The Holiday Dinner Theatre
holiday dinner theatre /ˈhɒl.ɪ.deɪ ˈdɪn.ə ˈθɪə.tə/ noun
1. A dazzling, vintage-inspired evening where fine dining meets live performance in an immersive world of holiday magic.
2. Guests become part of the story—mingling with characters, dancing to big band melodies, and toasting to the season under twinkling lights.
3. A glamorous throwback to a golden era of supper clubs and stage shows, where every course is a scene, every song a celebration, and the night unfolds like a classic holiday film.
The Holiday Social Club is bringing
A Great American Hoopla! to Petite Acres—
an evening of music, dinner, and a hoopla of a performance
inspired by Catskills-era entertainment with a modern twist.
The night begins on the Great Lawn with an elevated long table dinner that's equal parts 4th of July Barbecue and supper club brought to you by Skip's. Expect lawn games and live music at golden hour. Then, we’ll move inside for The Great American Hoopla!—a musical revue created and performed by The Holiday Social Club, full of laughter and nostalgia, taking us back to simpler times.
You will enjoy live professional musical revue with Chicago and New York Broadway level actors/singers/dancers doing a one of a kind show that will lift your spirits, might open your eyes, and will have you and your friends wanting to come back for more.
The entire Hoopla includes:
Dinner, wine with dinner, cash bar a specialty cocktail and one of kind theatre experience!
OR
Half a HOOPLA includes:
Show only, dessert after, and a cash bar. Arrive at 8:00pm for Half the HOOPLA!
Think: a nod to summer traditions, a touch of The Holiday, and a night designed to be shared.
Join us from 6:00–10:30 for a one-of-a-kind evening
celebrating connection, creativity, and 250 years of independence.
Need a Place to stay?
There is still room at Petite Acres
What is All the HOOPLA?
Synopsis
The Great American Hoopla!
When a certain Commander-in-Chief seizes the microphone and refuses to give it back, what follows is one raucous red-white-and-blue spectacular that puts the “great” back in “Great American Songbook”. Whether it wants to be there or not.
Part USO show, part rock concert, part fever dream. Five performers and a live band tear through the American canon. From Andrews Sisters classics and Irving Berlin tearjerkers to Creedence Clearwater Revival, Don McLean, and everything red, white, and unhinged in between.
The ghosts of presidents past have opinions. A certain Russian has crashed the party. And before the night is over, everyone who walked in unsure of how to feel proud of this country just might walk out differently.
One hour. Live music. Shameless spectacle. Blind optimism welcome.
Featuring Sophie Dimitroff, Kevin Kuska, Max Mckune, Sawyer Pierce, Annie Yokom and a live band. Presented at Petite Acres only, New Buffalo, Michigan.
Soh Darling is a Chicago-based singer whose sound blends jazz, soul, and R&B. After studying music at The Chicago Academy for the Arts and vocal jazz at USC, she toured internationally with Noname and now brings her love of rich vocals and nostalgia to live performance and original music.
Sawyer Pierce is a Chicago based professional actor and can be seen in such films as Clown Song (2025), The Art of Sweeping Under the Rug (2022), Barry (2016) and Maze Runner (2014). Sawyer has also worked as an associate producer in the film industry as well as an acting coach for Marriott Theatre's high school musical theatre Boot Camp. Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA in acting, Sawyer’s also thrives in the hospitality industry and throws a mean party.
Kevin Kuska is performer and voice teacher based out of Chicago, IL. He was most recently seen on the National Tour of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man. Regional credits include: Billy Elliott, Beautiful, The Full Monty (Paramount Theatre), Cinderella (Drury Lane Theatre), TYA Cinderella and Joseph (Marriott Theatre), Children of Eden In Concert (Broadway in Chicago), and Beauty and the Beast (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre). He holds his Masters of Voice Pedagogy and is the owner of an online voice studio - Kuska Studios.
Annie Yokom is a Chicago based professional actor, singer, and dancer. She was last seen in the Marriott Theatre production of Cinderella and has performed at the Marriott in James and the Giant Peach and GYPSY! She is an Ambassador of Michael Feinstein’s Great American Songbook Foundation (54 Below, The Palladium, Lowe’s Regency, Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts) Credits include: Judy Garland in Beyond The Rainbow (Actors Theatre of Indiana) (Farmers Alley Theatre), Kragtar! (54 Below) (TNNY) Julie Jordan in Carousel (Wagon Wheel Theatre). Chicago Academy for the Arts alum and BFA in Musical Theatre from Carnegie Mellon University. Her screen credits include Young Veronica in the television show, Prison Break, and the film The Narrative by Dalvin Reynolds.
Annie is a member of of the Actors Equity Association.
Max McKune is a Chicago-based actor who has appeared onstage with Hell in a Handbag Productions, Rest of the Wood Theater, The Parker Players Theater, and in several independent film projects. He is an actor/director with Sweetback Productions, and will be directing Sam Shepard's Geography of a Horse Dreamer (featuring Sawyer Pierce!) this fall. When he's not acting, you can find him on stage as the frontman of Ivy Drip. He's thrilled to be making his debut with The Holiday Social Club.
Holiday Dinner Theatre
(We also call it Dinner & A Show!)
"The Holidays", Valentines, Spring/Easter, 4th of July, and Halloween.
We are excited to bring old world glamour vintage dinner theatre experience to Southwest Michigan communities, that takes you back to a simpler time.
You know what I am talking about, cheese and crackers and a relish tray with your cocktail . Yes…a little like the musical Holiday Inn/White Chritmas…campy…but also nostalgic, with a modern twist. Holiday Inn meets SNL, meets a Cabaret, meets a USO tour show. You never know what you are going to get. Each show is written especially for The Holiday Social Club by seasoned musical theatre comedy writers and collaborators.
You will enjoy live professional music with Chicago and New York Broadway level actors/singers/dancers doing a one of a kind show that will lift your spirits, might open your eyes, and will have you and your friends wanting to come back for more.
Get ready for a unique experience of supper and live musical entertainment
that brings out the best of six holidays throughout the year.
This season we are proud to present
along with Petite Acres five Holiday shows.
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Inaugural Dinner & A Show on Fourth of July 2026 “A Great American Hoopla,” celebrating 250 years of Independence
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Halloween October 30, 2026
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“The Holidays” December 18,19, 20, 2026
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Valentines February 13, 2027
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Spring April 9,10,11, 2026
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Fourth of July 2027 - July 2, 2027
