Where to celebrate New Year with your child: the best events in major US cities

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Christmas and New Year are family holidays, and they are especially important for children, supporting their belief in fairy tales and miracles.

Therefore, when celebrating these holidays, parents look for places and activities that are kid-friendly - with colorful decorations, interesting performances, Father Frost or Santa Claus and sweet gifts.

We have compiled a list of the best New Year's events in different cities of the United States, where you can celebrate Christmas and New Year with children.

New Year's play “The Adventures of Santa Claus and Snow Maiden”

The International Theater of Young Spectators demonstrates the existence of real New Year's magic in its performances and invites you to amazing performances in 9 cities in the USA, from December 27 to January 7.

Give your children a trip to your favorite fairy tales together with brave heroes: Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, White Queen and Baba Yaga, characters from “Alice in Wonderland”, bunnies and snowmen.

The program of the play also includes an interactive part in which children will help the characters on the stage uncover the mystery of the disappearance of the staff of Santa Claus.

Interesting riddles and quizzes, impeccable choreography and New Year's songs - all this will give your children a sense of real magic and faith in miracles.

“The Adventures of Father Frost, the Snow Maiden and Everyone-All-Everyone” awaits its young viewers and their parents in the following cities:

• December 27 - Miami;
• December 28 - Wayne;
• December 29 - New York;
• December 30 - Philadelphia;
• 3 January - Denver;
• 4 January - Salt Lake City;
• 5 January - Seattle;
• 6 January - San Francisco;
• 7 January - Los Angeles.

New Year's concert “Jazz for the whole family”

December 9 in New York will host the annual charity event, which will have a lot of live music performed by Boris Kurganov, Misha Tsyganov, Alexandra Mogilevich, Dmitry Kolesnik, and vocals by Nadi and Yuli Geniusz, Masha Kolesnik.

A special quiz will be held among the guests, a buffet and drinks will be offered to them, and congratulations and Christmas gifts from Father Frost and Snow Maiden will be offered for the youngest guests.

All money collected from ticket sales will go to the Orange Penguin Children's Charity Fund.

New Year's Russian-language performance “Magic Mirror”

23 and December 30 Beaverton City Library in Portland, Oregon, Slavic Theater Scarlet sails will present the New Year's Russian-language performance “Magic Mirror” for children and adults.

Spectators will plunge into the atmosphere of the usual celebration of the New Year in the post-Soviet space, along with their favorite forest characters from fairy tales, as well as Baba Yaga, Santa Claus and Snow Maiden. Every child older than 2 will receive a sweet gift from the main character of the holiday.

The actors will tell the story of a magic mirror. This is what the inhabitants of the forest will decide to give to Santa Claus for his birthday. The mirror is not easy, it helps its owners rejuvenate. Having learned about this, Baba Yaga will want to get him. Whether she will succeed, watch in the play.

Details of the event and tickets - at link.

New Year's holiday “Children do good!”

23 - December 25 in New York will be held New Year's holiday for children. Guests are waiting for New Year's performance, greetings from Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, sweet gifts for children and New Year's disco for the whole family.

In addition, the Kaleidoscope folk dance club prepared an interactive performance for children, in which they will be both spectators and participants of the performance.

All children will receive sweets from Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, they will be able to take a picture as a souvenir.

Tickets can be booked by phone: (347) 447 28 25; (347) 922 4884.

All proceeds will be donated to the Orange Penguin Children's Charity.

Lighting the lights on the tree in Rockefeller Center

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On November 29 at Rockefeller Center, the traditional ceremony of lighting the lights on the main tree of New York will be held. This year the tree weighs 12 tons, the height of the tree is almost 23 meters. 30 000 multi-colored LEDs and about 8 kilometers of wires will be used for its illumination; the star of the tree is traditionally decorated with a star with a diameter of almost 3 meters and a weight of 250 kg produced by the company Swarovski.

Guests are also waiting for dance and music performances, skating rink, competitions, entertainment, food and much more.

The Christmas tree can also be visited from 5: 30 to 23: 30 on any day from November 29 to January 7.

Union Square tree opening in San Francisco

November 24 in San Francisco at Union Square near the store Macy's light one of the most recognizable Christmas trees in Bay area. The 25-meter tree will be decorated with more than 33 with thousands of lights and numerous ornaments.

The festive ceremony will begin at 18.00 and last until 19.00. The Christmas tree is expected to be lit in 18.50. Also viewers expect live music and dance performances.

Lights on the main tree in Los Angeles County

November 27 will be the official ceremony of lighting the lights on the main tree of the Los Angeles County.

Visitors to the event will receive free hot chocolate, as well as listen to holiday songs performed by chamber music ensembles. After the ceremony, guests can stroll through Grand Park, appreciating its festive decoration.

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