{"id":374456,"date":"2026-10-16T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374456\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T03:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:01:00","slug":"neil-patrick-harris-megan-hilty-allen-rene-louis-will-be-part-of-advent-carolndar-at-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374456\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Patrick Harris, Megan Hilty, Allen Ren\u00e9 Louis Will Be Part of Advent Carolndar at Town Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Advent Carolndar, the holiday spectacular created by Joel Waggoner (School of Rock) and Tony nominee Julia Mattison<\/a> (Death Becomes Her<\/a>), will return to the New York stage with a one-night-only performance December 14 at 8 PM at The Town Hall.<\/p>\n

Directed by Tim Drucker (The Unauthorized Hallmark(ish) Parody Musical), this year\u2019s celebration will feature appearances by Tony and Emmy winner Neil Patrick Harris<\/a>\u00a0(Damn Yankees<\/a>,\u00a0Hedwig and the Angry Inch<\/a>, Art<\/a>), Tony nominee Megan Hilty<\/a> (Death Becomes Her, 9 to\u00a05), and\u00a0Grammy nominee Allen Ren\u00e9 Louis<\/a> (The Wiz<\/a>), with additional guests to be announced.<\/p>\n

Born from Waggoner and Mattison\u2019s digital holiday tradition,\u00a0Advent Carolndar\u00a0began when the Broadway veterans challenged themselves to write and release a brand-new holiday song every day for the 25 days leading up to Christmas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to return to New York with our biggest, jolliest, most dingle-bongliest Advent Carolndar yet,\u201d said Waggoner and Mattison in a joint statement. \u201cWe\u2019ve been writing holiday songs for a number of years, which means we have approximately 9,000 Christmas songs and absolutely no idea what to do with them except put them in a show! We\u2019re bringing the hits, the deep cuts, the clams, the Christmas witch, and several things that we legally cannot call Christmas miracles. It\u2019s going to be merry, bright, and deeply stupid. Come celebrate the season with us!\u201d<\/p>\n

The upcoming evening will also have\u00a0production design by Nate Bertone<\/a>, lighting design by Colleen Doherty<\/a>, sound design by Connor Wang<\/a>, associate direction by Joyah Spangler, production management by Juniper Street Productions<\/a>, and general management by ShowTown Theatricals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No Guarantees Productions<\/a> is producing.<\/p>\n

Single tickets beginning at $55 are on sale by visiting Ticketmaster.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advent Carolndar, the holiday spectacular created by Joel Waggoner (School of Rock) and Tony nominee Julia Mattison (Death…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-374456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}