A-State Jazz EnsemblesMichael Medrick, director

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Program:Jazz Lab EnsembleBloo Water Groovin’ – Michele Fernandez
Aces and Faces – Buck Clayton, arr. Myles Collins
It’s Always the Rain – Tom Kubis
Just Scratching’ the Surface – Duke Ellington

Jazz OrchestraMoon Walkin’ – Christine Jenson
Tour de Force – Dizzy Gillespie, arr. Phillip Michael Mossman
Down for the Double – Buck Clayton, trans. Alan Glasscock
Soy Lentman Show – Jacob Mann

The Plastics will take the Forum Theater stage for Mean Girls JR! This “fetch” musical is packed with keen wit, an undeniably catchy score, and a sincere message for everyone. Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the wild and vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. How will this naïve newbie rise to the top of the popularity pecking order? By taking on The Plastics, a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George. Cady and her friends devise a “Revenge Party” to end Regina’s reign with Cady going undercover as an aspiring Plastic. When the lines between the real Cady and her Plastic self get blurred, she must find her way back to herself and her true friends. From writer Tina Fey (30 Rock), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde) and composer Jeff Richmond (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Adapted from Fey’s 2004 blockbuster film and the Broadway smash hit, Mean Girls JR.