BY: AMY DORSEY
Don't know how to celebrate this holiday season? With events like, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Moscow Ballet's "Great Russian Nutcracker" and a Yuletide Spectacular all you have to do is choose! There are many ways to celebrate the holiday season with the whole family, and just a sleigh ride away.
During turkey month, the Rep, Arkansas Arts Center, and Robinson Center Music Hall have some festive shows and a sale. "If You Sing It They Will Come: Songs from the Silver Screen" at the Repertory Theatre with the Young Arkansas Artists runs November 5-16. The Robinson Center Music Hall brings us Moscow Ballet's "Great Russian Nutcracker" on November 28. The Arkansas Arts Center's Christmas play will be "The Toymaker's Apprentice," creating magic November 28 through December 21. The Arkansas Arts Center Museum School facility and students will sell their original works on November 22.
As we await Santa's coming, major venues around the city know how to get ready for every child's favorite night. Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus tumbles into the Alltel Arena December 4-7. "Radio City Music Hall's Christmas Spectacular" kicks across the arena's stage on December 17 and 18. Then, Trans-Siberian Orchestra will rock the roof off Alltel on December 26. "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play" at the Rep will show us the true value of life December 5-28.
CARTI Auxiliary Festival of Trees will light up the State House Convention Center December 4-6. Also at the Convention Center, the Sugar Plum Ball on December 4, Breakfast with Santa on December 6, and the Christmas Showcase December 5-7.
Robinson Center Music Hall will dance and play for us with Ballet Arkansas' "The Nutcracker" December 6-7, Mannheim Steamroller: Christmas on December 10, and the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's annual Yuletide Spectacular December 19-20.
With all these events and more, you'll never be able to say you couldn't find a way to celebrate the holidays in Little Rock this year. For more information on these events go to the calendar page at www.alltelarena.com, www.therep.org, www.arkarts.com, and www.littlerock.com.
