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Show SOUTHWEST SERIES 'A Christmas Carol" to be performed ywnr- One of Southwest Series in. n. . n wn )!. ' most ; :: 4 ambitious presentations is just around the cornerl On Tuesday, Nov. 30, 8:00 p.m. A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Charles Dickens famous story, will be enacted as a stage musical in the Dixie High School Auditorium, directed by John Holly. This production has a home with the Music Theatre of Wichita, Kansas, where Charles Jones, Artistic Director of the Omaha Community Playhouse, and others mounted this show, which includes a cast of more than 20 performers plus a production crew. It features actors, singers and musicians who will present a panoply of traditional Christmas carols interwoven within the timeless Scrooge story which features such beloved characters from Dickens work as Bob Cratchit, Jacob Marley, the little Cratchits, and the Ghosts Christmas Present and Past. The play consists of two acts with a single intermission and does include scenes you will remember - a narrow street in the old city of London on Christmas Eve, inside Scrooges counting house, Scrooges bedchamber, Cratchits home, Christmas yet to come, Cratchits home on Christmas morning. of J Playwright Jones, who adapted the Dickens story for the stage, has taken one major liberty (everything else remaining faithful to Dickens): he has moved the time forty years forward to 1886 in order to make the musical consistent with secular English Christmas customs - the German Christmas Tree had become an English custom ; costume silhouettes from the 1880s created a better Dickens Christmas look. Jones says further, The produc tion has been complimented repeatedly by those saying that the show looked like Christmas Cards, like Christmas should be, like Christmas in your mind when you were a child. The credit for this wizardry must go to my colleague, James Othuse, whose talent as a designer can frequendy make dreams come true! And Dickens says of his A I have CHRISTMAS CAROL, endeavored in this Ghostly little Music Faculty Concert Scheduled vide a beautiful variety of musical favorites that will be a treat to both young and old alike. The concert will feature Gary Caldwell and his trumpet; Howard Putnam, baritone; Shelley Caldwell at the piano; Mrs. Roene DiFiore, vocal and piano and Dr. Ron Garner and his French horn. Mrs. Ann Marie Rogers, president of the womens association said recently, This concert has a tradition of being an outstanding and entertaining evening--sbring your families and enjoy some wonderful en tertainment. Tickets are $6.00 per family, $2.00 for adults and $1.00 for students and may be purchased in advance at R & K Bookstore or at the door, the night of performance. The concert is sponsored by the book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their house pleasandy, an no one wish to lay it. Series officers and Southwest board members hope this program will make a significant contribution to a Merry Christmas for all those who choose to attend this production. Call Bob Dalton at Dixie College for further informadon. Upcoming Events NOVEMBER 20: Basketball - CSI - here - 7 :30 Religion Series Institute - 7 :30 NOVEMBER Play - FAC Auditorium The Male Animal 16-2- 0: NOVEMBER Basketball Tournament - 8:15 - Phoenix 24-2- o Pictured above are Dixie College music faculty members Ron Garner, Howard Putnam, Roene DiFiore, Gary Caldwell, and Shelley Caldwell. The Dixie College music faculty will be presenting their annual on concert "Harvest of Melody November 29, at 7:00 p.m. in the little theatre of the Fine Arts Center. The concert will pro- Monday, Dixie College Womens Association to raise funds that will be used to complete the portraits of all the past presidents of Dixie College. NOVEMBER 26: St. George Temple Christmas lighting ceremony - 7:00. NOVEMBER 29: Music Faculty Recital Theatre p.m. - FAC Little 7-- 9 NOVEMBER 30: Musical Theatre - High School 8 p.m. - A Christmas Carol. - 8 |