Tag Archives: Christmas musicals

Yippee-ki-yay, you’ll get a kick out of Die Harsh: The Christmas Musical, a review

Posted on December 12, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Christmas show is the natural home of the flashback, ’tis true. (I give you Scrooge’s night course in how to not be a relentless jerk). But it’s a special kind of Christmas show that opens … Continue reading →

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Rockin’ around the Christmas tree: the dark hilarity of Krampus: A New Musical, a Fringe review

Posted on August 24, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

Krampus: A New Musical (Stage 13, La Cité francophone) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There is something quintessentially Fringe about the midsummer madness of watching a packed house watching a macabre new Christmas musical comedy. At noon. In August. It’s a … Continue reading →

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Capturing a complicated holiday: a new Canadian musical by Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman, with songs by Hawksley Workman

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s the first snow of the year/ Guess it happens once a year….” from Almost A Full Moon, Hawksley Workman “Christmas is a complicated holiday,” says playwright Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman, pausing to consider the multiple facets of … Continue reading →

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