OPERA DINNER THEATER TO BE DEC. 3

The Opera Workshop at Southeast Missouri State University will present its annual dinner theater Dec. 3.

The theme of this year's event will be "Make Your Own Kind of Music."

It is organized by students in the Opera Workshop, faculty members and members of the community.

Proceeds go toward the production costs for this year's department of theater-department of music production of "Three Penny Opera."

The program will begin at 6 p.m. with cocktail music featuring harp and flutes, followed by a musical theater presentation from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats." Workshop director Louisa Panou-Takahashi and Jorgos Goumas also will present Greek folk music and dance.

The dinner menu includes holiday Waldorf salad, roast turkey and light mushroom gravy, cornbread dressing, herbed green beans, and cherry and apply cobbler for dessert.

Other musical performances will include opera selections by Mozart and Verdi, selections from "West Side Story" and "My Fair Lady," and favorites by James Taylor and the Beatles.

Last year's two-night event, a tribute to Leonard Bernstein, sold out.

Tickets are $19 each and are available from the department of music at (314) 651-2124.