Holiday cheer happens here

The Leisure World Theater Club and the Video Producers Club has produced plays and readings to be viewed online to make your holidays merrier, all from the comfort and safety of home. They are available on several platforms. Read on for specific viewing information. GRF TREE LIGHTING/ MENORAH LIGHTING The annual tree lighting ceremony featuring holiday entertainment by The Entertainers club at Veterans Plaza Dec. 10 can be seen on youtube. com. The menorah lighting filmed Dec. 8 can also be seen on youtube.com. Both events will also be available at SBTVChannel 3, Spectrum 1390 and other stations this month. A COVID CHRISTMAS

The Theater Club produced “A COVID Christmas” about a pandemic that has

almost shut down the world. In the North Pole, Santa is ready to go, but a health emergency has quarantined Santa and his entire workshop staff for 14 days. There is only one person who can save the day. Tune in LW Channel 1390 to watch the Christmas Eve adventures of Santa, his elves with two unlikely heroes who try and save the day.

SPECIAL DELIVERY Eight LW actors are featured in “Special Delivery,” a Christmas play, including Joyce Basch, nimbly tap dancing her heart out; Luanne DeSantis, Charla Gae, the intrepid grandma headed to the North Pole; Russell Gray, Phil Mandeville as Santa, Oralia Osuna, Mark Scott, and Wild Willey, a fearsome pirate with a shoulder-mounted parrot.

Watch for the show on youtube. com on the joeseniorvideo channel, on Spectrum Cable Channel 1390 from around 4 p.m.-4:15 p.m. and on SBTVChannel 3.

THREE TOLD TALES

Charlie Guggino gives a reading based on the last chapter of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” the 1843 novella that recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.

Joseph Chavez reads “The Christmas Eve Truce of WWI,” written by LWer Taylor White from old newspaper articles.

Finally, Santa Claus, aka Phil Mandeville, will give a spirited rendition of “The Night Before Christmas,” a poem first published anonymously in 1823 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed authorship in 1837.

Joseph Valentinetti produced the show, which can be seen at http://www.lwsb.com/threetoldtales/ and at www.youtube.com on the Joseph Valentinetti Channel.

SBTV Channel-3 listings are printed in the Community section and available at www.sbtv3.org.