Our enterainment during dinner was The Swingtime Canteen USO-style show featuring Hampton, VA’s version of the Andrews Sisters.
The year is 1944. Marian Ames, a vibrant but fading movie legend has been providing the entertainment at The Hollywood Canteen with her all-girl band: long-time movie stand-in Jo Sterling on the clarinet, plumber turned piano player Topeka Abolelli, skittish niece Katie Gammersflugle on the bass, and the glamorous chorine Lilly McBain on the drums. When the chance comes to entertain the troops in London, they jump at the chance and the audience joins their story on an evening when they are participating in a live radio broadcast... |
