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Holiday Shows<\/strong><\/h3>\n- \n
- Tudor Holiday Dinners<\/a>\u00a0with the Philharmonic Chorus of Madison\u00a0take place\u00a0Dec. 4-8 at the Memorial Union. Tickets are $60-$80.<\/li>\n
- “A Christmas Carol<\/a>” runs Dec. 7-22 at the Overture Center. Tickets are $34-$65.<\/li>\n
- The Capitol Christmas Pageant<\/a> takes place Dec. 8 at the State Capitol. Free to attend.<\/li>\n
- A Madison Symphony\u00a0Christmas<\/a>\u00a0runs Dec. 13-15 at the Overture Center. Tickets are $19-$95.<\/li>\n
- Gospel Carols<\/a>\u00a0takes place Dec. 20 at the Alliant Energy Center. Tickets are $20-$50.<\/li>\n
- “The Nutcracker<\/a>” runs Dec. 20-28 at the Overture Center. Tickets are $16-$65.<\/li>\n
- “Guys on Ice<\/a>” runs Dec. 26-Dec. 31 at the Barrymore. Tickets are $32.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Holiday Parties<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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- The\u00a0Magnet Buoys and Bubbles Holiday Party<\/a>\u00a0is held Dec. 5 at the Edgewater. Tickets are $20-$39.99.<\/li>\n
- The annual\u00a0Children’s Holiday Party<\/a>\u00a0is held Dec. 8 at the Fitchburg Community Center. Free to attend.<\/li>\n
- An\u00a0Ugly Sweater Contest<\/a> is held Dec. 10 at HopCat. Free to attend.<\/li>\n
- The\u00a0OPEN Annual Holiday Party<\/a>\u00a0is held Dec. 12 at the Century House. Free to attend.<\/li>\n
- An\u00a0Ugly Sweater Party<\/a>\u00a0is held Dec. 13 at Red Rock Saloon.\u00a0Free to attend.<\/li>\n
- Antlers Tavern’s Holiday Party<\/a> is held Dec. 14. Free to attend.<\/li>\n
- The\u00a0Mad Men Holiday Soiree<\/a>\u00a0is held Dec. 14 at the Majestic. Tickets are $25.<\/li>\n
- The SMB Madison Holiday Networking Extravaganza<\/a>\u00a0is held Dec. 18 at Old Sugar Distillery. Free to attend.<\/li>\n
- The Downtowners’\u00a0Hark! The Holiday Happy Hour<\/a> is held Dec. 19 at the Brink Lounge. Free to attend.<\/li>\n
- An\u00a0Ugly Holiday Sweater Party<\/a>\u00a0is held Dec. 20 at all Nitty Gritty locations.\u00a0Free to attend.<\/li>\n
- The\u00a080s vs. 90s Christmas Sweater Ball<\/a>\u00a0is held Dec. 21 at the Majestic. Tickets are $5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Holiday Races and Bar Crawls<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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- Run, Santa, Run 5K<\/a>\u00a0takes place Dec. 8 on the Capitol Square. Fee is $25-$45.<\/li>\n
- The\u00a0Jingle Bell Run\/Walk for Arthritis<\/a>\u00a0is held Dec. 14 at Verona High School.<\/li>\n
- JJO Santa Crawl<\/a> starts at Whiskey Jacks on Dec. 14. Tickets cost $9.41.<\/li>\n
- The Christmas Bar Crawl<\/a> starts at Red Rock Saloon on Dec. 14. Tickets cost $20.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Other Holiday Events<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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- The\u00a0Holiday Fantasy in Lights<\/a>\u00a0runs Nov. 9-Jan. 1 at Olin Park. Admission is free.<\/li>\n
- Zoo Lights<\/a>\u00a0is held Nov. 29-Dec. 29 (Thursdays-Sundays) at Henry Vilas Zoo. Tickets cost $7-$25.<\/li>\n
- The Verona Road Business Coalition’s Jingle and Mingle<\/a> is held Dec. 7 at various businesses.<\/li>\n
- Holiday Express<\/a>\u00a0runs Dec. 7-31 at Olbrich Gardens. Tickets are $3-$6.<\/li>\n
- Christmas Brew ‘N View with the movies\u00a0“Elf<\/a>,” “Die Hard<\/a>” and “Christmas Vacation<\/a>” showing respectively Dec. 11, 19 and 21 at the Majestic. Tickets are $5.<\/li>\n
- Breakfast with Santa<\/a> takes place on Dec. 15 and 22 at Henry Vilas Zoo. Tickets cost $25-$45.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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We sure like to celebrate the holidays here in town. Following is a guide to some upcoming holiday parties, shows, races and events in Madison, WI. Fortunately, many of the events that were held in November last year are now rightfully back in December this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,47],"tags":[16,22,10,4,55,83,206],"class_list":["post-5794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays-and-events","category-things-to-do","tag-downtown","tag-east-side","tag-fitchburg","tag-middleton","tag-south-side","tag-sun-prairie","tag-verona"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5794"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7983,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions\/7983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Zoo Lights<\/a>\u00a0is held Nov. 29-Dec. 29 (Thursdays-Sundays) at Henry Vilas Zoo. Tickets cost $7-$25.<\/li>\n
- The\u00a0Jingle Bell Run\/Walk for Arthritis<\/a>\u00a0is held Dec. 14 at Verona High School.<\/li>\n
- The annual\u00a0Children’s Holiday Party<\/a>\u00a0is held Dec. 8 at the Fitchburg Community Center. Free to attend.<\/li>\n
- “A Christmas Carol<\/a>” runs Dec. 7-22 at the Overture Center. Tickets are $34-$65.<\/li>\n