第十一屆波士頓市長的聖誕年節半價票11/10起開售

藝術波士頓（ArtsBoston）和波士頓市長馬丁華殊（Martin Walsh），波士頓市府，以及大波士頓會議遊客局合作，為期八週的“2014市長的假日“，昨（十一月十）日起為民眾提供130多場表演活動的半價優待券。

查詢半價票及表演項目詳情，可上網 MayorsHoliday.com ，或到柯普利廣場（Copley Square），芬紐廳市場（Faneuil Hall Marketplace）的票亭（BosTix） 。

波士頓市在前任市長萬寧路（Thomas M. Menino）支持下，十年前開始這“市長的假日”傳統，今年更把廣受民眾喜愛的波士頓芭蕾舞團“胡桃鉗子（The Nutcracker），流行交響樂團的假日聖誕狂歡演奏，韓德爾海頓協會慶祝二百週年的”韓德爾的彌賽亞“，花旗表演藝術中心的爾灣柏林”白聖誕音樂劇“，藍人集團，廣受歡迎的百老匯劇”豐年祭之旅“等等，都以半價帶到民眾面前。

            波士頓市表示，把波士頓內在假日期間最受歡迎的十個藝術演出場地的營業額加起來，一年可以創造八百八十萬元以上的收入，那真正意味著為地方居民創造了工作機會及收入。波士頓市長馬丁華殊表示，何況誰不想在假日，節慶期間，有點浪漫感覺。

            藝術波士頓表示，2014年的“市長的假日”還包括三十多家地方上的餐館提供優待價，例如P.F. Chang’s，天滿647，熔鍋（Melting Pot）等。

            “市長的假日（mayorsholiday.com）”也是2015年第一夜入場鈕扣的獨家網上零售站，一枚十元。

        “市長的假日”活動支持者包括麻州互惠人壽保險公司，麻州文化協會，波士頓環球報，波士頓達康，魔術106.7FM電台，波士頓中央，芬紐廳市場等機構。

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            “市長的假日”海報。（圖由藝術波士頓提供）

MAYOR’S HOLIDAY -- LAUNCHING NOVEMBER 10, 2014 Thousands of Half-Priced Tickets to Over 130 Beloved Holiday Performances throughout Greater Boston Including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy, and Kids/Family Shows
Featuring THE NUTCRACKER, HOLIDAY POPS, BLUE MAN GROUP, WHITE CHRISTMAS THE MUSICAL, A CHRISTMAS CELTIC SOJOURN, THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL,
THE CHRISTMAS REVELS, and Dozens More!
[Boston, MA -- November 10, 2014] ArtsBoston, in partnership with Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the City of Boston, and the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau, announce the eleventh annual Mayor’s Holiday, an eight-week celebration of the area’s performing arts featuring thousands of half-priced tickets to over 130 holiday shows throughout Boston and beyond. Tickets for Mayor’s Holiday 2014 go on sale November 10, 2014, at MayorsHoliday.com and at both BosTix booth locations at Copley Square and Faneuil Hall Marketplace.

Mayor Martin J. Walsh BosTix Booth/Copley Square
Continuing the decade-plus holiday tradition originally supported by former Mayor Thomas M. Menino, this year’s Mayor’s Holiday features favorites including Boston Ballet’s The Nutcracker, Holiday Pops, The Christmas Revels , Handel’s Messiah as part of Handel and Haydn Society’s bicentennial season, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas The Musical presented by Citi Performing Arts Center, Blue Man Group, A Christmas Celtic Sojourn with Brian O'Donovan, the Broadway hit The Trip to Bountiful (featuring Tony

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Award winner Cicely Tyson, Vanessa Williams, and Blair Underwood), New Repertory Theatre’s The Little Prince, José Mateo Ballet Theatre’s The Nutcracker, Anthony William’s Urban Nutcracker, Back Bay Ringers, and more. See below for the full list of Mayor’s Holiday performances.
“We know the arts factor into what makes Boston such a special place throughout the year, and this is especially true during the holiday season,” says ArtsBoston Executive Director Catherine Peterson. “Where else can you experience
Mayor’s Holiday makes it easy and affordable for friends and family to spend time together they’ll cherish all season long.”
“The City of Boston is proud of our fruitful partnership with ArtsBoston and the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau, offering so much cultural access to our community,” says Mayor Martin J. Walsh. “Add up just the top 10 arts venues in the Boston area during the holidays, and they generate over $8.8 million annually beyond the cost of admission on restaurant dining, overnight accommodations, transportation, and parking. That’s real money translating into local jobs and sustainable income for our residents. Plus who doesn’t love to feel a little more magic, like the kind you can only get from a live performance, during the holiday season? ”
“Mayor’s Holiday reinforces our region as a ‘must do’ destination for tourists and visitors during the holidays,” says Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau President Pat Moscaritolo. “Taking time to enjoy the amazing array of local, live arts offerings, restaurants, and hotels allows you to share an experience that is totally unique to our region.”

Additional Mayor’s Holiday Offerings
Mayor’s Holiday 2014 also includes special offers to over thirty area restaurants, including P.F. Chang’s, Tremont 647, Brasserie Jo, Flora, and the Melting Pot. Further, Mayor’s Holiday is again the exclusive online retailer for First Night Boston 2015 admission buttons (only $10), available at mayorsholiday.com, as well as at both BosTix booths in Faneuil Hall Marketplace and Copley Square.
Additional Support for Mayor’s Holiday 2014
Mayor’s Holiday 2014 is supported in part by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual), Massachusetts Cultural Council, The Boston Globe, Boston.com, Magic 106.7 FM, Boston Central, and Faneuil Hall Marketplace.

About ArtsBoston
ArtsBoston is a champion for Greater Boston’s arts and cultural institutions and a collaborative partner for public, private, and nonprofit leaders who seek to engage more deeply with the region’s arts and cultural sector. It gathers, analyzes, and disseminates data that provides a window into the significance of arts and cultural organizations to the region. It also helps those organizations build their audiences and work more productively and effectively. In the nearly 40 years since its founding, it has become a more powerful voice for the sector and a positive force for the region. It remains committed to its original mission: to enrich the lives of citizenry by connecting people of every age and background with

Keith Lockhart conduct Holiday Pops in the world famous Symphony

Hall, or share in George Frideric Handel’s masterpiece Messiah by Handel and Haydn Society, the

organization that originally premiered the piece in America in 1818?

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the arts and cultural organizations that call Greater Boston home. ArtsBoston has an active membership of over 170 performing and visual arts organizations throughout Greater Boston.

Mayor’s Holiday 2014 Full List of Performances (alphabetical by arts organization)

Show Title
1964
Measure for Measure
Phèdre
The Light Princess
The Donkey Show
O.P.C
Ruby Wax: Sane New World
The Old Man and the Old Moon
The Trip to Bountiful
A Candlelight Christmas
Christmas Memories - Boston
Christmas Memories - Danvers
Christmas Memories - Waltham
Capturing Music: Writing and Singing Music in the Middle Ages Christmas in 15th-century France & Burgundy
Blue Man Group
The Nutcracker
Handel’s Messiah
Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610
New Year's Celebration
Daniel: A Medieval Masterpiece Revisited
The Velveteen Rabbit
Celebrating Richard Strauss

Arts Organization
A Far Cry
Actors' Shakespeare Project Actors' Shakespeare Project American Repertory Theater American Repertory Theater American Repertory Theater American Repertory Theater ArtsEmerson
ArtsEmerson
Back Bay Chorale
Back Bay Ringers
Back Bay Ringers
Back Bay Ringers
Blue Heron
Blue Heron
Blue Man Group
Boston Ballet
Boston Baroque
Boston Baroque
Boston Baroque
Boston Camerata
Boston Children's Theatre Boston Civic Symphony

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Little Murders
Piano Masters Series: David Korevaar
String Masters Series: Andrew Mark and Max Levinson The Italian Girl in Algiers
BEMF Chamber Opera Series:
Pergolesi's La serva padrona & Livietta e Tracollo The Tallis Scholars
Noel
Focusing the Abstract
Sibelius & Brahms
Chosen Child
Boston Pops - Holiday Pops
Boston Pops - Home Alone
New Year’s Eve Concert - Boston Pops Swing Orchestra
An Evening of One Acts
Holiday Pops
San Francisco Symphony
Tania Pérez-Salas Compañia de Danza
What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and Voices Boston:
Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols Candlelight Christmas at Old South
Family Holiday Concert
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas The Musical Brahman/i: A One-Hijra Stand-Up Comedy Show Shiv
The Chronicles of Kalki
Mendelssohn/Wolf Chamber, Year I, Concert II
Holiday Sing
Handel Messiah
A Christmas Carol
Boston Pops Holiday Concert
Pat Metheny Unity Group
Awake and Sing!
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Afternoon Delight
Vanity Project
Les Délices: Myths & Allegories
The Nutcracker - Boston
The Nutcracker - Duxbury
The Nutcracker - Cambridge
Judy Garland Live In Concert
A Latin Holiday Voyage: A Concert for Peace in Venezuela Andy Gross
Chris Distefano
Finesse Mitchell
Jake Johannsen
Julian McCullough
Juston McKinney

Boston Conservatory Boston Conservatory Boston Conservatory Boston Conservatory
Boston Early Music Festival Boston Early Music Festival Boston Gay Men's Chorus Boston Musica Viva
Boston Philharmonic
Boston Playwrights' Theatre Boston Symphony Orchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra Boston University College of Fine Arts Cambridge Symphony Orchestra Celebrity Series of Boston Celebrity Series of Boston
Celebrity Series of Boston Chorus pro Musica
Chorus pro Musica
Citi Performing Arts Center Company One Theatre Company One Theatre Company One Theatre Emmanuel Music
Handel and Haydn Society Handel and Haydn Society Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts Huntington Theatre Company Huntington Theatre Company Improv Asylum
Improv Asylum
Isabella Steward Gardner Museum José Mateo Ballet Theatre
José Mateo Ballet Theatre
José Mateo Ballet Theatre
Judy Garland Show
La Donna Musicale
Laugh Boston
Laugh Boston
Laugh Boston
Laugh Boston
Laugh Boston
Laugh Boston

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Yannis Pappas
Holiday Fanfare!
Kids' Holiday Pops!
The Sleeprunner
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife 13 Things About Ed Carpolotti The Best Brothers
Viva Vivaldi! Holiday Concert - Andover Viva Vivaldi! Holiday Concert - Brookline The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) Handel: The Messiah
Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing St. Petersburg Symphony An American Christmas ComedySportz Boston
The Great War at 100: Great Britain in Song and Verse - Brookline The Great War at 100: Great Britain in Song and Verse - Melrose The Little Prince
A Sea Symphony
Bat Boy: The Musical The Muse of Midwinter:
Carols and an anthem from England - Boston The Muse of Midwinter:
Carols and an anthem from England - Cambridge The Muse of Midwinter:
Carols and an anthem from England - Somerville Beauty and the Beast
Cinderella
Mr. Punch's Christmas Carol
Raccoon Tales
The Joshua Show
The Story of King Midas
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Yankee Peddler: Stories and Songs from Old New England
An Evening with Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters
Elvis & The Beatles: The Greatest Concert That Never Was Jukebox Heroes Live!
Sing-A-Long Mary Poppins
Sing-A-Long Sound of Music
Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra performs Jesus Christ Superstar
The Christmas Revels
Jane Monheit: Hello Bluebird, Celebrating the Life of Judy Garland Sergey Schepkin, piano
Arturo Sandoval
Guitar Night: Bucky Pizzarelli, Gene Bertoncini, and Ed Laub
René Marie sings Eartha Kitt
Shear Madness
A Future Perfect

Laugh Boston
Lexington Symphony Lexington Symphony Luminarium Dance Company Lyric Stage Company of Boston Merrimack Repertory Theatre Merrimack Repertory Theatre Mistral
Mistral
Moonbox Productions
Music Worcester
Music Worcester
Music Worcester
Musica Sacra
New England Fun
New England Light Opera
New England Light Opera
New Repertory Theatre Newton Choral Society Harvard University

Oriana Consort
Oriana Consort
Oriana Consort Puppet Showplace Puppet Showplace Puppet Showplace Puppet Showplace Puppet Showplace Puppet Showplace Puppet Showplace Puppet Showplace Regent Theatre Regent Theatre Regent Theatre Regent Theatre Regent Theatre Regent Theatre Revels

Theater Theater Theater Theater Theater Theater Theater Theater

Rockport Music
Rockport Music
Scullers Jazz Club
Scullers Jazz Club
Scullers Jazz Club
Shear Madness
SpeakEasy Stage Company

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Necessary Monsters Late Night Catechism:
Sister's Christmas Catechism, The Mystery of the Magi's Gold Tomaseen Foley's A Celtic Christmas
Faith Joyously Affirmed!: A Holiday Prelude
Meet Me in St. Louis
Urban Nutcracker
Virginia Woolf's Orlando
Overtures, A Clock, Sonata, & Rhapsody
Meet Me in St. Louis
A Christmas Celtic Sojourn with Brian O'Donovan - Boston
A Christmas Celtic Sojourn with Brian O'Donovan - Worcester Alice
4 Girls 4: A Christmas Together
Blind Boys of Alabama: Holiday Tour
George Lopez
Chamber Series II - Young Artist: Rebecca Printz
Ronald K. Brown\Evidence, A Dance Company
Fall Jazz at the Firehouse: Featuring the Nick Grondin Group Holiday Jazz at the Firehouse
*Half-price ticket quantities are limited, and allotments change daily.

SpeakEasy Stage Company
Spectacle Management Spectacle Management Spectrum Singers
Stoneham Theatre
Tony Williams Dance Center Wellesley Summer Theatre Wellesley Symphony Orchestra Weston Friendly Society of the Performing Arts WGBH
WGBH
Wheelock Family Theatre Wilbur Theatre
Wilbur Theatre
Wilbur Theatre
Winsor Music
World Music/CRASHarts ZUMIX
ZUMIX

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