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'Twas the Night Before Christmas, 1776 | Theatre Series

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

WICA, in collaboration with Wellington Day School Foundation,
offers a completely local, all ages show for the entire community!

Come enjoy a new heartwarming Holiday Musical. Explore the possible origins of America’s beloved poem, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’. Enter exciting times as George Washington prepares to cross the Delaware River and Kindness becomes a real treasure. Clement C. Moore’s famous poem (published 1823) gave America its own special Santa Claus who put gifts into “stockings hung by the chimney with care."   

This production is written by Elizabeth Itaya, music by Joseph Itaya. Directed by Robert Hall, Musical Direction by Talia Marcus and featuring a local all-ages cast showcasing the students of Wellington Day School.

December 8 | 7:30 PM
December 9 | 7:30 PM
December 10 | 7:30 PM
December 11 | 2:00 PM
December 16 | 7:30 PM
December 17 | 7:30 PM
December 18 | 2:00 PM

Evening shows:
WICA Star Ticket: $45
Standard Ticket: $30
20 for $20 Ticket: $20

Matinee shows:
WICA Star Ticket: $35
Standard Ticket: $25
20 for $20 Ticket: $20

Thursday shows are
”Pay What You Will”
at the box office

Earlier Event: November 19
Seagull | National Theatre Live Screening
Later Event: December 9
Lasher Gallery Art Opening: Rosie Brouse

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.