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Top Chicago Performance Picks For the Weekend of of Dec. 28, 2007

Author: Adam Fendelman, Category: Theater

It is a Santa extravaganza this weekend at the Bailiwick Repertory Theatre in the Lakeview neighborhood.

Who wouldn’t need detox after making toys for screaming kids all day long? Watch as Santa pays for drinking and driving his sleigh by going to a rehab center run by the estranged Mrs. Claus in “7 Santas”. The show is on Friday at 10:30 p.m. and Sunday at 4:30 p.m. Tickets cost $15 to $25.

If a drunken Santa isn’t your thing, watch as Trista Smith and Jason Grimm recreate a Missouri Christmas complete with candied yams and sing-alongs. “Santa Claus and Other Lies” shows on Saturday at 10 p.m. and costs $12. If you bring a ticket stub from “Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer,” your price is only six bucks.

If you like to be surprised when you see a play, then check out the Cornservatory’s “Soon-to-Have-a-Witty-Title Chicago Christmas Spectacular”. Watch as the center rotates 14 hilarious plays inspired by the staff’s holiday photos. The show is Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.

By Stephanie Huls