When: Dec. 14-15, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Dec. 16, 8 p.m., Dec. 17-18, 2:30 & 8 p.m., Dec. 20-22, 7:30 p.m. and Fri., Dec. 23, 8 p.m. 2011
Cowboys and Christmas go hand in hand over at Actor's Theatre of Charlotte, where Chaps! A Jingle, Jangle Christmas has taken the stage to lasso your spirits silly for the holidays. Set during a Christmas in 1944, the musical follows an evening of chaos and surprise, as a radio station gears up for its big holiday broadcast. In a nutshell: A popular cowboy named Tex Riley and his troupe of entertainers are scheduled to appear, but well ... don't. In an act of desperation, a frantic radio producer hands the scripts off to some offbeat folks who make an unpredicted ripple in the radio waves.
— Anita Overcash