Friday, December 19, 2025

Kennedy Center Couldn’t Get Anyone to Put On Their Promised “Birth of Christ” Pageant After All — Just the Usual Holiday Entertainment

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This is a funny complaint because personally, I don’t care.

Do you?

After taking over the Kennedy Center last winter, Donald Trump sent lackey Richard Grenell out to do press.

In the New York Times, Grenell promised big things. Among them, a pageant about the birth of Christ for the holiday season.

Grenell said at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland: “How crazy is it to think that we’re going to celebrate Christ at Christmas with a big traditional production, to celebrate what we are all celebrating in the world during Christmastime, which is the birth of Christ?”

That was 9 months ago. Children have been conceived and born in that time, but no Christ pageant.

Holiday fare at the Kennedy Center will be the same as usual, like a choir singing Handel’s “Messiah.”

There’s also the traditional Christmas musical, Monty Python’s “Spamalot,” which plays all through the season.

But apparently Grenell couldn’t find anyone to do the Christ celebration. There were no takers, either making it or buying tickets to it.

In fact, as the Washington Post recently reported, ticket sales are way off at the Kennedy Center. Between the government shut down and the fact that MAGA is not really interested in cultural activities, the Kennedy Center has been hobbled by Trump and Grenell.

You can read my previous story about the Kennedy Center Honors below.

Trump Planning to Upstage Kennedy Center Honors by Giving Himself Soccer Peace Prize with Andrea Bocelli Singing Two Days Earlier

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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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