Enjoy the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus holiday experience from the comfort of your home. Celebrate the season with BGMC’s traditional favorites and modern classics. Curated from the archives with fresh video. This show will put you in the holiday spirit!
Scheduled*
MeTV December 17, 2021 5:30pm
WCVB December 19, 2021 12:00am
WCVB December 19, 2021 1:00pm
*Schedule subject to change, check local listings
YouTube premiere December 19, 2021 2:00pm
OnDemand, WCVB.COM and BGMC Online December 19, 2021
MEDIA COVERAGE
- Press Release
- Boston Spirit, “WCVB-TV 5 to host Boston Gay Men’s Chorus ‘Merry & Bright’,” December 6, 2021
COMPLETE CREDITS
Why BGMC is not performing in-person in December 2021
We are New England’s largest performing arts organization: we put 200+ singers on stage along with our musicians and dancers. There are very few facilities in Boston or Greater Boston that can house us; and even fewer that have acoustics that complements our music, let alone audience amenities that you expect.
Jordan Hall fits our production criteria. It’s why we have performed there for 38 of our 40 years. Jordan Hall’s rental guidelines for the Fall of 2021 exclude BGMC on a number of factors; therefore it is not available for us to rent. (Under New England Conservatory’s COVID protocols, they opted not to rent to choirs/choruses, to organizations with 40+ performers, and additionally have restricted audiences to 40% capacity, all while maintaining their existing fee structure.)
We have looked at every possible venue as an alternative, from high schools to colleges, from Temples to the Catholic Cathedral, and everything in between. We’ve investigated all of the major theaters, as well as spaces that aren’t usually considered for performance. Venues either are in-house rentals only or they can’t adequately house the chorus and audience, or already are booked with other programs. Our strength is being a large organization. We will not change who we are, so we will have to be more patient than we want to be.
Without a performance hall, BGMC will not be able to offer our annual Holiday program in December of 2021 in person. We are tremendously disappointed and look forward to returning to the stage in June of 2022.