The Old School Variety Show offers a fall, holiday, winter and spring show to gather friends and newcomers to experience entertainment done old school. This means live acts highlighting music, theatre and storytelling. The spontaneity and freewheeling style of the variety show provides an ever-changing, organic entertainment experience. There are no rehearsals. Each show develops a rhythm of its own. Sometimes the performers come in with similar ideas about tone or content. They plan love songs for the February show or scary stories for the October show. The January show can be a toss-up. The show this month had a somber feel with 40 mph hour arctic wind gusts whistling by the windows. The Pearl sign outside the window creaked back and forth. There were songs of regret, there were wistful stories, there were challenging stories. And then there were some laughs. There was variety.
Front entrance to the Grand Hotel on Pearl Street.
Tara Jacquette opened the show on piano.
Ryan Hartkopf singing originals followed by a Dylan song...one of my husband's favorites.
Halie Becker performing Neil Labute's Medea Redux.
Eddie Allen, singer-songwriter, muse of the Driftless Area.
TerryVisger, founding member of La Crosse Storytelling Festival and an Old School regular.
Mike doing "The News from La Crosse Wisconsin"....local news done Garrison Keillor-style.
A warm and cozy bar, a place to connect with old friends and meet new ones and a parade of artistic talent on the stage in front of you. For more information about the show go to http://oldschoolvarietyshow.com/ or Like them on Facebook.
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Love the shows....a great way to beat the winter blahs! I'm trying to figure out if I can make it to LAX for the show and then return 10 days later for the organic conference :)
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