We are decorated. We have gifts gathering under the tree.* Who cares that it's 60 degrees and balmy?
To make it feel even more like a holiday, we're launching a two-week festival of performances on stage and screen to celebrate the season - beginning Friday, December 16 at 8 p.m. with a return engagement by songstress Lisa Jason and friends.
“Our show is about wishes and dreams,” says Jason, a Chatham resident. “Especially around the holidays, we remember dreams we may have had as children, or those we have as adults. This show will take you on a holiday musical journey, through some of your favorite seasonal songs. It’s about friendship and love – Broadway and pop, and the opportunity for our audience to sing along.”
Tickets for her concert are $20 for adults, $15 for students.
Lisa Jason’s appearance will be followed on Sunday, December 18 at 3 p.m. by the Cape Cod Symphony Sound’s String & Wind Trio, blending the magical with the spiritual. Cellist Elizabeth Schultze, flutist Claude Colbert and violinist Sungmin Yoo will perform festive holiday favorites including the Christmas Carol and The Nutcracker, along with selections from Haydn and Mozart.
Tickets for Symphony Sounds are $29 for adults and $15 for children.
On Tuesday, December 20 at 4:30 p.m., WHAT presents on its screen the Royal Ballet’s Nutcracker, followed on Friday, December 23 with the Metropolitan Opera’s wickedly funny production of Hansel and Gretel will be presented at 4:30 p.m.
The Metropolitan Opera returns on Tuesday, December 27 at 4:30 p.m. in a broadcast of the Magic Flute.
Tickets for these Met Opera broadcasts are $24 for adults, $22 for seniors and $15 for students.
The holiday season is capped by WHAT’s first-ever Children’s Film Festival from December 28 to December 31.
The festival includes:
- Azur & Asmar at 4:30 p.m. and The Storytelling Show at 6:30 pm on December 28;
- The Secret of Kells at 4:30 p.m. and Tahaan at 6:45 p.m. on December 29;
- Eleanor's Secret at 4:30 p.m. and Mia & The Magoo at 6:30 p.m. on December 30;
- and the festival’s closing event featuring Charlie Chaplin shorts and a live band at 1 p.m. on December 31. Tickets for all Children’s Film Festival shows are $7.50.
More on Lisa Jason & Friends:
At only 5 feet 2, Lisa Jason sure can belt out a tune. A former opening act for bands up and down the East Coast, she has settled in Chatham, where she grew up to raise her own children.
“On the road, my style was akin to Pat Benatar and Cyndi Lauper. The audience didn’t know how to react when I started singing. How could so big a voice come from such a small person?” she recalled.
The road was no place to raise children,” she said. “I wanted to have them grow up on the Cape, near my parents and surrounded by the sea.” Her father is Richard Sullivan, retired dean of student services at Cape Cod Community College and founder of the Southeastern Massachusetts March of Dimes.
One of Jason’s signature songs, “Beautiful Child,” has been adopted by the March of Dimes, constantly played at fundraisers and events such as the National Volunteer Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C – often sung by her personally. “Beautiful Child has reached thousands of families, giving them hope or helping them heal,” said Jason. In 2007, she was the Massachusetts March of Dimes Ambassador.
She also is committed locally to Children’s Cove, which will be the recipient of a fundraising wine-tasting before the concert, so show up at hour early for wine, accompanied by desserts from PB Boulangerie and food from Ptown Parties.
Children’s Cove is a nonprofit located on Cape Cod to support victims of children’s sexual abuse and their non-offending family members.
Jason will be joined on stage by her daughter and several other accomplished local high school singers, Celeste Howe, Richard Jay Sullivan and Jared Hagen, as well as Bill Duffy on piano, Laird Boles on bass, Bart Weisman on drums, Bruce Abbot on sax, flute and clarinet and special guest Brian Morris on guitar.
Celeste Howe lives in West Barnstable and is a professional singer and actress. Her most recent theatrical roles include, Rona in “Spelling Bee” at The Harwich Junior Theatre, Seniora Leonata in “Much Ado About Nothing” and Abigail Adams in “1776,” both presented at The Cotuit Center for the Arts. She has performed many one woman cabaret shows in New York City, Boston and Newport.
Richard Jay Sullivan has appeared in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Class Act,
Sunday in the Park with George and Little Women (HJT). Directing credits include Born
Yesterday (Cape Rep) Secret Garden, Man of La Mancha, A Grand Night for Singing, Bye Bye Birdie, and Meeting Judy .
Jared Hagan has appeared at Cape Repetory Theater including Avenue Q and Xanadu. The Drowsy Chaperone, The Wizard of Oz, How I Became a Pirate, A Class Act, My Fair Lady, The Emperor's New Clothes, Wintertime, A Year with Frog & Toad, Ragtime, Seussical, Steel Pier,Urinetown, Lady in the Dark, The Myster of Edwin Drood, and four Sea Pine's reviews.
*WHAT is collecting small, gently used toys to donate to the Lower Cape Outreach Council's Santa's Workshop.
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