The Performing Arts Association will present a Christmas show and a winter dance party this week.

“Away in the Basement: A Church Basement Ladies Christmas,” will be presented at 2 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Historic Missouri Theatre.

Performing Arts Association Executive Director Beth Sharp said the professional tour out of Minnesota has been very popular over the last few years in St. Joseph.

“It’s a musical comedy, theatrical performance,” Sharp said. “I think it’s popular if you’ve been involved in the church and know the group of ladies that usually do all the cooking and fixing up for the performances and stuff like that. It’s just all based on that kind of group and people say they relate to that, they say, ‘Oh gosh, that’s my mom.’”

On Saturday, November 19, John Mueller’s Winter Dance Party will be presented at the theatre.

Sharp said the performance is a tribute and re-creation of the performance that Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper put on in Clear Lake, Iowa, before the plane crash.

“Johnny Mueller, who pulled the show together, he actually played Buddy Holly on Broadway in the Buddy Holly story, so this is going to be a fantastic show,” Sharp said. “It’s pretty much a concert style where all three of them will come out and do individual concerts and then the group will come out and play together so it will be quite exciting it will be just like it was in the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, just before the plane crash.”

The concert performance will feature over two hours of hit songs from the 50s era including, “That’ll Be the Day,” “Peggy Sue,” “La Bamba,” and more.

For tickets and more information, call (816) 279-1225 or click here.