Holiday Concert and Toy Drive The Colonial Theater in association with The Pa Jazz Alliance & The Scranton Jazz Festival presents: The Swinging Jazz Nutcracker Suite performed by the Emmy-nominated Scranton Jazz Festival Big Band directed by Maestro Marko Marcinko, with music arranged and imagined by Milton “Shorty” Rogers and Duke Ellington. This exciting 17-piece jazz orchestra will take you on a holiday journey transporting you back to the Big Band era where Tchaikovsky meets Rogers and Ellington! By a bizarre stroke of luck in May of 1960, we now have some amazing jazz versions of the the iconic ballet including Sugar Plum Fairy, Waltz of The Flowers, The Arabian Dance, and The Tea Dance and more. Hosted by singer Amy Banks and cultural arts aficionado turned state congressman Joe Ciresi
$35 and $25