Premiere presents 10th year of holiday productions at the Avo

VISTA — In 1996, Premiere Productions staged a Christmas Review in Vista’s Avo Theater entitled “A Christmas Celebration in Song.” The cast consisted of 25 people between the ages of 10 and 70 years of age. (Three of the cast members from that first year went on to appear in various Broadway productions.) This was the beginning of the Christmas Festival.

“Our second year we decided to stage ‘A Christmas Carol,’” said Premiere owner and director Randall Hickman. “I had always wanted to play Scrooge. I was only 33 years old at the time but I knew this was a character I identified with. And when...