Rodeo Drive Holiday Lighting Celebration

In what has become a holiday tradition, thousands will gather on the palm tree-dotted Rodeo Drive to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season in style at the Rodeo Drive Holiday Lighting Celebration.

The 2025 kickoff event returns November 13, 2025, encompassing all three blocks of Rodeo Drive.

This year’s theme, Enchanted Holiday Dreams, takes inspiration from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Ballet — celebrating imagination, courage, and love through the timeless story of Clara and her magical Christmas Eve adventure.

Adorned in shades of gold, blue, red, and white, the center median will feature Nutcracker-inspired and ballerina ornaments set beneath the sparkle of lights cascading from palm to palm. Wrapped tree trunks and glistening white rose bushes will bring a romantic, dreamlike glow to all.

The special evening which is free and open to all, will feature live performances by award-winning local and international artists:

• Billboard-charting recording artist, and Broadway star Chris Mann
• Australian Superstar Hugh Sheridan, James Tormé, the male jazz vocalist also known as “The Prince of Jazz”
• Internationally acclaimed, award-winning guzheng performer, composer, recording artist and guqin artist Bei Bei.

The street will come alive with a whoosh of Nutcracker-inspired and Sugarplum skaters and the pirouettes of stilt ballerinas. Nutcracker “Mouse King” holiday helpers will be on hand, joined by roaming puppets, animated life-size sweets, and the sound of carolers. Mother Ginger will surprise with performers appearing unexpectedly from under the swathes of large-scale costumes.

The celebration concludes with the highly anticipated arrival of Santa Claus and a spectacular fireworks finale lighting up the night sky. This City of Beverly Hills and Rodeo Drive Committee-sponsored holiday program is free and open to the public.

The event takes place rain or shine.

Rodeo Drive’s Holiday Lights will be on display until January 5, 2026.