A Really Big Shoe Six

“A Musical Journey through the Golden Age of Television”

Music, in the form of singing and dancing, played an integral part in the first 20+ years of the history of television. Many of the early shows actually started on radio, and then switched to TV in the late ’40s and early ’50s.

“A Really Big Shoe Six” will take the audience on an historic musical journey, starting with the Howdy Doody Show and ending with Carol Burnett hosting the reunion of the Mickey Mouse Club. In-between we’ll visit shows like Milton Berle’s Texaco Star Theater, Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts, Your Hit Parade, Ford Theater, Ozzie and Harriett, Jackie Gleason, Sing-a-Long with Mitch, Hee Haw, Hullabaloo, the Monkees, American Bandstand, the Hollywood Palace, and Ted Mack’s Amateur Hour.

The talented members of Entertainment Explosion will revive songs actually performed on these shows. There will be music from George Burns, the Andrew Sisters, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Patti Page, Dean Martin, Julie London, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, Ricky Nelson, Perry Como, The Brothers Four and the Kingston Trio, Mrs. Miller, and oh so many more.

It will be a non-stop program of songs and memories. On-stage and backstage almost 60 members of EE, all ages 55-85, will wow you with their talent, smiles, and spirit. The “drive” that has kept them rehearsing since late September is not just to have the chance to entertain the audience on the big stage, but also to raise funds to help buy shoes, clothes, food, school supplies, and whatever else is needed to help the 1,702 homeless students in the Olympia, Tumwater, North Thurston, Yelm, Shelton, Tenino, Rochester, and Rainier school districts. A portion of the money we raise from ticket sales, sponsorships, and intermission donations will also go to Community Youth Services which helps the older youth who have dropped out of school, maybe runaway from home, and have nowhere else to turn for help. In five years we have given away $104,000 to the kids!

So please join us on February 26th at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts. We expect a sell-out, so get your tickets now. I guarantee it will be an entertaining show that you will be talking about for a long, long time. My dad, Bruce Schoengarth, was a television film and sound editor throughout the Golden Age of Television. So I am dedicating this show to his memory, and to that of the thousands of other talented individuals who worked behind the scenes to bring such fabulous television entertainment into our homes during the ’50s and ’60s. See you at the Shoe!

Scott Schoengarth
Producer, Creative Writer, Director
A Really Big Shoe Six

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