Seventh graders will get the opportunity to see Ballet Fantastique’s performance of An American Christmas Carol on Thursday, December 14th. They will depart FRMS at 8:45 and return by 12:30 in time for lunch at school. Permission slips will go home on Monday, December 4th and need to be returned by Monday, December 11th. Students must have a signed permission slip in order to go- verbal permission will not be accepted for this trip.
“Ballet Fantastique’s sparkling holiday tradition, An American Christmas Carol is a reimagining of Charles Dickens’ beloved story in iconic post-WWII America with their original choreography set to the velvet voice of international chart-topping jazz singer—and Oregon sweetheart—Halie Loren. Retro-glam choreography fuses drama and humor as it weaves the story of penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformative quest.
Loren (double-nominated for multiple Independent Music Awards) sets the score with her winsome original arrangements of standards by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole. Actor Adam Goldthwaite joins the company as “Smokey Joe” Marley. Ballet Fantastique’s flagship American Christmas Carol is for the young and young at heart (post-sugarplum set included), and it promises to charm even the stoniest of humbug hearts.”
Here is a link to the permission slip: An American Christmas Carol Permission Slip
If you have an approved background history on file and would like to chaperone this field trip, please email Ms. Johnson at ojohnson@fernridge.k12.or.us
Field trips for Fern Ridge Middle School can only be paid for by fundraising- district funds cannot be used to pay for field trips. So thank you to everyone who participated in last year’s fundraising that made this year’s field trips possible.
For more information about Ballet Fantastique and this performance, please follow this link: http://www.balletfantastique.org/an-american-christmas-carol
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