Doris Dear Christmas Special: An Old Fashioned Christmas

Doris Dear brings An Old Fashioned Christmas to the Triad Theater for the 12th edition of this annual Christmas special. The show stars Doris Dear, with Blake Allen as musical director, and runs about 75 minutes. The evening combines holiday stories, comedy, and storytelling, with a changing group of guest performers drawn from Broadway, jazz, opera, and cabaret. The listing frames it as a full-hearted seasonal gathering: laughter sits alongside more sentimental moments, while familiar family-table tales get retold with Doris Dear’s own fabulously embellished touch.

This Christmas special has become a recurring part of Doris Dear’s work, returning after eleven previous seasons and a history of sold-out nights. Rather than presenting a fixed supporting cast, the production makes room for an evolving slate of guests, so each engagement can bring different voices from theatrical, vocal, and cabaret worlds into the Rumpus Room. The available information does not identify Doris Dear’s hometown, career history, or collaborators beyond musical director Blake Allen and the guest-performer tradition. It does, however, establish a long-running holiday show built around Doris Dear as its host and star, using songs, comic turns, and personal-style Christmas stories to make the season’s rituals the subject of the night.