Give your holiday calendar something audiences have not already seen a hundred times.
Your audience wants a holiday night worth leaving the house for. A Very Monster Christmas™ gives your venue a ready-to-book theatrical centerpiece with comedy, spectacle, audience participation and a cast of Christmas misfits who make the season feel strange again.
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- Format
- Theatrical holiday variety show
- Run time
- 90 minutes
- Audience
- 18+ • 40–500 guests
- Capacity
- 40–500 guests
Christmas belongs to the weirdos.
Christmas has become painfully perfect. Everything matches, everyone behaves and anything strange has been pushed out. Then, on Christmas Eve, an invitation summons a collection of creatures, misfits and troublemakers to the North Pole.
They soon discover that every one of them has landed on the Naughty List. Their mission is to get off it before midnight. They are spectacularly bad at being nice.
The Naughty List
Each Monster makes a case for belonging through a featured act while the host puts the cast—and sometimes the audience—through ridiculous holiday challenges. The failures pile up until one guest earns the title of Naughtiest Person in the Room.
The Holly King
An ancient winter ruler arrives with a plan for the “perfect” Christmas: no monsters, no misfits and no chaos. The conflict becomes bigger than escaping a list. The Monsters must decide whether they want acceptance from someone who never intended to include them.
The finale
They stop asking permission and create their own Christmas instead. The stage erupts into a gothic holiday celebration, the audience chooses joyful chaos over perfection and the Monsters discover that being different was never what made them naughty.
What kind of show is it?
This 90-minute adult variety show can feature drag, burlesque, comedy, magic, music, circus and specialty acts. The cast may change from season to season, but the story remains: funny first, spectacular second, spooky third and genuinely warm underneath it all.
Bring it to your stage
The production scales from intimate rooms to 500-capacity venues with a cast of four to six. Monster Presents!™ handles casting, programming, the run of show, production coordination and promotional assets; the venue handles the room, ticketing and front of house.
Your stage. Our production. The most wonderful nightmare of the year.
Perfect for
Made for
- Theaters and performing arts spaces that need distinctive holiday programming
- Venues looking for an adult alternative to traditional Christmas entertainment
- Presenters that want a marketable seasonal centerpiece
- Properties building a holiday weekend or destination package
Probably not for
- Children’s programming or traditional family Christmas concerts
- Rooms seeking background music only
- Venues without basic sound, lighting and private changing space
How it comes together
What audiences get
- PRE-SHOWThe audience enters Santa’s increasingly strange North Pole. The Monsters have been summoned because they are on the Naughty List and must plead their cases before midnight.
- ACT I — THE NAUGHTY LISTSanta welcomes the audience and introduces the rules. Each Monster gets a featured performance to prove they deserve a place in Christmas. Between acts, Santa conducts comic holiday challenges and audience interactions. The harder the Monsters try to behave, the more obvious it becomes that Santa’s idea of Christmas requires everyone to be perfect.
- AUDIENCE FEATURESanta and the Monsters identify the Naughtiest Person in the Room through a short interactive challenge.
- ACT I CLIMAXSanta rejects the Monsters’ efforts and reveals his real agenda: a perfect Christmas with no misfits, monsters or chaos. Santa becomes the show’s antagonist — Evil Santa / the Holly King persona — and threatens to erase the Monsters from Christmas entirely.
- INTERMISSIONApproximately 15 minutes.
- ACT II — CHRISTMAS BITES BACKThe Monsters return no longer trying to earn Santa’s approval. Featured acts become bolder, stranger and more celebratory as they build their own version of Christmas.
- CONFRONTATIONSanta attempts one final perfect-Christmas takeover. The Monsters enlist the audience to reject the rules and choose a Christmas where the strange belong.
- FINALESanta is defeated, transformed or reluctantly brought into the celebration. Full-cast finale: Christmas belongs to the weirdos. Curtain call and audience send-off.
What Monster brings
- 90-minute theatrical holiday variety production
- Two acts with approximately 15-minute intermission
- 4–6 rotating Monster performers; 5 is the standard touring configuration
- Recurring Santa narrative role
- Creative direction, master story and adaptable run of show
- Production coordination
- Hosted story transitions and audience participation
- Promotional copy and basic digital marketing assets
What the venue provides
- A safe stage or clearly defined performance area
- House sound capable of reliable music playback
- Wireless handheld microphone for Santa/host narration
- Basic theatrical lighting or an agreed lighting plot
- Private changing/dressing area for 4–6 performers
- Backstage or wing access where available
- Reasonable load-in and sound-check access
- Venue front-of-house and ticketing staff unless otherwise arranged
What the venues said
“A very unique and wonderful event organization that gives you a nice break from your average drag show.”
“Excellent show filled with talented individuals performing their hearts out.”
“Absolutely wonderful inclusive production with so much effort, care and artistry!”
“Super fun time! I can’t wait to see what else they do.”
Optional upgrades
- Expanded 6-performer edition
- Venue-specific dinner or holiday package integration
- Post-show meet-and-greet / photo opportunity
- Enhanced scenic, lighting or specialty-production package by quote
Questions we get
Is it horror?
No. It is funny first, theatrical second and spooky third.
Is it all ages?
This version is designed for audiences 18+.
Can it fit a smaller room?
Yes. The production scales to intimate rooms and larger theaters.
Do we have to produce the show?
No. Monster Presents!™ handles the entertainment and show flow while the venue handles its normal house operations.
Bring A Very Monster Christmas™ to your venue
Turn a predictable holiday date into a ticketed event adult audiences can actually get excited about.
Tell us the date, the room and roughly what you have in mind. We answer every one of these ourselves.
Or write to us: info@monster-presents.com
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