Under the stained-glass glow of CineVita’s Spiegeltent at Hollywood Park, holiday nostalgia hits with a festive tune. On a cool December evening, the 15,000-square-foot pavilion buzzes like a film set between takes—mirrors catching stray beams of light, carved wood framing the sounds of an eight-piece band tuning up. This is where TINSELCOLOR: Holiday Soundtracks Live comes alive, an immersive remix of the holiday movies people grew up with, rebuilt for a city that knows spectacle better than most.
Joey McIntyre slips into the host role with the ease of someone who has lived several lives onstage—from pop icon to Broadway mainstay—and now guides audiences through more than 25 film scores threaded into one cinematic concert. The room bends with color as the cast settles in: Brian Justin Crum, whose Broadway power and Hollywood Bowl gravitas make him one of the night’s most commanding vocal drivers; Ty Taylor, the volcanic frontman of Vintage Trouble, bringing arena energy to a venue built on intimacy; Cheyenne Isabel Wells, the breakout from Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, whose voice cuts through the tent with unforced swagger; and Dionne Gipson, a longtime For The Record anchor whose presence adds emotional ballast to the production.
Around them, a tight ensemble fills the space with motion—vocalists, musicians, and dancers shifting the show from soft-focus warmth to big-screen electricity. Theater veterans like James Byous, Lord KraVen, Maeva Feitelson, Keh Mey, and Brayden Gleave add layers of texture, while dancers Princeton Kirkland, Jessica Bally, Austin Lee, and Tina Hidai turn holiday choreography into something closer to a pulse.
What For The Record has built here isn’t a greatest-hits revue. It feels more like a holiday mixtape crafted for Los Angeles—where film culture bleeds into daily life and a soundtrack can say more than dialogue ever could. Each night in December, CineVita becomes a place to gather, decompress, and tap into a kind of joy that isn’t naïve but hard-won, the kind that makes sense in a city that keeps reinventing itself.
And with the run spanning December 2–30, TINSELCOLOR lands at the exact moment Angelenos crave a little cinematic escape.
Running for now until December 30, get tickets at tinselcolor.com
Dates: December 2–30
Location: CineVita at Hollywood Park
Address: 1248 District Drive, Inglewood
Photo credits: Photos courtesy of Zak Cassar
