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DECEMBER 9, 2017<br />
Big Band Christmas<br />
George Maurer Holiday Show visits Clay County — SEE PAGE 10<br />
ONE MAN,<br />
MANY CHARACTERS<br />
Dickinson County<br />
Nature Center hosts<br />
tots class on Dec. 13<br />
— SEE PAGE 5<br />
Harold Hynick offers up<br />
“A Christmas Carol” at SCT<br />
— SEE PAGE 6<br />
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The Dickinson County Nature Center will host a Nature Tots Class on Wednesday, Dec. 13. The theme of this month’s class is “Discover Dinos.”<br />
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“A Christmas Carol” will<br />
be onstage at SCT on Dec. 15<br />
“A Tuna Christmas” is onstage<br />
at Olde Towne Dinner Theatre<br />
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Films: George Maurer Big Band<br />
Holiday show in Spencer on Dec. 14<br />
Screen: New releases for the big<br />
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Contents | 3<br />
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Side Trips<br />
The first holiday greeting card arrived in<br />
our mailbox on December 1. I’m talking<br />
REAL greeting card, here, not a cyber style<br />
mass greeting.<br />
Now I don’t complain<br />
when we receive<br />
email or text message<br />
greetings, but they<br />
aren’t the same as the<br />
honest-to-goodness<br />
Christmas cards delivered<br />
by the US Postal<br />
Service.<br />
Through the years<br />
I’ve kept photo cards<br />
and personalized holiday<br />
letters — not all<br />
of them, certainly, but<br />
ones from old friends<br />
MYRNA<br />
WAGNER<br />
and family we seldom see. Each December<br />
as I pull out the bin of wrapping paper and<br />
ribbons, I am greeted with the photos and<br />
cards, and off I go down memory lane.<br />
With nearly three decades of collected<br />
items, some of the youngsters pictured<br />
in the earliest years are now married and<br />
working on families of their own. Others<br />
have since left this earth and are celebrating<br />
Christmas with the King.<br />
I have a few relatives that still take the<br />
time to personally handwrite a note or<br />
include a letter in each card they send out.<br />
What a treat that is! And their penmanship<br />
is actually lovely and legible. A lost art these<br />
days.<br />
The Christmas cards our family sends this<br />
year will (hopefully) include a brief update<br />
on our lives, but I can guarantee they won’t<br />
be hand-written or even hand-addressed. If<br />
I were to tackle such a project I would have<br />
had to begin at the beginning of October<br />
and likely the last folks wouldn’t receive<br />
their cards until Valentine’s Day.<br />
My current approach isn’t quite as personal,<br />
but my cards will hopefully arrive on<br />
time. (Fingers crossed.)<br />
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Nature | 5<br />
KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER<br />
DINO<br />
discovery<br />
Dickinson County Nature Center hosts tots class Dec. 13<br />
It’s dino time.<br />
The Dickinson County Nature<br />
Center is going to the dinosaurs<br />
for its next Nature Tots program on<br />
Wednesday, Dec. 13. The Nature Tots<br />
programming is aimed at ages 2-5 and<br />
is held the second Wednesday of each<br />
month at both 10:30 a.m. and 1:30<br />
p.m.<br />
Each session is limited to 25 toddlers,<br />
and spaces fill up quickly, so<br />
please call the Dickinson County<br />
Nature Center to register prior to the<br />
program date. According to Bryanna<br />
Kuhlman at the time of the interview,<br />
the 10:30 a.m. session was already full<br />
but there was still room in the 1:30<br />
p.m. session.<br />
Every Nature Tots program features<br />
a unique theme and the theme for<br />
December is “Discover Dinos.”<br />
The theme seems perfect for toddlers.<br />
“We decided to do a Discover Dinos<br />
theme, because all kids are naturally<br />
curious about dinosaurs,” said Kuhlman,<br />
the environmental education<br />
coordinator at the Dickinson County<br />
Nature Center.<br />
The program will feature both some<br />
indoor and outdoor fun.<br />
“If the weather cooperates, kids<br />
will be following dinosaur ‘tracks’ to<br />
a dino ‘nest’ to collect a dinosaur egg<br />
(bath bomb). We will set up two sets<br />
of tracks around the property that<br />
have signs of dino life,” Kuhlman<br />
said. “Once they find their dino egg,<br />
we will come back to the nature center<br />
to hatch our eggs.”<br />
The kids will also have a story<br />
time where they’ll listen to the book<br />
“Dinosaurs Dinosaurs.” They’ll also<br />
see just how large dinosaurs were by<br />
seeing a life-sized footprint from a<br />
dinosaur.<br />
After going outside to track the dinosaurs<br />
and find their dinosaur eggs,<br />
they’ll return to the nature center to<br />
“hatch” and identify the dinosaur that<br />
hatches from their egg.<br />
“I am looking forward to the dino<br />
egg/nest hunt,” Kuhlman said. “I feel<br />
like our students will have a lot of fun<br />
following our dino ‘tracks’ and finding<br />
dino ‘eggs.’”<br />
Dinosaurs might not be a part of<br />
today’s nature scene, but learning<br />
about the creatures that used to roam<br />
the planet is important, according to<br />
Kuhlman.<br />
“I hope that our young students will<br />
gain an appreciation for these prehistoric<br />
creatures through our nest hunt,”<br />
Kuhlman said. “Students will also be<br />
able to identify their dino and learn<br />
about the different types of dinos that<br />
once roamed our planet.” F<br />
At a Glance:<br />
WHAT: Nature Tots: Discover Dinos<br />
WHERE: Dickinson County Nature<br />
Center, 2279 170th Street, Okoboji<br />
WHEN: Wednesday, Dec. 13<br />
COST: Free<br />
CONTACT: 712-336-6352<br />
ONLINE: dickinsoncountyconservationboard.com<br />
Okoboji | Iowa
DECEMBER 9, 2017 | <strong>DISCOVER</strong>!<br />
6 | Playbill<br />
KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER<br />
One man,<br />
many<br />
characters<br />
Harold Hynick offers up<br />
“A Christmas Carol” at SCT<br />
At a Glance :<br />
WHAT: One-man performance of “A<br />
Christmas Carol”<br />
WHERE: Spencer Community Theatre,<br />
518 1st Ave. E. Spencer<br />
WHEN: 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 15<br />
COST: $15 for adults and $9 for<br />
students<br />
CONTACT: 712-262-7336<br />
ONLINE: www.sctplayhouse.org<br />
Scrooge. Bob Cratchit. Tiny Tim.<br />
These are iconic and beloved<br />
characters. They often leap off<br />
the pages of Charles Dickens’s “A<br />
Christmas Carol” onto the big screen<br />
and onto the stage this time of year.<br />
On Friday, Dec. 15 at 7:30 p.m.,<br />
Spencer Community Theatre will be<br />
playing host to a very unique offering<br />
of this classic Christmas tale.<br />
A one-man show.<br />
This one hour, one-man version of<br />
“A Christmas Carol” was adapted and<br />
will be performed by Harold Hynick.<br />
He will portray more than 20 characters<br />
including Scrooge, Marley’s<br />
Ghost, Fezziwig, Mrs. Cratchit and<br />
Tiny Tim.<br />
“Harold Hynick is originally from<br />
Iowa and is a theatre professor at<br />
Missouri Valley College. He has developed<br />
his own production of ‘A<br />
Christmas Carol’ where he plays all<br />
the major character by himself. It’s<br />
really spectacular,” said Rusty Ruth,<br />
the executive artistic director at the<br />
Spencer Community Theatre.<br />
The way that Hynick portrays all<br />
these various characters is a sight to<br />
see, according to Ruth.<br />
“He changes his physicality, his<br />
voice, his characteristics. It’s fascinating<br />
to watch him and it’s another<br />
great way to usher in the holiday season,”<br />
Ruth said.<br />
In addition to his performance on<br />
Friday night, Dec. 15, Hynick will be<br />
hosting a free improv class for ages<br />
middle school and up from 10 a.m.-3<br />
p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 16.<br />
“You have to be a master of improv<br />
to do a show like this and we are lucky<br />
enough to have received a Renaissance<br />
grant from the city of Spencer to help<br />
bring Hynick in for this performance<br />
and this master class,” Ruth said. “If<br />
anyone is interested in the class, space<br />
is limited. It’s free of charge but call<br />
the theatre to reserve<br />
a spot if you are interested.”<br />
Hynick has been<br />
performing this oneman<br />
version of “A<br />
Christmas Carol” as<br />
a way to fundraise to<br />
help send his students<br />
to the Kennedy Center<br />
American College Theater<br />
Festival regional<br />
meeting, according to<br />
Ruth.<br />
Whether you love<br />
Dickens, Christmas,<br />
theatre, or all three<br />
Ruth says that this show<br />
is one to put at the top<br />
of your to-do list.<br />
“I’m excited for audiences<br />
just to be able<br />
to see this same story<br />
in a new way. He’s not<br />
reinventing it. By doing it all by himself<br />
he’s breathing a breath of fresh air<br />
for people who love that show,” Ruth<br />
said. “It’s such a great story. It’s about<br />
redemption and understanding what<br />
the holidays are really all about. It’s a<br />
perfect vehicle for people to get more<br />
into the spirit of the season.” F<br />
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Playbill | 9<br />
RYLAN HOWE | STAFF WRITER<br />
a Glance:<br />
WHAT: “A Tuna Christmas”<br />
WHERE: Olde Towne Dinner Theatre,<br />
121 South Main St., Worthing,<br />
SD<br />
WHEN: Dec. 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17,<br />
28, 29, 30, 31, and Jan. 4, 5, 6.<br />
Jan. 7 is dessert-only matinee.<br />
COST: $40/dinner performance,<br />
$18/dessert-only matinee<br />
CONTACT: 605-372-4653<br />
ONLINE: www.oldetownetheatre.<br />
org<br />
Dinner Menu<br />
Act One<br />
Dinner Roll<br />
Tomato Bisque Soup<br />
House Salad (choice of dressing)<br />
‘A Tuna Christmas’<br />
Enjoy holiday hi-jinks with the characters of Tuna, Texas<br />
A<br />
small Texas town takes center<br />
stage in the holiday production<br />
this winter at Olde Towne Dinner<br />
Theatre.<br />
The fictional community of Tuna,<br />
Texas is the third-smallest town in<br />
the state and around the holiday<br />
season most of the action centers<br />
around the annual Christmas Yard<br />
Display Contest.<br />
Guests will get to know a wealth of<br />
interesting, funny and strange characters<br />
during the course of dinner<br />
and the show, “A Tuna Christmas.”<br />
There are 14 more scheduled performances<br />
between now and Jan. 7<br />
and tickets are $40 for a dinner performance<br />
or $18 for a dessert-only<br />
matinee.<br />
“This is a very fun show,” said<br />
John J. Boe, artistic director for Olde<br />
Towne Dinner Theatre. “I’ve been<br />
wanting to do this one here for a long<br />
time. I did it for Readers Theatre in<br />
high school and also in college. It’s a<br />
fun, funny and mostly light-hearted<br />
comedy.”<br />
The play is part of trilogy written<br />
by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed<br />
Howard.<br />
“A Tuna Christmas” is the second<br />
play in the trilogy. The first one,<br />
“Greater Tuna,” has been performed<br />
at Olde Towne in the past.<br />
Both were performed at the White<br />
House by Williams and Sears for<br />
President George H.W. Bush and Barbara<br />
Bush.<br />
“The guys who wrote it are from<br />
Texas and it’s partly based on their<br />
experiences,” Boe said. “The unique<br />
part is that two people play all the<br />
characters in the cast.”<br />
That’s more than 20 characters for<br />
two people. Which means lots of<br />
quick costume changes and lots of<br />
fun, for both the actors and the audience.<br />
“It’s a really character driven show<br />
with these strange and funny characters<br />
that almost all have their own<br />
redeeming values,” Boe said.<br />
The common thread through it<br />
all is the yard display competition,<br />
which has also subject to vandalism<br />
at the hands of a “Christmas phantom”<br />
for years.<br />
Branching out from those connecting<br />
plotlines are the stories of the<br />
numerous characters themselves.<br />
One is trying to end his probation<br />
and leave town for good, while<br />
another is trying to keep a family<br />
together for Christmas.<br />
There are radio disc jockeys, business<br />
owners and entrepreneurs, waitresses<br />
and even a community theatre<br />
director, all with their own unique,<br />
and often humorous, stories to tell.<br />
“Family is a big part of one of the<br />
storylines and there is a lot of laughter,”<br />
Boe said. “It will be a good time<br />
and an amazing night with the food<br />
and the show. With so much going<br />
on, it’s nice during the holidays to be<br />
able to just kick back and laugh.” F<br />
Act Two<br />
(choice of one of the following)<br />
Demi Glaze Steak<br />
Saucy Cranberry Chicken<br />
Lemon Pepper Pangasius<br />
Props<br />
Lemon Garlic Beans<br />
Au Gratin Potatoes<br />
Finale<br />
Crème de menthe Cheesecake<br />
Worthing<br />
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At a Glance:<br />
WHAT: George Maurer Big Band<br />
Holiday Show<br />
WHERE: Clay County Fair & Events<br />
Center, Spencer<br />
WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 14 at 7:30<br />
p.m.<br />
COST: $17/$22<br />
CONTACT: 712-580-3000<br />
ONLINE: www.claycountyfair.com<br />
More Info:<br />
Audiences across the country<br />
know George as a pianist/<br />
keyboardist who has played his<br />
way from Congress to the Crickets.<br />
He has been called Minnesota’s<br />
premier jazz pianist and<br />
gained acclaim with the George<br />
Maurer Group, Trio and The 2nd<br />
New Originals as well as his solo<br />
work and collaborations with<br />
vocalists.<br />
But playing is just a small part of<br />
his repertoire. George has created<br />
original compositions for orchestra<br />
and ballet, big band and Bobby<br />
Vee. He writes original scores<br />
for film, theater and dance and has<br />
been called upon to arrange and<br />
produce music for an incredible diversity<br />
of projects including Twin<br />
Cities productions of “Swing!” and<br />
“Rent.”<br />
- From www.georgemaurer.com<br />
If you’re<br />
looking for<br />
two hours of<br />
really good<br />
Christmas<br />
music that’s<br />
what this is<br />
about.<br />
Jeremy Parsons<br />
RYLAN HOWE | STAFF WRITER<br />
Big Band Christmas<br />
George Maurer Holiday<br />
Show visits Clay County<br />
Fans of big band music have a date<br />
to circle on their calendar. Fans of<br />
Christmas music should circle the<br />
same date.<br />
The George Maurer Big Band<br />
Holiday Show is coming to the Clay<br />
County Fair & Events Center.<br />
The concert take place Thursday,<br />
Dec. 14 at 7:30 p.m. and tickets range<br />
from $17-22.<br />
“One goal we have every year is to<br />
do a Christmas show,” said Jeremy<br />
Parsons, CEO of the Clay County Fair<br />
& Events Center.<br />
“We’ve had Manheim Steamroller<br />
and The Beach Boys and this year we’ll<br />
have a 16-piece big band with vocalists<br />
and everything you experience<br />
with that.”<br />
The ensemble is led by pianist and<br />
composer George Maurer, who performs<br />
and collaborates with a variety<br />
of ensembles, such as his jazz group,<br />
trio and The 2nd New Originals.<br />
He’s performed for Congress and<br />
worked with Eric Clapton.<br />
Mauer has performed all over the<br />
country, and he's also no stranger to<br />
Spencer.<br />
“George Maurer has performed on<br />
the free stages at the fair a few different<br />
times,” Parsons said.<br />
“This performance will be a twohour<br />
fully Christmas show. It’s big<br />
band versions of Christmas hits and<br />
maybe some original pieces.”<br />
The band performs a range of musical<br />
styles from traditional jazz to<br />
swing, blues to bebop, involving a<br />
number of Christmas favorites such<br />
as “Oh Tannenbaum” and “Baby, It’s<br />
Cold Outside.”<br />
“If you’re looking for two hours of<br />
really good Christmas music that’s<br />
what this is about,” Parsons said.<br />
“With an affordable ticket price, if<br />
you’re looking to get out for a good<br />
Christmas-filled night, this is the<br />
night.”<br />
Big band and Christmas carols combine<br />
for a fanastic, fun-filled holiday<br />
show for the whole family. F<br />
Spencer | Iowa
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