I don’t know about the rest of you, but I have three whole boxes full of lightly used costumes that I’d like to get rid of. What with several dress-up events a year, I’m just guessing that some of our dance regulars are the same. So, in conjunction with our […]
The Fezziwig Ball has come and gone, and we’re looking forward to a new year of dancing. The January dance is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 12th, at St. Mark’s Lutheran School Gym(1821 North 90th Street). Doors open at 6:30 and dancing starts promptly at 7pm. Dance card for Jan. […]
In came a fiddler with a music-book, and went up to the lofty desk, and made an orchestra of it, and tuned like fifty stomach-aches. “Old Fezziwig, clapping his hands to stop the dance, cried out, “Well done!” and the fiddler plunged his hot face into a pot of porter, […]
Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. A frosty rime was on his […]
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ‘Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. […]
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Those of you who have been to the annual OldDD Fezziwig Ball know that our Dickens cast is amazing. They look the part in their historical costumes(no polyester!). They memorize their lines and deliver them in excellent form. Jacob Marley and Scrooge knocked the socks off the crowd last year […]
OldDDP performed again at Fort Atkinson SHP on Sept. 1st. The weather was a bit warmer than we like for dancing outside, but no harm done and all had fun. Next Saturday, Sept. 8th, OldDDP will be in Council Bluffs at the Dodge House performing at a tea.
Volunteers: We’re thankful for them. We need need them. Specifically: The front door: We consistently have the need for a friendly greeter at the money table who can welcome people, point out information, give change and provide safe-keeping for the money box. Obviously this should be a trustworthy and social […]