights – See
thousands of colorful lights and displays,
Santa, local entertainers, holiday treats,
large-model train display and village, and
more, 6-8 p.m. Visit www.mckeegarden.org
for details. 794.0601
Friday, Dec. 30
• Nutcracker on the Indian River – Ballet Vero
Beach. The ballet moves the action to the
year Vero was founded 1919. By taking the
ballet’s heroine, Marie, on a holiday journey
from New York to Florida, Fifth Avenue
Mansions, Grand Central Station, and rail
cars become settings. Instead of a second act
featuring candy characters, Marie dreams of
the shores of the Indian River Lagoon, and is
entertained by all manner of local flora and
fauna. Vero Beach High School Performing
Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. 905.2651
• Magic of McKee, Festival of Lights – See
thousands of colorful lights and displays,
Santa, local entertainers, holiday treats,
large-model train display and village, and
more, 6-8 p.m. Visit www.mckeegarden.org
for details. 794.0601
• Pure Led Zeppelin 10th Anniversary Tribute
– Witness the music, magic and energy of
one of the greatest rock bands of all time,
7:30 p.m., Lyric Theatre. 286.7827
Saturday, Dec. 31
New Year’s Eve
• ABBAmania – Maltz Jupiter Theatre, 5 and
8 p.m. 561.575.2223
• Nutcracker on the Indian River – Ballet Vero
Beach. The ballet moves the action to the
year Vero was founded 1919. By taking the
ballet’s heroine, Marie, on a holiday journey
from New York to Florida, Fifth Avenue
Mansions, Grand Central Station, and rail
cars become settings. Instead of a second act
featuring candy characters, Marie dreams of
the shores of the Indian River Lagoon, and is
entertained by all manner of local flora and
fauna. Vero Beach High School Performing
Arts Center at 2:30 p.m. 905.2651
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errors, omissions or schedule changes. Please
check with the facility before attending any event.
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of the Christmas story in Luke 2 — but my grandmother put on a performance
of her own.
Sitting in her favorite chair in a corner of the living room, she drew
a rapt audience with her monologue about her earlier Christmases.
One of the stories I best remember is how she and my grandfather one
year raised turkeys at the citrus grove in which they were then living
so they could get enough money together to buy bicycles for my dad,
their oldest, and my Uncle Eddie. Somehow the turkeys escaped from
the barn, putting their Christmas purchases in jeopardy, but luckily
were recaptured over several days.
My grandmother concluded her soliloquy with a testimony of
faith. I didn’t know much about her religious beliefs except that she
was Presbyterian. On many Sundays, she had sacrificed her own
attendance at First Presbyterian Church so she could look after the
youngest children in our family while my mom and dad and the older
kids attended Catholic Mass. Cloaked in a red corduroy dress that last
Christmas Eve, she recited the Apostle’s Creed from memory. “This is
what I believe,’’ she told us.
The next time I saw her in that red corduroy dress was a month later
when she was laid out in Bill Yates’s funeral parlor.
She certainly gave us a Christmas to remember.
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