Babes in Hollywood: The Music of Garland and Rooney

The Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center is pleased to announce the next show in its Spirit of Discovery Summer Series held on its outdoor stage. Admission is free. The audience will be positioned in a grassy area of Center’s campus, so they are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets, as well as refreshments.

On Friday, June 7 and Saturday, June 8, at 7:00pm both nights, come delight in Babes in Hollywood: The Music of Garland and Rooney. The show itself is a celebration of the era’s rich popular music and of its re-creation by our talented company of singers.

The songs are a series of showstoppers. The show is a tribute not just to the enormous talents of the players but also to the two creator’s abilities and sensitivity. This is the summer show you deserve to see!

The opening number says it all, “That’s Entertainment.” Four hard-working young talents interchange the roles of Judy and Mickey beginning six and seven decades ago when they first stepped on the professional stage. Judy, pushed by an ambitious mother, and Mickey, the son of touring vaudevillians, find their separate ways to Hollywood where they would soon become America’s on-screen sweethearts. The show traces their careers through one standard after another with some connective narrative in between.

If your musical tastes run to old standbys, Babes in Hollywood will more than please your palate. There are 42 of them and almost as many costume changes from Johnny Mercer’s World War II hit, “On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe” to the slam-bang show’s finale “Grand Old Flag.” There is bound to be one or more tunes in this show that will touch a special chord in every theater-goer, regardless of age.