Dallas Weekend, November 12-15: Plano Comedy Festival Opens, Snowday and Ice! Light Up Friday, and the Symphony Plays Ravel & Gershwin
Two long-running holiday installations open Friday — Snowday and Santaland at Galleria Dallas, and Ice! featuring Harry Potter at Gaylord Texan in Grapevine. Thursday starts the Plano Comedy Festival and a Dallas Symphony weekend at the Meyerson, and Sunday closes with Sesame Street Live at the Majestic and a celebration of life for Ochre House founder Matthew Posey at Gilley's.
DALLAS - The Metroplex weekend starts Thursday night with laughter and symphony. The Plano Comedy Festival — billed as the largest comedy festival in North Texas — runs through Sunday at Mic Drop Comedy in Plano and Backdoor Comedy Club in Richardson, with headliners Eric Eaton, Ainsley Bailey, Jason Salmon and Dana Gould, CultureMap Dallas's weekend guide reports. At the Meyerson Symphony Center, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra plays 'Ravel & Gershwin' on Thursday and Friday, Stephane Deneve conducting and Cedric Tiberghien at the piano, and former Saturday Night Live cast member Michael Longfellow performs five shows through Saturday at Dallas Comedy Club.
Friday is opening day for the season. At Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Ice! featuring Harry Potter opens through January 3 — ten themed rooms behind a towering ice sculpture of Hedwig, with six two-story ice slides in the Hogwarts Castle room. Across town at Galleria Dallas, Snowday and Santaland open the same day: Santaland, with its simulated train ride to the North Pole, runs through December 24, and Snowday runs through January 3. Bruce Wood Dance also opens its 17th season Friday with 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' at Moody Performance Hall, three performances through Sunday.
Saturday's listings run from opera to rock: Opera Arlington presents 'Recuerdos,' a program of Mexican, Spanish and zarzuela song, at Farr Best Theater in Mansfield, and Daughtry plays the Majestic Theatre on the band's 20 Years Unplugged tour.
Sunday belongs to families and to remembrance. 'Sesame Street Live: Elmo's Got the Moves' plays the Majestic Theatre, and the local theater community gathers at Gilley's Dallas for a celebration of life for Matthew Posey, the Ochre House Theatre founder who died in early October; Texas Theatre hosts a screening of his last film on Monday, with proceeds going to Ochre House.
