At MCC, It's About the Holiday Drama

Always on Christmas night there was music. An uncle played the fiddle, a cousin sang "Cherry Ripe," and another uncle sang "Drake's Drum." It was very warm in the little house. Auntie Hannah, who had got on to the parsnip wine, sang a song about Bleeding Hearts and Death, and then another in which she said her heart was like a Bird's Nest; and then everybody laughed again; and then I went to bed. Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-colored snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, steady falling night. I turned the gas down, I got into bed. I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept. - from a child's Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas.

Holiday kudos go out to some of MCC's theatre students, who added to the frivolity and merriment in downtown Lowell recently by providing and performing theatrical readings (including Dylan Thomas' Christmas tale) to the downtown shoppers and hot chocolataholics.  Karen Oster, she of the performing arts school of wizardry, brought some of her students downtown to regale shoppers with performances over the weekend.  The reviews were good, so their classes are paying off!  More of their works can be seen in February's production of a Little Left of Centerfest.  Raise your egg nogs to Michael O'Malley, Robyn Ginsberg and Billy Higson!