A trip back in time: Show depicts Christmas in the 1880s
IV Leader, Dec 7, 2006
Illinois Valley Community College’s Music and Theatre
Department will hold its Victorian Holiday Celebration this year at both the
Reddick Mansion in Ottawa and the Hegeler Carus Mansion in La Salle.
These winter holiday settings will depict how guests
celebrated in the late 1880s with songs, costumes and characters that lived
during that time.
Both mansions have been decorated and portrayed as though the
actual owners still live there, so the community can meet the Reddick’s and
Hegeler’s who occupied these historic Illinois Valley residences.
Performances at the Hegeler Carus Mansion will be Thursday,
Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., Friday, Dec. 8 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec.
9 at 4 p.m., 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 10 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Shows at
Reddick Mansion were Dec. 1-3.
Approximately 30 IVCC students and residents of the IVCC
district will perform in this winter chorale concert.
Performers include Jennifer Wallin, Amanda Sedlock, Becky
Martin, Kara Kozlowski, Melissa Burgett, Robert Gibson, Robert Calhan, Michael
Lewis, Bijan roumi, Steve Kwiateck, Maridith Donahue, Rae Lathrop, Mary Heitmann,
Melissa Taylor, Heather Von Newmann, Renee Lapa, and Karen Zavada.
The show is open to the public and price of a ticket is $14.
For more information contact David Allan Kuester at 224.0279 or Professor Norm
Engstrom at 224-0352. To reserve a seat, phone 224-487.