Christmas Show

22/12/2025

🎄 Kiwi Kirihimete Adventure 2025🎄
We’re excited to share the official photos from this year’s Christmas Show!
Huge thanks to Still Vision (Jackie Gay) for capturing the magic on stage, and to our incredible cast and crew for bringing this show to life once again.
To everyone who came along and filled the room with festive cheer — thank you. Have a look through the photos, tag a friend if you spot someone you know, and relive a few favourite moments.
From all of us at the Christmas Show, Meri Kirihimete ❤️✨

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22/12/2025

12/12/2025

This is the best! Jennian Homes Central Otago and Queenstown, thanks for making someone's day and thank you to everyone to entered and enjoyed the wee house at the Christmas Show, it sure was a hit with the younger crowd! 🏠

08/12/2025

🎄 What an incredible Christmas Show weekend! 🎄

Our hearts are absolutely full. Three packed-out shows, thousands of smiling faces, and a whole lot of festive magic shared across our community !

A huge thank you to every single person who came along, cheered, clapped, sang, and supported the show. Your energy lifts our performers in the best possible way.

And to everyone who donated to the Salvation Army Christmas Hamper Appeal, your generosity will make Christmas brighter for local families who need it most. We’re so grateful for the kindness shown by our community this year.

To our cast, dancers, gymnasts, aerialists, kapa haka, choir, backstage crew, tech team, volunteers, parents, and every helper who pitched in… you are the heartbeat of this show. Over 100 people pour their time and talent into creating this experience, and it truly shows on stage. Your dedication is what turns a simple idea into a tradition thousands look forward to every year.

And lastly — to our wonderful sponsors and partners who make the Christmas Show possible:
✨ Queenstown Lakes District Council
✨ More FM Queenstown, Wānaka & Central Otago
✨ TomTom Productions
✨ Jennian Homes Central Otago and Queenstown
✨ Still Vision
✨ Community Trust South
Your support allows us to keep the show affordable, accessible, and filled to the brim with local talent. Thank you for believing in this kaupapa and helping us bring a Kiwi Kirihimete Adventure to life.

From our whole Christmas Show whānau — ngā mihi nui, and Meri Kirihimete! 🎅💛✨

Here’s to more joy, more magic, and more community moments just like this.

03/12/2025

🎁 Drop a Gift at the Christmas Show

This year the local Salvation Army has seen a jump in families needing support, on top of rising food costs. So we’re helping them fill the Gift Grotto with presents for local whānau.

If you're coming to the show, you can drop off a new, unwrapped gift for any age group.
We’ll have big collection boxes at the entrance, and the Salvation Army team will be there helping us welcome you in.

Other drop-off locations (until 20 Dec):
• 71 Gorge Road
• 8 Pin Oak Ave
• Kmart Entrance – Queenstown Central

25/11/2025

Fleur and Arka had a kōrero with the Lakes Weekly Bulletin about their journey so far in the Queenstown Christmas Show — from joining rehearsals to discovering what a Kiwi Kirihimete looks like on stage.

We’re pretty stoked to see two of our young cast sharing their experience with the wider community. They’ve put in a huge effort, and it’s awesome to see their excitement shining through.

If you haven’t grabbed your tickets yet, now’s a good time — the Christmas magic is building!
Sat 6 Dec (3pm) and Sun 7 Dec (1pm & 5pm)
🎟 www.christmasshow.co.nz

21/11/2025

Tickets are moving — book your showtime today 🎟️
Three performances only: Sat 6 Dec (3pm) • Sun 7 Dec (1pm & 5pm)
Queenstown Events Centre. Local talent, big festive energy.
➡️ www.christmasshow.co.nz

05/11/2025

🎄 It’s Back — The Queenstown Christmas Show 2025!

☀️ Get ready for a Kiwi Kirihimete Adventure!

When Olaf’s flight home to Iceland is cancelled, Aroha takes him on a whirlwind tour of Queenstown, meeting Rudolph, Mrs Claus and a cast of locals determined to bring Christmas to life in true Kiwi style.

✨ THREE SHOWS ONLY
📅 Saturday 6 December – 3 pm
📅 Sunday 7 December – 1 pm & 5 pm
📍 Queenstown Events Centre

🎟️ Tickets on sale now → www.christmasshow.co.nz

Featuring dazzling performances by:
🎪 Silk & Circus Aerialists
🤸‍♀️ Queenstown Gymnastics Club
🩰 Wakatipu Conservatoire of Classical Ballet
🎶 Turn Up the Music Children’s Choir
🩰🕺🩰The Remarkables Men’s Ballet

Aroha – Ivy Sim
Olaf – Elton Leatherbarrow
Rudolf – Darcey Dwyer
Mrs Claus & Santa Claus
And a stella line up from a cast of over 100!

🌟 A show about our community, performed by our community. 🌟

Click “Going” on our Facebook event and grab your tickets today — this one sells fast!

02/11/2025

🌍 Step into The World of Christmas! In 2024, audiences travelled the globe without leaving Queenstown — from the snowy North Pole to a summer Christmas in Aotearoa, meeting characters and cultures celebrating in their own unique ways.

🎄 Led by an incredible cast of locals — Yule Cat (Scarlett Hamilton), Holly (Scarlett Cruickshank), Robin (Charlie Pagan), Stubby (Lucy Huse), Door Slammer (Ivy Wedd), Spoon‑Licker (Elie Skye Payze), Doorway Sniffer (Ava Pienaar) and Sausage Swiper (Thahan Weeraddana) — the stage came alive with festive mischief and magic.

✨ Supported by a brilliant ensemble (Oisin Cantwell, Arka Huck, Zara Black, Amelia Wilson, Addisyn Miller, Nina Harrison, Maddison Hearn, Yuzuki Muta), soaring backing vocals from Helena Hornbacher, Indy Hamilton, Ruby Pullar, Sophia Brown and Sophie Thompson, and a powerhouse dance troupe featuring Anju Okajima, Leonor Romero, Thea Cosgrove, Zoe Thurston, Erika Clay, Ivy Sim, Chloe Cao, Amy Franklin, Sequoia Wallace, Alexis Fluit and Etta Cosgrove.

🎪 With stunning performances from Wakatipu Conservatoire, Silk & Circus and the Queenstown Gymnastics Club, it was a joyful showcase of music, movement and community spirit that filled the Events Centre with Kiwi Christmas energy.

🎅 Can you spot yourself or your whānau in these photos? Tag them below!
✨ The next adventure announces 6 November...

28/10/2025

🐭 Remember Murray the Mouse — the tiny hero with a huge heart?
In 2023 we learned that the real gift is what we give, not what we get.
Sixty local performers lit up the stage with dance, circus and joy — and Queenstown answered with cheers.

🎁 Tag a friend who was part of the magic or brought their whānau to see it.

27/10/2025

🔔 2022 was a cracker of a show! The 12 Bells of Christmas followed five cheeky kids — Smarty (Indy Hamilton), Rebel (Charlie Pagan), Gloomy (Kuratea Huck), Cutie (Tatum Hookey) and Freaky (Scarlett Hamilton) — as they raced around Queenstown to find Granny’s missing bells and save Christmas.

🎭 Joined by Granny (Dana Hamilton), Santa (Marc Hamilton) and a few mischievous cats, (and then we had the full Hamilton family on stage!) with a fire-dancing cameo from Anna Stuart, the stage was alight with local stars.

From the dancers of DEVOS and Wakatipu Conservatoire to the Queenstown Gymnastics Club and the ever-iconic Remarkables Men’s Ballet, it was pure Kiwi Christmas fun — full of music, chaos and sparkle.

23/10/2025

🎸 Flashback to 2021 — when the show went online but the spirit stayed live!

JJ and her cousins were ready to rock the Christmas Talent Show… until Santa bumped his head and forgot who he was!

Featuring The Hamiltone’s, DEVOS Dancers, Wakatipu Conservatoire of Classical Ballet, Queenstown Gymnastics Club — and the legendary Remarkables Men’s Ballet.
💻 Watch the full show here ➡️ https://vimeo.com/655686235
👇 Tag someone who took part — or watched from home!

JJ and her cousins are ready to rock out at the Christmas Talent Show. An unexpected accident interrupts their practice; Santa has bumped his head… and he…