This winter, the Basie Academy’s student productions provided our student performers with a comprehensive experience that took them from refining performance skills to rehearsals to now a culminating final professionally mounted production on the Basie Center stage!

A whimsical reinvention of Dickens’ most beloved Christmas story in wacky rhymed couplets. With zoot fruited juices and binka bird geese, from Bed-Headed Fred to Timmy Loo Hoo, this tale of glorious holiday cheer is similar to something Dr. Seuss might have come up with — if he ever had his way with the story…