The Muppets perform the classic Dickens holiday tale, with Kermit the Frog playing Bob Cratchit, the put-upon clerk of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine). Other Muppets, like Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and Fozzie Bear, weave in and out of the story, while Scrooge receives visits from spirits from Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future. They show him the error of his self-serving ways with the hope that the miserable old man will embrace the season of the heart and, in that particular time of caring, make his love last all year. GET TICKETS!  

The University Band presents a concert with marches, contemporary concert band pieces, holiday music, and traditional Notre Dame favorites. The University Band is a concert band for current students and staff, faculty, and alumni of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s, and Holy Cross. For tickets, call 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

Based on the novel Red Alert by Peter George, Stanley Kubrick's Cold War masterpiece drops you right at the height of the tensions between the USSR and the United States, world destruction literally at folks' fingertips. And General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) has itchy fingers. Convinced that the Soviets have infiltrated America's "vital essence," the crazed Ripper gives the go code to the 843rd bomb wing to attack the Soviet Union, setting in motion a series of darkly hilarious vignettes involving gung-ho soldiers, wacky generals, spying Soviets, drunken premiers, battles with soda machines, fights in the War Room, and the Soviet's top-secret Doomsday Machine. GET TICKETS  

The Notre Dame Jazz Band program features two "traditional" jazz ensembles and a New Orleans Brass Band. The bands perform a wide variety of music, ranging from jazz classics and vocal selections, to new works and transcriptions. For tickets, call 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

The Notre Dame Collegium Musicum presents the second of three concerts featuring the complete motets of J.S. Bach. The program will include the motets Der Geist hilft unsere Schwachheit auf, BWV 226 and Fürchte dich nicht, BWV 228, along Motets by Lassus and Gabrieli from the church service repertory of Bach's time in Leipzig. For tickets, call 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

Notre Dame Children's Choir perform songs of the season in its annual Lessons and Carols, featuring the younger ensembles: Cherub, Cantabile and Descant Choirs.  Originally published at sma.nd.edu.