yULETIDE
World Premiere
By Jim Fitzmorris
November 15 - December 17, 2006
(performance calendar)
Welcome to the Christmas capitol of Yuletide, a Christmas world unlike any you’ve ever seen before, where Santa's sleigh is actually a clipper ship pulled not by eight reindeer but by eight teams of reindeer; where elves submit their ideas for Christmas gifts to bureaucratic porcupines who run the office of "What’s the Bright Idea;" and where children play hide-and-seek amidst gigantic talking pumpkins. On this, the first day of the Christmas season, as students from each of the eight houses of elves prepare for the annual scholastic achievement competition, Santa sends out a message with the penguin town cryar that shakes the snow off the pine trees: this will be the last year in his reign as Claus the 23rd.
