Testa, Golden, Blackwell and More to Be Part of Joe Iconis Christmas Spectacular

By Adam Hetrick
November 29, 2009

Mary Testa, Annie Golden and Susan Blackwell will participate in the return of The Joe Iconis Christmas Spectacular Dec. 5 and 6 at Ars Nova.

For the second year, songwriter Iconis (The Black Suits, Things to Ruin) promises an evening of "brand new holiday songs, old favorites, tiny elves, enormous reindeer, an inebriated Mr. and Mrs. Claus, and an ungodly number of candy canes . . . Yes, Virginia - Joe's gonna give you something to wassail about, all right."

John Simpkins directs a cast that will feature Testa (Xanadu, Guys and Dolls), Golden (Xanadu, The Arc) and Blackwell ([title of show]), as well as Liz Lark Brown, Bill Coyne, Katrina Rose Dideriksen, Badia Farha, Melanie Field, Molly Hager, Matt Hinkley, Ian Kagey, MK Lawson, Lorinda Lisitza, Jeremy Morse, Lance Rubin, A,J, Shively, Brent Stranathan, Jason Tam, Jared Weiss, Jason "SweetTooth" Williams and Ross Wolkenbrod.

Jennifer Ashley Tepper produces the 8 PM concerts. For tickets, priced $15, visit Ovationtix.

Ars Nova is located at 511 West 54th Street in Manhattan.