Podcast: The Thanksgiving 2025 episode

A look at upcoming holiday shows, the latest news plus an interview with the creative team behind Moonlight Elves.

In this episode of the OnStage Colorado Podcast, Alex and Toni celebrate Thanksgiving week with a packed episode featuring reviews of Million Dollar Quartet Christmas, Camp Christmas 2025, Batman Live, Mary Poppins at Colorado Springs FAC, and the disappointing Wicked: For Good.

They discuss major news including Hamilton’s licensing availability for community theaters, Candlelight’s 2026 season announcement, Frozen breaking box office records at Arvada Center, and capital campaign milestones for Arts Hub Lafayette and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance.

The hosts share their top holiday theater picks across Colorado, then Alex interviews Meghan Frank (Theater Artibus) and Amber Blais (Starry Night Productions) about their circus cabaret collaboration Moonlight Elves, a playful show pitting North Pole elves against South Pole elves at the Denver Savoy featuring 20+ Colorado performers. Plus, they preview next week’s conversation about Unleashed Theatre’s Christmas Movie, The Play, The Beginning – described as “Hallmark meets 80s slasher.”

Also discussed in the episode are the Top 10 Colorado Headliners — upcoming holiday shows to keep an eye out for:

• A Christmas Carol, DCPA Theatre Company, Denver, Nov. 21-Dec. 28
• Moonlight Elves, Theatre Artibus, Denver, Nov. 26-Dec. 7
• The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of “A Christmas Carol,” Aurora Fox Arts Center, Nov. 28-Dec. 21
• Drunk Christmas, Auadicous Immersive, Denver metro, Nov. 28-Dec. 21
• Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Butte Theater, Cripple Creek, Nov. 28-Dec. 28
• What the Dickens!?, What If Theatre, Lakewood, Nov. 28-Dec. 27
• Stocking Stuffers, Miners Alley, Golden, Nov. 28-Dec. 28
• >MAP also doing It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play concurrently through Dec. 28
• Let Nothing You Dismay, Firehouse Theater, Denver, through Dec. 21
• Murder for Two: Holiday Edition, Theatre SilCo, Silverthorne, Dec. 5-21