/// The Pageants of Santanalia ///
/// The Pageants of Santanalia ///
/// The Pageants of Santanalia ///



Beloved Santanalia !!

2008 /// Bloody Noes Santanalia Show, Meddlesome Manor
2009 /// 2nd Annual Santanalia Pageant, Boulder Coffee
2010 /// 3rd Annual Santanalia Pageant, MUCCC
2011 /// 4th Annual Santanalia Pageant, MUCCC & The Vault, Buffalo, NY
2013 /// Santanalia Sales Event, Krampus Trade Show, MUCCC
2015 /// Santanalia Revue, MetalSome Art, Hungerford Building
2016 /// 9th Annual Santanalia Pageant, Visual Studies Workshop
2017 /// Economicus & Lawyer (Yule & Thule) meet son Santa, Eastview Mall



Please continue scrolling for memories and details of Santanalias of Yore ---


/// 2008 First Santanalia, Meddlesome Manor ///
Bloody Noes introduce the Santanalia concept at a basement show with a pantomime to prerecorded narrative voiced by Ed Downey


/// 2009 2nd Annual Santanalia Pageant, Boulder Coffee ///
The first iteration of the large cast Pageant, starring Andrea Salzman + Lindsey Downey + Louis Herczeg + Mary Rose + Eric Frate + Ted Forsyth + Dan Lovett + Masumi + Ed Downey narrates (pictures follow)

Long, long ago in the sixth century / Thatʼs the 500ʼs, way way BCE / There once was a magical land called Thule / With a yearly festival known as the Yule / Thule was an island in Northern seas / Where flying cars flew by factories
The Elves never lolligagged, nor did they shirk / They were programmed to love to do all of that work / They built up machines that could do anything / And brought many riches to Economicus their king
They concocted a plan with ambitions imperial / To tinker with workersʼ genetic material / They decided to make all the workers much smaller / Which made them much lower than if they were taller / More industrious, more friendly, more obedient and faster / These new hominids would quite please their master / And when weʼre finished, owners said to themselves / Weʼll have a new species! And weʼll call them “Elves.”
On her head the hat sat. Then the spark did arrive / He looked in her eyes - the snowwoman was alive! / He called her Icy, but her speech was all jivey / So we, like she, pronounce her name “Ivy”. / When she awoke, Peter mistletoed her / Which cast a spell over her with its odor
She fell in love with him right then and right there / And he, with not even a moment to spare / Had the snowball wed them and carried her off / Into a marital pumpkin quite soft / And then with the mistletoe mentioned above / Peter and Ivy made sweet gnome-snowwoman love
“Then let this be the season of cheer from now onward! / For freeing these elves, you shall be ever honored! / Weʼll deck the halls in the finest regalia! / Weʼll name the season after you and call it, ʻSantanalia!ʼ”




/// 2010 3rd Annual Santanalia Pageant, MUCCC ///
/// 2011 4th Annual Santanalia Pageant, MUCCC & The Vault, Buffalo, NY ///
starring Bobby Maville + Joel Dow + Jeffrey Askins + Masumi + Kameron Ackerman + Ted Forsyth + Beth Mickunas + Dawn Zuppelli + Sarah Coppola + Kate Stathis with narration by Ed Downey
Ho Ho Horchestra: Chris Reeg + Mike Rheinheimer + Mike Rae + Darren DeWispelaere
Ted as Pageant MC + opening acts including Dave Duncan's "Bowling with Ganesh"


In a world of Gnomes, the fiercest competers / This child named Peter was competer-eater / The meanest! The nastiest! The darkest, most ominous / Krampus named him ::: Peter Economicus

He now controlled Thule, and all factories / The wealth was all his to do with what he pleased / He scared all the Elves, he whipped them and beat them / When he neednʼt have really done this, to defeat them

Ec consulted the ball. It brought bad news: / A new child was coming, an enfant terrible whose / Powers would take poor Black Peterʼs away! / Economicus rose from the globe, said, “I say!"

He ran to the pumpkin. Tore off the wreath / And he was shocked to see the scene beneath: / Ivy had already somehow given birth! / And the child was clearly no child of this earth

The baby it rattled in Peteʼs very grasp / Pete had to think now, and think very fast

Burgermeister, the mayor of the elf village and Economicus' first child, with his mother, poor blind Sarah.

Santa now spoke to all of the elves / He told them, My people, now fight for yourselves! / Economicus owns everything in your homes / He rents it out to you to profit his gnomes / I know that you know this. So if you agree / Everyone together, please repeat after me: Ho! Ho! Ho!

Then at midnight he did something quite shocking / He went down their chimneys, put coal in their stockings!!

He said, “Now my elves! Just what are you doing? / What kind of trouble is this troublemaker brewing? / He continued, barely able to hold back his sobs / “My children, my children! Now donʼt you want jobs?" / “NO!” said the elves, and their cute elvish bellies / Did jingle and jangle like bowls filled with jelly

RELEASE THE NECRO-GNOMES!!! / Without the magic to keep them at bay / All of the gnomes now rose up from their graves

The Ho Ho Horchestra

Our Narrator Edwap Downey




/// 2013 Santanalia Sales Event, Krampus Trade Show, MUCCC ///
Trade show tabling event increasing Santanalia visibility featuring Ian's hard-hitting sales presentation



/// 2015 Santanalia, MetalSome Art, Hungerford Building ///
Smaller scale rolling pageant revue for holiday shopping event featuring musical guests Joel Dow and John Gallo






/// 2016 9th Annual Santanalia Pageant, Visual Studies Workshop ///
Back on the big stage with Masumi + Jackie Das + Kristina Grabowski + Amber McAlister + Jenny Maire + Aydin Toure + Kameron Ackerman + Ray Mitrano + Travis Indovina + Ted as Coca Cola Santa with narration by elf Ron Bauerle and Ed Downey
Ho Ho Horchestra: Arden Zollweg + Phil Herford + R Scott Oliver /// Jeffrey Askins opening act
"Santanalia here we come / Right back where we started from"
Backstage photos by Kameron Ackerman:


At Ec's ice castle


Coca Cola Santa


Santanalia carols


An Elf at work


Economicus in sleigh


Yule Art


The Ho Ho Horchestra


Our Burgermeister


Directing is hard





/// 2017 Economicus & Lawyer visit Santa, Black Friday Eastview Mall ///
In seeking reconciliation with his estranged son Santa Claus, Economicus and representing lawyer from Yule & Thule Law Associates (Ray Mitrano) present Santa with a contract. Adorable.






Thanks & Credit /// Thanks for all the costumes & the curtains Lindsey Downey /// and all hands who pitched in on sets and props esp. Lucas Jones & Jenny Mariano /// and Brian Blatt gave the company a nice ride to Buffalo in his bus /// and to Finkbeiner for the laptop /// Our sponsor BlattCo /// Santanalia poem & texts written by Ian Downey



























































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