Piper's Opera House: Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone but Me
Submitted by Brett Fisher on Sat, 05/13/2017 - 7:54am
Celebrate spring at Piper’s Opera House with an USO-WWII “Big Band” Glenn Miller evening starring the Retro Dolls—Andrews Sisters; the Kiddos of Storey County Schools and a special guest appearance of Josephine Baker in the personage of Ms. Jakki Ford.
This all happens on Friday, May 19. Show time is 6 p.m.
The evening includes gourmet World War II hors d’oeuvres such as Spam Pâté and other K-Ration delights, beverages and a no-host bar.
Tickets are at lovingpipers.eventbrite.com or by calling Piper’s Opera House at 775.847-0433. Adults $10, kids $5, and families $20.
It’s a fundraiser with all proceeds to benefit the Scholarships to the Walt Disney Musical Theatre School in Anaheim.
Grammy—winning fusion-jazz pianist John Shipley (Hiroshima) will lead the Miller Band.
The sassy Retro Dolls, no strangers to Virginia City having performed as the Andrews Sisters: LaVerne, Maxine, and Patricia on numerous patriotic occasions, will belt out all the Andrews Sisters’ favorites.
Ms. Amanda Eddy Storey County School Band and Dance director’s troupe will sit with the brassy Glenn Miller Band and perform a number or two.
It will be “Josephine Baker’s” first visit to the Comstock. Baker was friends with Virginia Citians—Café Society boulevardiers Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg.
Baker became the singing sensation of the Follies Bergere during the forties, played a major role in the French Resistance during World War II working as a spy, and raised 12 children in the relative comfort of a French castle.
She also adored her pet cheetah “Chiquita” who was adorned with a diamond collar. She will perform the signature La Vie en Rose.
- $12
- adults
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- children
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