Do Everything You Can To See Mariah Carey’s Christmas Show
I’m not a big Christmas music guy. Yeah, true, technically I’m Jewish, but that hasn’t influenced my stance that the majority of popular Christmas songs are cloying, saccharine and annoying. I don’t like to rock around the Christmas tree; I’m not interested in Santa Claus coming to town. On a long drive on Christmas Day last year, my wife and I listened to an hour of holiday music before I got bored and turned on the newest Charli XCX album. I have been called a grinch.
None of those facts mattered at Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You concert series on Monday night (Dec. 14), when the hour-long performance and hoopla surrounding it made my heart grow three sizes. Carey’s eight-night residency at the Beacon Theatre in Manhattan might be the most euphoric music experience in the city right now; even if you weren’t dressed as an elf or sexy Santa or candy cane or whatever, you had a marvelous time with MC as your emcee, because there was no option not to.
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