Aside from the season's magic top hats that bring frozen gargoyles to life, a majestic snowfall is the only part of winter that makes its biting frigidity bearable. Follow one boy's gravity-scoffing, mind-melting quest to find the missing fluffy flakes with today's Groupon for a ticket to Cirque du Soleil's Wintuk at Madison Square Garden. Choose one of the following ticketing options:

• For $60, you get one front-center orchestra seat to your choice of one of the following performances: Saturday, December 18 at 11 a.m.; Sunday, December 26 at 11 a.m.; or Sunday, December 26 at 7 p.m. (a $115 value).
• For $40, you get one side orchestra or mezzanine seat to your choice of one of the following performances: Saturday, December 18 at 11 a.m.; Sunday, December 26 at 11 a.m.; or Sunday, December 26 at 7 p.m.. (a $75 value).
• For $52, you get one front-center orchestra seat to your choice of one of the following performances: Wednesday, December 15 at 2:30 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, December 16 at 2:30 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.; Tuesday, December 21 at 3 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.; or Wednesday, December 22 at 3 p.m. (a $99 value).
• For $35, you get one side orchestra or mezzanine seat to your choice of one of the following performances: Wednesday, December 15 at 2:30 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, December 16 at 2:30 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.; Tuesday, December 21 at 3 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.; or Wednesday, December 22 at 3 p.m. (a $65 value).

Wintuk's story follows a boy name Jamie on a quest to restore snow to his home. To do so, he heads toward a magical place called Wintuk in the company of three quirky friends. Along the way, they encounter feats of amazing puppetry and human boundary-bursting stunts set to upbeat music, while also performing a few acrobatics of their own.

All told, Wintuk, currently in its final season in New York City, is a vicarious adrenaline rush that will boost the whole family's holiday spirit-o-meters back up from seasonal affective disorder to eggnoggy. Children will relate to the title character's mission, and grownups will be gobsmacked by the spectacle, despite their more advanced understanding of Newton's third law. Teenagers will pretend to hate it but secretly love it, telling no one until they're old enough to make it into a family tradition of their own.

Reviews

The New York Times and CurtainUp agree that Wintuk's acts are awe-inspiring. Ticketmaster users give the show an average of four stars.

• Though the plot is little more than an excuse to move from act to act, the performances are invariably impressive... Near the end of "Wintuk" two women (Kylee Maupoux and Anke van Engelshoven) engage in an acrobatic ballet suspended above the stage. Their performance is genuinely beautiful, a near-perfect blend of movement and music. – Ken Jaworowski, New York Times
• It was great! I didn't know that the curtains were curtains, they looked like ice. Fantastic acrobatics. Pretty costumes. – nettiebelle, Ticketmaster